Birmingham Oddities

TAKE NOTE-If you're offended by animals stuffed by taxidermy, ghoulish collections, or the macabre, this post isn't for you. 

Just a short walk down 23^rd Street and 1^st Avenue you’ll find the home of Birmingham Oddities.  Quirky, unusual, surprising might be  a few of the terms you’ll use among others when you step inside.

I learned from the shop keeper that the owner began his collection as a child with bugs, butterflies and the like. Later in life other items were added to the menagerie of curiosities.  After a while it grew so large that he needed a place to store them. He opened this shop to share and sell his collection. The owner is from Cullman but works in Birmingham as a prosthetist.

There won't be a lot of text to this post. Mostly, there will be pictures.

The bottles list names of potions such as zombie cure, graveyard dirt, coffin foam. BTW the  B&W canvas  behind the potions had a naughty word so I covered it up. To the right is a collection of animal skulls, teeth and laboratory specimens. They threw in a scary green head for color I guess.

Stuffed birds, fish, moose, horns, skulls etc.

What do you do with a collection of turtle shells? Of course you make a turtle shell purse. Notice the back is the back of the turtle shell and the front is the under body. It has a leather lining inside and a leather flap to close it. The leather fringe is a nice addition. The purse was only $38. No, I didn't buy it.

The jewelry consisted of various animal teeth, mouse skulls, bones, pendants with  contents unknown to me, ceramic , turtle shells, dune 😮??? and various orbs

A mannequin with two lit bulbous  light covers for breasts.

This speaks for itself

Specimens you might find in a school Science lab.

I was told that the designer of these dolls buys old dolls from the thrift store and redesigns them with red and yellow eyes, paints and dresses them  to create the scary effect you see here.

The woman in the shop says the owner is thinking of having a Krampus party or parade. People who are into the macabre, supernatural, and Halloween might find this an interesting place to visit and possibly buy some things of interest to them.

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