IDIdaho field entry
North Idaho Trading Company
Wallace, ID
A Wallace shop where antiques, jewelry, taxidermy, sporting collectibles, a mummified mermaid, an articulated skeleton, and more than 150 mounted animals turn ordinary browsing into a tiny roadside museum.
North Idaho Trading Company mixes antiques, jewelry, taxidermy, oddities, local-history collectibles and sporting merchandise in a downtown Wallace store that proudly calls itself the weirdest little shop in the Northwest.
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Why it belongs
Antique store, jewelry shop, taxidermy cabinet, oddities dealer, local-history collection, sporting-goods counter, collectible shop, and roadside curiosity museum.
The store's merchandise is strange enough, but its famous mermaid, skeleton and enormous taxidermy collection make browsing feel like admission-free roadside entertainment.
North Idaho Trading Company occupies a Bank Street storefront in historic Wallace and has built its identity around objects that are difficult to imagine sharing one shop. Current Wallace Chamber material describes antiques, jewelry, taxidermy, oddities and sporting merchandise alongside a six-foot mummified mermaid, a full articulated skeleton and more than 150 taxidermy pieces. The merchandise changes, but the governing idea stays consistent: if an object is old, unusual, collectible or difficult to explain, it has a chance of appearing here.
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What you will find
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Known for
- Weirdest Little Shop in the Northwest
- Mummified mermaid
- Articulated skeleton
- Large taxidermy collection
- Antiques
- Jewelry
- Oddities
- Local-history material
- Unusual collectibles
- Historic Wallace setting