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Oddities for Sale

Medical Oddities, Antique Taxidermy, and Vintage Curiosities

Here at Cult of Weird we’re always looking for the most unique and fascinating oddities for sale to help you complete your collection or fill that empty space in your cabinet of curiosities. We update this page regularly when we find new vintage weirdness to share, such as:

  • Medical oddities
  • Skulls
  • Taxidermy
  • Preserved insects
  • Wet specimens
  • Vintage funeral ephemera
  • Ouija boards and other occult objects

Whether you’re looking for the perfect weird gift or just something new for your shelves, these oddities and curiosities are sure you warm your dark little heart.

Victorian child's viewing coffin

Victorian Child’s Viewing Coffin

Antique Victorian infant viewing coffin made of cherry wood with glass panels and carved birds on top.

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Framed Deaths Head Moth as seen in Silence of the Lambs

Framed Deaths Head Moth

The Deaths Head moth (Acherontia atropos) is a large hawk moth with black, yellow and brown markings and a distinctive white spot that resembles a skull. Often the more skull-like the marking is, the more valuable the specimen will be. These moths gained notoriety for their appearance on the poster for Silence of the Lambs.

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Vintage Ouija boards for sale

1940s Mystic Soothsayer Vintage Ouija Board

There was a resurgence of interest in spiritualism and Eastern mysticism in the early 1940s, which lead to a brief boom in talking board production from a handful of companies producing their own unique designs.  This rare antique Ouija board from that era has a unique black design with art depicting astrological symbols. The original wood planchette is included.

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Glass terrarium Wardian case

Glass Terrarium Wardian Case

This real curved glass terrarium isn’t an antique, but the vintage Wardian case design evokes a 19th-century Victorian aesthetic that would make one hell of a unique cabinet for displaying skulls, taxidermy, and other various oddities and curiosities.

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Antique scarificator bloodletting quack medical device

Scarificator

A great example of an 1800s scarificator, a medical device also known as a fleam used for bloodletting. The handheld instrument has a lever that, when pulled, releases thirteen small blades which would pierce the patient’s skin. A must have for any medical oddities collection.

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Snake girl circus sideshow banner by J Sigler

Snake Girl Circus Sideshow Banner

An original circus sideshow banner from the 1960s or 70s featuring a Snake Girl freakshow act. The seller says the art is attributed to banner artist J. Sigler.

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Antique taxidermy bird in case

Antique Taxidermy Bird

A vintage kingfisher taxidermy study in a small diorama-style case.

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Hand with 6 fingers medical specimen

Articulated Hand with 6 Fingers

This articulated hand isn’t a real polydactyly specimen as it’s made of plastic, but it has a great patina. The wood base is perfect for displaying the hand in an antique medical case with other human oddities.

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Vintage hearse catalog salesman sample

Vintage Hearse Catalog

Some of the most interesting death collections include salesman samples – items a salesman would provide to undertakers to sell their products. These included miniature vaults and coffins, as well as hearse and gravestone catalogs. This particular pamphlet dates to the 1880s and includes illustrations on individual cards of the various horse-drawn funeral carriages the company manufactured.

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Antique deer taxidermy with atypical antlers

Deer Taxidermy with Atypical Antlers

An antique taxidermy deer head with abnormal antlers. This unique piece is mounted on a hand carved wood plaque. The seller estimates the mount to date back to around 1900.

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Meteorite specimen

Meteorite Specimen

A piece of real meteorite makes for an interesting story in any natural history case, but these fragments of the Campo del Cielo meteorite are particularly interesting. This space rock crashed into Argentina more than 4,000 years ago and spawned the indigenous peoples’ creation myth.

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Our Darling antique silverplate coffin plaque

Coffin Plaque

Coffin plates were popular from around 1840 to the early 1920s. These engraved metal plaques were typically displayed on the coffin lid during the funeral, or nearby beside a photo of the deceased. Then the casket was buried and the plaque went home with the family. Common inscriptions include “Our Darling,” “Mother,” “Father,” and “At Rest.”

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JM Simmons 1920s antique Ouija board

JM Simmons 1920s Antique Ouija Board

An original Chicago-made 1920s Ouija board with great patina. One of the more interesting features of this board is the inclusion of “au revoir” rather than “goodbye.”

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Common Questions

What are oddities?

An oddity is anything out-of-the-ordinary. But when referring specifically to curiosities and oddities shops, we’re referring to unusual items, usually antique, that we collect and display in the style of historical wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities.

Curiosity collections can consist of natural history specimens such as rocks, crystals, and fossils, medical oddities like quack medical devices from the past or preserved specimens of human oddities, spirit communication devices like vintage Ouija boards, antique mortuary tools like trocars and autopsy tables, human skulls, taxidermy and animal bones, circus history items like sideshow banners, and funeral ephemera including antique caskets, coffin screws, coffin plaques, post-mortem photos, and more.

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