Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — Monkey Skin Muffs. [ARTICLE]

Monkey Skin Muffs.

Muffs of monkey skin aro always much admired. This fur is really taken from the back of chimpanzees like the late Mr. Crowley, of New York. Five years ago they were almost unknown, and dealers on tho west coast of Africa bought them of the natives for sl..s'J a dozen, shipping them to London with instructions to make them up into driving glove* and offer them to the' trade, lint their peculiarly long block hairs for the monkey can scarcely be said to have a fur, at once won favor, and tho price went up so rapidly that agents at Sierra Leone fairly coined rnoney before the natives discovered the aJvance in values. But the animal from which this strange materia! is secured is comparatively rare in Africa, and exists nowhere else on the gicbe. A few years more and itionkov skins will be almost'as rare as blacks ables. —■- •- •—* - . . i ......