Cranfield's Curiosity Cabinet

23/08/2026

Full skull inside ✅
Thylacine ✅
One of only two heads in the world ✅
16th specimen in private hands ✅
Officially added to the “International Thylacine Specimen Database” ✅
Holy Grail ✅
International news ✅

Stay curious
James

P.S. it was a lovely long email, so I’ve edited it down to the salient points. We got that Wednesday evening 😎

22/08/2026

Swipe…

22/08/2026

It’s been 10 days…since I posted about buying a Holy Grail find.
It’s been ~125 years…since this specimen was created.
It’s been ~100 years…that this specimen has been considered a fox.
It’s been 90 years…since the thylacine went extinct.

It’s only a matter of hours until the first ever x-rays will shine light on what it actually is.
Keep your googly eyes peeled here on my grid.

Stay curious
James

22/08/2026

ready when you are.

21/08/2026

20/08/2026

The tatty, googly eyed taxidermy “fox” head that sold for £62,600, and has taken the world’s media by storm.

Is it real?
Is it a fox?
Is it a thylacine?
Is it a Tasmanian devil?
Is it a bush dog?
Is it a baby bear head cut off a full mount and put on a shield in the 1980s?
Is it a hoax?
Does it have its skull inside?
If the skull is inside, how complete it is?

We now have the answers.

Do I have egg on my face, or are there lots of delicious hats about to be eaten?

Comment below your thoughts!

20/08/2026

I’m so proud of this discovery.
The find of a lifetime, multiple lifetimes!
The Holy Grail of natural history collecting.

The media coverage is exhausting, and my apologies that my business has taken a back burner for a while. This is important. I want to share it with the world.
Thank you for following along.
Stay curious,
James

P.S. please note that the head is not on display, nor kept on my shop premises. Other than for media coverage, it remains in a safe in a secure location until such time that I am able to have it on display.

19/08/2026

It was 9.45pm here in the UK, but here is my live interview with Australian national TV show ABC News Breakfast.

19/08/2026

With the explosion of international news, and incredible media interest, it made me wonder what the Thylacine would actually make of all of this!
It’s fantastic that this historic and previously undocumented specimen is putting light on such a fascinating and enigmatic species that sadly went extinct 90 years ago.

18/08/2026

All the segments from this evening's ! How exciting!
Watched it with my family.
Thank you for the continued love and support, the messages have been overwhelming.
Stay curious
James and Francesca