I used to have a coat just like that when I was a little girl. Now I am anti-fur. But that doesn't change the fact that it is beautiful, and you will probably get a pretty penny for it.
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I used to have a coat just like that when I was a little girl. Now I am anti-fur. But that doesn't change the fact that it is beautiful, and you will probably get a pretty penny for it.
Real fur - not such a good move me thinksLooks great on the animals but not on a human!
I look at it this way: I wouldn't buy a new fur coat, but these animals would not be alive now anyway...
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What size is it please ????
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It won't fit you, huddy
Might fit LucyIt won't fit you, huddy
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Very interesting to think about selling that coat. I wonder if it would be most likely to sell to a museum or collector. I wonder if your daughter, who I assume is Lucy, Huddy, would get grief from anybody if she wore it in public. I also feel like Meebo that the rabbits are long dead and the coat is one way their contribution to life carries on.
In the late 1960s I inherited a fur coat from a great aunt. It was WAY out of style even then. But I was living in a very cold area, and poor enough that I appreciated having a new-to-me coat, and discovered real fur was much warmer than the faux fur or fabric coats available then.
A young child might actually enjoy wearing the coat and thinking she's playing bunny rabbit, and can wait a few years to consider the facts of life that produced the coat.
I do understand - they have been a 'long time dead' but their death would have probably been nicer if they hadn't had their necks broken to provide a coat. Though in days gone by people didn't see things like that did they. These rabbits were probably eaten too so the fur was just a bi-product then not to be wasted. Just as leather is most of the time today. It is sad today that snowy white rabbits are used just for their fur when we have so many great fabrics now which are just as good, and sometimes look so like the real thing that i have to have a really, really good look
I think a museum or a collector would be a really good idea. Years ago i shunned a fur stole at a market, made from an animal that was unrecognisable to me and my friend who is very diplomatic said that it was about 70 years old and it may be the only way to see animals like that nowadays as most of them have gone. So a side to everything i suppose.
I was only joking when I said i'd put my daughter in it, her mother would never let me lol ,shes a designer label girl is my Lucy.
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yes - rabbit/coney fur was indeed a by-product of the meat industry - now you can hardly find rabbit to buy anywhere!
These coats, along with 1960s and earlier capes, evening wraps, and shortie jackets sell well at antiques/collectors' fairs - so I don't see any problem selling it on here.
At an antiques fair it would probably go for between £25-£35 according to condition.
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