Skins

[comanche 3,038]

Foxdropper's gibbet picture makes me want to rummage in loft for some old photos. It wasn't that long ago a few rows of corpses dangling from a bit of barbed wire or baling string was de-rigueur to stop the boss thinking you just b*ggered-off home after throwing a bucket of corn on the rides twice a day.

Even in the 80s it wasn't exactly PC but I suspect these days camera technology has replaced the gibbet -maybe not entirely .

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Thanks for turning pics Paulus.

[nans pat 2,575]

think we got 12/15 quid for full fox in the 70s,n 50p live rabbits at the track then went till a pound now their asking 7quid till a 10er.lol

[shropshire mole 190]

 

Veniards , who sell fly tying eqp were paying 30p for top quality mole skins.

Mepps in the US are paying between 16 and 35 cents for squirrel tails depending on quality, but they give a better deal if you take lures instead.

That's the one!

 

Veniards still purchase dried mole skins - paying the handsome price of 20 pence each

Edited April 6, 2016 by shropshire mole

[Nicepix 5,650]

 

 

Veniards , who sell fly tying eqp were paying 30p for top quality mole skins.

Mepps in the US are paying between 16 and 35 cents for squirrel tails depending on quality, but they give a better deal if you take lures instead.

That's the one!

 

Veniards still purchase dried mole skins - paying the handsome price of 20 pence each

 

It costs you 55p to post it

 

 

 

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Anyone got a recent catologe to put up .

[shropshire mole 190]

yes, will put up in morning

[grompz 703]

just another name from the past that used to buy all sorts of pelts,was horace friend who always had his ad in exchange and mart,always paid good prices,dont know what happened tohim traded for a good few years.

[Tiercel 6,986]

just another name from the past that used to buy all sorts of pelts,was horace friend who always had his ad in exchange and mart,always paid good prices,dont know what happened tohim traded for a good few years.

There is a thread about Horace Friend on here somewhere, dam good read.

 

TC

Edited April 8, 2016 by tiercel

[shropshire mole 190]

Edited April 9, 2016 by shropshire mole

[Nicepix 5,650]

My old mate used to send his cured pelts off to a small firm of milliners in London back in the 70's. They used them to make bowler hats and he reckoned paid good money especially for winter skins.

[mackem 26,881]

There was a bit on Life below zero last night,the young tapper guy took a couple of fox pelts and a lynx pelt to a fur dealer,he got 60 dollars each for the red fox pelts,very thick pelts though as they were caught on the artic circle.