TRANS AFRICAN TAXIDERMISTS

Established in 1948 by Gerald and his son Winston Harding Kretzchmar, Trans African Taxidermists was the first commercial taxidermy studio to open in Africa. In those days in South Africa, commercial hunting was reserved for the game skin suppliers of Europe and mainly foreign Big Game Hunters. The average local game rancher would only ever hunt for the pot and so the art of taxidermy was little known in this part of the world... Established in 1948 in Johannesburg South Africa, Trans African Taxidermists' legacy is steeped in trail-blazing history and that same ethos lives on in this family-run business today.