Dear Rea:

Taylor Studios can fabricate any type of model for you, even an
anatomically correct soft sculpture of a west indian manatee.  Our
specialty is natural history related objects.  Please check out our web
page (our latest installation was models of life size, life like woolly
mammoth and Irish Elk) http://www.shout.net/~taylor .  If you E-mail
your complete address I'll send a brochure.  Please give me a call at
(800) 707-2047

Sincerely,

Betty Brennan
Taylor Studios, Inc.
P.O. Box 1063
145 County Road 2300 North
Mahomet, IL 61853
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RHEA TANNENBAUM wrote:
>
> Hey all!
>
> I'm looking for a company that can make an anatomically correct soft
> sculpture of a west indian manatee.  My boss saw one years ago at a
> conference in Maine and has been wanting one for our nature center
> ever since.  The sculpture he saw was sewn from various colors of
> naugahyde and had a zipper along the ventral side (from which the
> major organs, also rendered in naugahyde, could be removed for
> examination).
>
> Does anyone have any leads for me?  Thanks in advance.
>
> Rhea Tannenbaum
> Exhibits Coordinator
> Gumbo Limbo Nature Center
> Boca Raton, FL
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