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Ooh, can you post a photo of it please? It sounds rather lovely. Skull caps in the seventies were the height of bridal fashion.

Thank you for posting the photo. There’s nothing sad about it - such ephemeral items are part of our social history. I was fascinated to read (from the paper bag) that there was a branch of Grey’s in Stourbridge, which is where I now live. I shall now have to hunt down its location. I love a quest.

I think the shortage of money has always been a great problem for museums wanting to fund some of the less glamorous work, such as cataloguing and conservation. The thing is, if we don’t donate the ephemeral and unthought-of items, such as old catalogues, they will be lost forever.

Thank you!

Hello, this is my first post on this forum. I had the great pleasure of working in the Natural History Department of Birmingham‘s Museum and Art Gallery, briefly, some 30 plus years ago. The large crab referred to was actually a Spider Crab, and the stuffed tiger was a composite creature made...