There used to be a curiosity shop in Newquay, Cornwall that was just the most spectacular kooky place ever. Called Puff edz, It sadly closed a few years ago, when the owner moved abroad. It was full of real skulls. from human down to rat, and had cabinet after cabinet of jars. Worthy of note were a human nose, eye and ear, bottles of snake wine, real shrunken heads and bound, pointy human skulls. After visiting four times in four years, I set my own curiosity table in my house, with old religious statues, a human skull (which I'm still considering making into a one eyed willy tee hee) a human femur, various taxidermy eyeballs, various dried lizards, moles and other random things that I have bought and had donated from friends. I still want to make a gris gris pouch and build a feegee mermaid at some point and am always on the lookout for a cheap old school glass cabinet to complete the look. Have a search of cryptozoology sites and you can really go to town. And the mix of real artifacts and built hokum props can give it a real barnum type feeling to it. If I can help in anyway, holler. I could talk about this stuff till everyone else in the rooms' heads explode :lol
p.s there is an awesome shop on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, LA, that is brilliant for this sort of stuff, just search for necromance, Hollywood. I literally had to be pulled away from the shop everytime I walked past it:lol
