Feb 17, 2014 2 min read

MARIETTA, Ohio (AP) — A black bear standing upright, some moose, wild boar and a chipmunk in a hollow tree limb are among 104 mounted animals for sale in an unusual auction in southeast Ohio.

The displays included in the Sunday auction came from the estate of avid Ohio hunter Frank Lamp of Dexter City, The Marietta Times reported.

Lamp, a sawmill owner, started having the animals mounted in the 1980s and displayed them at his home, where he added rooms to make space for them, said his daughter, Nancy Lamp. One room included a fireplace, a waterfall and a mountain lion he killed in Idaho and had mounted.

“He was just a common man who really loved to hunt,” she told the newspaper. Her father died last May at age 70.

His collection included deer, buffalo, foxes and a beaver.

“We’d never seen anything like this,” said Ed Williams, who runs the auction center in Oak Grove. “And just one of these large animals would have cost thousands to mount.”

Also displayed this week at the auction center was Lamp’s favorite hunting dog, named Boy. It accompanied its owner on pheasant hunts, and Lamp had his beloved dog mounted after it died in the 1980s, his daughter said.

She said many of the mounted creatures were killed by her father on trips to a private hunting property in Quebec, Canada, where she now works as a guide in the summers.

“He respected the animals and said he always thanked God for the animal after every kill,” she said, noting that he ate most of the animals and wasn’t wasteful.