BOUNTY ON FOX 1950,S ???

[Guest ozzy]

What methods were used to preserve the pelts?salted down with salt from bucther when posting to england

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

i can remember back inthe eighties, pelts being sent down to cobbledicks, £25 for wet pelt, the lads also used to sell them in hertford mkt and get between £12 and £17 each, old jim tookey would buy them and sell them on.i reckon it all went tits up, when the antis kicked up about fur farming.

 

 

Yep all pelts sold wet, rolled onto brown paper, wrapped and sent by courrier. Dont know how they graded them but some you thought were ok, got less than a

tenner for, only the tip top fetched £25.

Before you posted mate i was going to let rip at those who obviously never sold a pelt in their lives .Pelts were/ are graded according to whether or not there is a moult line .The area of blue inside a pelt that indicates the moulting stage the animal was in prior to death .A large area indicated the fox was killed in the autumn when the winter coat is not quite entire .Pelts were frozen by the less scrupulous in an attempt to fool the furrier but moult lines cannot be got rid of no matter what you do .

A fox moults from back to front just out of interest and the best price was paid for full winter coats obviously .£31 was my best price for a vixen that looked like a small coyote.Snaring was by far the most productive with terrierwork more a sport with a sideline .Shot foxes were worth only basic £5 for patching .So there ,the low down from someone whos done it not read about it ,lol.Furs were salted wet and laid skin to skin ,fur to fur then repeated in 10sand then rolled in brown paper before posting .

Edited June 8, 2009 by foxdropper