40 FUR FACTS 



a clean white color like the inside of a white kid glove. If the fox 

 has been dyed the pelt will be like the inside of a brown kid glove; 

 the leather will be the same color as the dye. This test applies 

 to nearly every fur with the exception of Alaska seal, and the pelt 

 of the Alaska seal is so thick that after it is dyed it is sand papered 

 down until the color on the pelt side is sand papered off, leaving the 

 white leather exposed. This can not be done successfully with thin 

 pelted furs so that if there is a question about judging the skin as 

 to whether it is dyed or not, the color of the pelt test will usually 

 settle all argument. This does not apply, however, to blended furs, 

 that is, furs that are tinted by the feather dye process described in 

 another chapter. 



