See Jane. See Jane Come to Cleveland Pt. 1

Last Wednesday, David Chapman, the CMNH Casting Technician, and I drove up to Beamsville, Ontario to pick up the ‘Jane’ mount that Research Casting International (RCI) produced for us. The CMNH acquired this mount through an exchange of cast material with the Burpee Museum who have the original skeleton.

Jane will go on display with Sue the T. rex from the Field Museum when that touring exhibit opens up at the CMNH Nov. 11, 2006. After that Jane will find a permanent place among our museum’s displays.


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To bring back our new dinosaur we rented a 17ft. U-haul van. Alas, this was not the one we took but ours did have an illo of some giant mushrooms reminiscent of the scene in the 1960 Version of The Lost World.


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Here’s a shot of part of their work area. That’s a bronze T. rex in the background and our unpainted Jane mount is in the lower left.


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David Chapman checks out another Jane mount that RCI was building they day we arrived.


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A close up of the bronze T. rex skull for comparison.


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Another shot of the bronze T. rex mount.


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Jane gets loaded in the van.


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Outside of the RCI building is a cast of the AMNH’s ‘Turtle Stone’.


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Another side of the stone.