I must get one of these for DB for Xmas. Anyone know where I can get one?
Skeleton of conjoined twins
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Sometimes two heads really are better than one.
Easy, you usually find them in the closet :p
I saw one exactly like this in a *weird* shop in Hackney yesterday – http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/
Here’s a picture… http://www.flickr.com/photos/northover/4436111216/
wow
AAARRGHHH!
No, sorry, that was cruel. Poor things.
I do know actually! and similar other curiosities!
you can get that at the mutter museum in philadelphia, USA…
Try Viktor Wynd’s Little Shop of Horrors in Bethnal Green… I’m sure they had one there…
http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/shopevents.html
You could grow one but it’ll take about 9 months and its a bit hit and mis weather it’ll come out the way you want it.
http://www.eightcornerglobe.com
If they don’t have one, they’ll find one for you ….
http://www.eightcornerglobe.com
If they don’t have one, they’ll know where to find you one ….
It’s like if you put half your head through a x-ray mirror this is what you would possibly see.
Two possible collections spring to mind. First the Welcome Institute in Old Holborn… a medical museum exclusive to those studying medicine.
Upstairs it’s a straightforward disected cadavres in formaldehyde affair, but downstairs it’s more like a macabre Victorian freakshow, repleate with mutations, diseased specimens, syphilitic skulls, the account of a convict’s execution bound in his own skin and a mockup of someone’s parasitic twin.
Almost worth a visit just to see a cabinet filled with nothing but severed male members in specimen jars
The other one is “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” in Blackpool which is a latter-day PT Barnumesque experience with stuffed two faced animals. I literally saw a two faced cow there yesterday!
Now that’s a work of art! Maybe one of the team could do a recycled paper mache, or lego.
Came in here to post exactly what RIchard did. Those guys have everything. They even have a dead bear cub, which I petted lovingly.
Does he need anymore dead things in his place !
How very sad. It would be terrible to have been that/those person/people. Then to be exhibited as entertainment when you die?
Is there no release?
@Voiceofreason. They are dead, and beautiful. They are not suffering. Science can use this specimen and others like it to show how complex and also simple we really are.
As these appear to be the joint skeletons of two infants, I think they didn’t suffer much before they died. It’s probably a replica, but it looks like a 19th century model, in which case I doubt either the infants or the mother survived the birth.
Also, I seriously doubt whether a skeleton has any feelings, so I’d wager a guess that these remains don’t much mind being on display.
If you can’t get that, you could always go for one of THESE…
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v193/mosurades/2headedchick.jpg
I agree they have no feelings anymore but….would you like if someone would purchase your beloved one like this and put on their mantelpiece to show everyone how “gothick” and “edgy” they are? Pathetic!
You could ask either Madame Talbot or The Space Cowboy, they both collect these kinds of old sideshow oddities. They know which ones are gaffs, they’re used to collecting the genuine article. Keep up the great work
p.s, the links are: http://www.madametalbot.com/
and http://www.thespacecowboy.com.au/
Funny how it’s a “skeleton”, tacitly and morbidly underlining high-fatality rate of conjoined twins. That morose thought aside, it’s wild to look at the skeleton and think…really….that COULD pass for one person!! What constitutes “two people” or “one person with slightly elongated, partially doubled anatomical extensions”? Fascinating!! How many people am i? lol.
My comment is long but worth considering: This condition is very rare. Nevertheless, it does happen. For the sake of those families who happen to have lost children like these–daughters or sons, sisters or brothers whom they loved, were so excited to meet and then were devastated to lose–please be careful to keep you comments kind. Don’t forget that these twins are REAL PEOPLE born of REAL parents who looked forward to having a child. It is crushing to find out that your pregnancy will end in a funeral with a very tiny casket. Trust me–I know. So, before you post something, imagine someone who had just found out that they were carrying twins like these, reading your post. Be sure you don’t write something that would make them feel worse. Thanks for taking the time to read this.