by MOAPH | Apr 15, 2026 | Homepage, Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Singing Canary Guarantee Certificate 1962 A singing canary guarantee certificate from the W.T. Grant Department Store in...
by MOAPH | Feb 11, 2026 | Pet Find of the Month, Pet Historical Images
Back to Gallery Victorian Image of a Woman in Edinburgh with Canaries A Victorian Stereoview image of a woman on the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland, selling pet birds (canaries?). Notice she is knitting to pass the time until another customer comes along. An 1890s era...
by MOAPH | Jun 6, 2025 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Spratt’s “Sing-Song” Box This beautifully illustrated box would have held 12 small boxes of Spratt’s Sing-Song Food from the 1920s. Some pet store owner must have also thought this box illustration was beautiful, as it has been...
by MOAPH | Apr 11, 2025 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Illusion Bird cage MOAPH recently acquired a rare “Illusion Bird Cage” made in Holland around 1850-1875. The fish bowl on top of the cage is in 2 parts, so the canary can fly into the smaller inner bowl with the fish swimming around him in...
by MOAPH | Mar 7, 2025 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Bird Cage Fishbowl Combo This rare “Bird Cage/ Fishbowl” combo was painted yellow (not original), so we changed it back to its original brass-plated color. Made in 1887 by the O. Lindemann & Co. of New York. This is the only example of...
by MOAPH | Feb 1, 2025 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Maxwell Mica Bird Cage Maxwell Mica Bird Cage from the museum collection. “Mica” is a 2-dimensional silicate material. This cage was featured in Maxwell’s 1849 catalog and was listed to come in two colors, amber and green. The cage in...
by MOAPH | Jan 10, 2025 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Spratt’s Bird Foods & Parrot Mixture Sign Sign made by Spratt’s showing off several of their products designed for a feed or pet store. You can watch the 5 minute video where we opened this sign here: Watch...
by MOAPH | Jan 10, 2025 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery R. Hyde & Co. Egg Food for Canaries Sign Sign made by R. Hyde & Co. for their Egg Food for Canaries. R. Hyde was a big bird food manufacturer in England in the 1800s. Sign possibly made in the 1860s-1880s. You can watch the 5 minute video...
by MOAPH | Sep 6, 2024 | Pet Find of the Month, Pet Historical Images
Back to Gallery Girl with J.W. Fiske Aquarium Incredibly rare photograph of a young girl looking into a J.W. Fiske Aquarium in the...
by MOAPH | Jun 10, 2024 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Rare Glass Slides from the 1800s Rare glass slides from the 1800s. Girl with a cage full of what appears to be mice. The Royal Aquarium (England), torn down in 1903. Spratt’s Biscuits dog advertising glass slide. Woman with bird cage –...
by MOAPH | May 10, 2024 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Kordon Mod Filter After Kordon was no longer the distribution arm in the U.S. for the German-made Eheim aquarium filters, they decided to design and manufacture their own canister filter called the Mod-Four in 1974. Notice they called this filter the...
by MOAPH | Sep 8, 2023 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Zenith Aquarium...
by MOAPH | Aug 4, 2023 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery South Sea Aquarium One of the earliest “plastic” aquariums that was used as a promotional give-away. This modern design led to Will-Ness and Metaframe making similar larger-sized plastic aquariums in the same shape. Also, Pemco and Metaframe made an...
by MOAPH | May 4, 2023 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery 1960s Pam’s Parakeet...
by MOAPH | May 4, 2023 | Pet Find of the Month
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by MOAPH | Feb 4, 2023 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Fitzsimmon’s Bird Gravel Rare metal can Bird Gravel container for “Fitzsimmon’s Bird Gravel”, manufactured in South Brooklyn, New York. Uncommon late 1800s metal bird gravel...
by MOAPH | Feb 4, 2023 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Eclipse Bird Food Rare paper tube birdseed container from the 1920s or before. Most of these did not survive the test of time being they were in paper cardboard tubes and very fragile. The graphics on all the Victorian era paper tube bird food...
by MOAPH | Feb 4, 2023 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Parakeet Leash Thin brass chain (leash) with parakeet emblem and small plastic clip. 1960s era and uncommon, but it shows how bird keepers found interesting ways to connect with their pet...
by MOAPH | Sep 6, 2022 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Hard Hammered Copper Aquarium from the 1920s The Museum of Aquarium and Pet History is offered many historical pet artifacts from time to time. Some we purchase and some we don’t. (And some are donated to the museum). When we first saw this...
by MOAPH | Jul 8, 2022 | Pet Find of the Month
Back to Gallery Parlor Aquarium Since our friend Emiliano wrote a wonderful article this month on Parlor Aquariums I thought we would showcase a recent acquisition of an American-made Parlor Aquarium. We are not sure which iron foundry made this small 12-gallon size...
by MOAPH | May 1, 2022 | Pet Find of the Month
E-Z Dog Dryer by the Postcraft Company If you ever dreamed of pampering your pup with a spa-like experience, then our Pet Find of the Month will resonate with you. The E-Z Dog Dryer is a salon experience in a box for your furry friend. This professional styling system...
