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The Victorian Taxidermist, Murray of Carnforth

The business of Murray was established in 1872 by Henry Murray working from premises in Scotland Road, Carnforth and continued with his son Albert Jamesuntil Albert retired in 1961. Murray's work was of the highest quality renowned for their picture frame cases with beautifully painted "oil" backdrops, mainly for the private/commercial market.
Less often seen but just as spectacular were all glass cases containing single, pairs or family groups of taxidermy specimens, Kendal Museum has arguably the finest taxidermy collection of such cases, among others, as the bulk of the Museum's taxidermy is by Murray of Carnforth. They also excelled in hunting trophies being kept busy by all the local hunts.
As I am currently writing a book about the Victorian taxidermist Murray any information on Murray etc. would be very welcome, I also specialise in renovating picture frame cases however badly damaged.We are also always interested in purchasing examples of work by this taxidermist. His work includes Game Heads, Cased Mammals and of course Cased birds. Just for interest, Kendal Museum, Cumbria has one of the few Thylacine specimens (Tazmanian Wolf, which is now extinct) held by a British museum. The museum has very little information on this individual specimen. It was donated in 1939 by a Dr Parker, and was cased by H. Murray of Carnforth.

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