- Advertising sign by Weber
Lifelike Fly Company of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, with a skin
mount of a Brook Trout. A “skin mount” (also
referred to as a “Mezzo mount”) was made using the
outer skin of one side of a fish which was secured to a board
or other background. The technique appears to have been developed
(or at least first used commercially) by taxidermist John Waldo
Nash of Maine at the very beginning of the 20th century. The
Weber Company later employed similar mounts on their advertising
signs. These signs were sold or given to tackle shops advertising
flies and lures made by the company. The company was founded
in 1921 and these signs, which are now quite rare, probably date
to the 20’s – 30’s given that the only other such
sign we have seen had a sticker on the back indicating that it
cost $3.50 to order one. This sign has some expected loss
and damage, but is stable and still displays very well. Trout
is 20" L and frame is 27" L x 10" H. (CD-27)
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