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...Silverblu mink, the first commercially successful mutation, brought as much as $260 a pelt ten years ago. Now it is down to about $30. Sapphire, new two years ago, sold for as much as $110 when it first hit the market. Now, with production up from 30,000 to some 200,000 pelts in 1952, it averages about...
Police Protection. In Milwaukee, when Mrs. Helen Bohn complained that her furrier would not return her Silverblu mink to her, police arrested her for stealing the mink in the first place...
...coat into a $12-million annual business (I. J. Fox, Inc.) by some of the loudest publicity since Barnum; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. London-born son of a furrier, Fox pioneered in sky writing and singing commercials ("All Girls Are Beautiful"), introduced commercially some fabulous luxury furs (silverblu, platina), but did most of his business in installment sales of cheaper goods...
Back to Mendel. One of the men who blazed the new fur trail is the short, chunky president of the two-year-old Silverblu Platinum Mink Breeders Association, Larry Moore. Still in his 30s, Larry Moore has been breeding mink for 18 years. He used it to pay his way through an engineering course at Iowa State College at Ames. Soon he became more inter sted in mink than in engineering, switched to an animal husbandry course. Then he gave up college altogether: tak ing care of his mink left him little time for study. Having located an ideal...
...Wild silverblu mink are exceedingly rare. One furrier tried for ten years to collect enough for a single jacket. Domestic breeders, in whose litters they occasionally turn up, had been experimenting with them since 1931. But progress was small because furriers considered them worth less freaks and ranchers were ignorant of Mendel's laws of heredity. Larry Moore, who understood Mendel, persuaded other ranchers that the laws could be used to breed silverblus and dollars. Last week one bundle of Moore's furs brought the auc tion's top prices, $265 a skin, netting him over...