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Guernsey Weekly Press, March 27, 1926.
A lady's fur coat composed of Sark rat skins, with collar and cuffs of skunk, has been an object of much admiration this winter. The skins are not unlike musquach, only much darker and smaller with long silky hairs outstanding, and have certainly made up into a garment of beauty and presumably much joy to the owner.