Show THE LONDON FUR MARKET I A New Discovery in the Production of Imitation Sealskin Though London Is the great distributing market of the world to which the finest furs are sent for tor sale Its work In the dressing and up making of ot skins Is Jar far behind behind be be- hind Ind those of Paris or Berlin and It Is to those ca capitals that fastidious buyers turn for tor the finest manipulation With the decay decay decay de de- de- de cay of the system and the In Influx Influx influx In- In flux of only partially skilled alien labor It has for several years been beim difficult for fora a a. lad or girl to learn the highest branches of ol what really is a well-paid well and Important Important Import Import- ant craft Various suggestions have been put forward by those Interested in the trade as to the best besl means of training expert workers and the Furriers' Furriers association asso asso- a a body of gentlemen representing the leading wholesale fur firms of ot the city has city has enlisted the collaboration of the Northampton Polytechnic institute Is Islington Islington Is- Is lington to open a a. course of evening lectures lectures lectures lec lec- tures and practical Instruction A competent competent com com- teacher teacher has been secured the fees Ices have have been fixed at at an extremely low figure and It Is hoped that an important step will be taken toward enabling the metropolis to compete fairly with her continental rivals The experiment has a particular Interest interest inter Inter- est eat at the present moment In view of I what Is likely to be a notable feature In Inthe Inthe inthe the seasons season's fur fashions and this is the extraordinary perfection to which the treatment of dyeing of the musquash or muskrat skin has now been To the ordinary mind the mention of this Pelt merely conjures up a vision of ot cheap drab-colored drab Jackets with collars looking like rabbit or very Inferior beav beaver r. r But it does not require a long memory to recall recall recall re re- re- re call how three or four years ago ordinary ordinary ordinary nary rabbit was transfigured Into electric electric electric elec seal by means of marvelously delicate delicate deli deli- delicate cate processes which removed the longer coarser hairs giving fullness and separation separation tion to the finer ones left and clever gradation gradation gra dation of ot coloring as seen In the true Alaska skin These arts have now been applied to the musquash and it repays the treatment even better Indeed at first sight it is difficult to distinguish it from the rarer skin so thick and soft isIt Is It Already It U Is to be found made up Inthe in inthe inthe the latest shapes with costly accessories of richest satin linings and trimmings and West Vest End houses are showing It in inthe inthe inthe the form of mantles at prices as high as BO 40 for the cost and process makes the fur somewhat heavy Canadian seal is the trade name applied to It when It imitates imitates imi imi- tates sealskin but when cunningly dy dyed d to shades o of brown it becomes sable and Is scarcely less successful under un un- der this name None of this treatment is done as yet In this country but is exe- exe g reed te ur gIrn Irn Irnel el in France where fur dyeing g In improving Im Improving im- im proving every year Kolinsky for Instance In ire- stance In Its natural coloring is a yellow and poorly-colored poorly type pf sable yet after after af af- af- af ter Parisian manipulation it becomes al almost almost al- al most Impossible to distinguish it from the very finest Russian skins of this choicest of all furs and upon It can be conferred even that Indefinable bloom long supposed long supposed to be the decisive proof of ot the genuine type London London Telegraph |