Need help identifying Fur Coat

Greetings all! So thrilled to find a forum for these things. My mother-in-law recently passed and we came across this beautiful coat while going through her belongings. I know nothing about them and any help with identifying and suggesting a sale price would be much appreciated. We are in Florida where these coats, while gorgeous, aren’t typically worn. Thank you in advance!!

 

coyote.......?

 

And I was thinking Racoon.....but not quite sure!

Hi Kerik!

Welcome to Antiquers.........

 

I vote for raccoon too - at least part of it. There may be 2 different animals involved.

 

Coon..!

 

Sniped by everyone else who typed "raccoon" faster than I could!

 

It looks very 70s . No offense but that thing is ugly ! Im not anti fur either !

 

Agreed^^

 

I suggest you take a couple shots of the lining and a label and post 'em up here to be sure you don't have a designer raccoon coat, and if not, well, you can post it up on ebay etsy or craigslist for sale.

 

You guys sure about raccoon? Markings are weird to me but I’m no fur expert but it reminds me a lot of a tanuki coat I had in the 70s which was a Japanese animal in the raccoon family but not like American raccoon. I could be totally off but I remember mine as being very feathery like this one.

 

oriental raccoon ? = nothing would surprise me! Thanks, Reader!

 

Well, here are a couple of the pictures right side up!!!

 

Tanuki was huge in the 70s and 80s but the back of that jacket doesn’t look like tanuki to me. I honestly don’t know what it is. I’d send pics to a furrier if there’s no one to easily take it to.

 

Just looked on a larger screen. It’s all pieced? Can you look under the lining?

 

I'd suggest you donate it to a homeless shelter. Could keep someone warm and detract from the glamour. Help make "compassion the new fashion".
https://www.humanesociety.org/all-our-fights/going-fur-free

 

And that’s all fine and good-I don’t disagree that’s a lovely thing to do but there are many (and I’m one) that think wearing preowned fur is an environmentally correct thing to do for those that live in bitter climates. Nothing will bring a dead animal back and no animal should ever be killed again for its skin other than by native people whose existence is dependent on those animals. There’s enough preowned fur on this planet to rework and wear for many many generations to come

Sorry but I think wearing petroleum based synthetic fibers which pollute our planet and fill our earth is an unacceptable alternative for warmth.

If the owner of the coat wants to donate it, again, that’s lovely but if they want to sell it, IMO that’s fine too. It’s their coat.

 

I had a reasonably priced coat of pieced Norwegian fox in the late 1970s thru the early 80s. It looked very much like pictured here. When the skins dried out they separated and shed something terrible. It was donated to the local SBCA where it kept som poor unfortunate puppies alive I imagine.

 

That’s a great thing to do with rotted fur. I do the same. If you can pull out more than 5 hairs with gentle pressure on pretty much any fur beside rabbit IMO the piece is gone and donation to a shelter makes sense.

 

I do not know anything about furs, but it doesn't look like raccoon to me. Have you tried taking it to a local fur shop? I took a fur that we had to a local fur shop and they were able to identify the type of fur immediately at no charge.