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Last week, weather-beaten, rawboned ranchers and plumpish, pale-faced fur buyers jampacked a downtown Manhattan show room to find the answer at the first auction of the new fur. After two tense hours, the answer was in. The new fur (trade name "Silverblu" platinum) had edged out Russian sable to become, for the nonce, the rarest, highest-priced fur in the world. The 2,500 pelts at auction had sold for $375,000. Cost of a silverblu coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FURS,PROFITS,FOREIGN TRADE: New King of Beasts | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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