A Victorian taxidermy case is parlour furniture first and natural history second: French-polished mahogany, ebonised beading, a glazed front, and a specimen standing on baize above shallow drawers. Rowland Ward sold them from Piccadilly, Walter Potter filled them with anthropomorphic tableaux, and Edward Booth built curved painted skies behind Brighton birds.

This system takes that construction literally. Everything is mounted, standing, or filed — never floating. Type is letterpress and copperplate, gilt lettering sits on dark timber, and depth comes from a lit top and a dark floor rather than from a drop shadow under a card.