no idea where to ask this, so serious answers please...or tell me where to post thanks

[joko]

I have found a bag full of vintage fur stoles and flattened dead foxes...they were obviously my nans and given to me in a bag of her stuff by my dad...i hadnt really looked in until now.

my nan was born in 1898...so they are probably pretty old...she died at 84 and didnt leave the house or walk for the last 40 or so...so obviously bought them when she was about 20-40-odd...1920s to 1940s

so my dilemma...i am a vegetarian and very much against fur...and i obviously dont want them...my first thought was to bin the disgusting things..then i remembered a shop over the road that sells vintage furs...and i thought...if i were to 'save' these ones and sell them to this shop...would i be in kind of preventing more animals being slaughtered?
i figure the more old ones available the less need for new ones...these are in very good nick, but not ''cool or trendy'' looking and essentially fur shawls or flattened dead foxes or whatver - which of course are not popular nowadays...

what do you think i should do? are they worth any money anyway?

thanks
(my other thought was to save them, as a i work as costume designer for films and imagine them not to be cheap...never needed to know before)

[Buenchico]

Sell them to the shop (or to anyone else who'll buy them).

Then donate the money here:
http://www.nfws.org.uk/

Chris

[NoMercy]

I doubt any charity shop would take them - but you could flog them on Ebay. Give the money to an animal charity ?

[grasscarp]

Since you live close to somewhere that deals in furs the best thing would be to take them there and get something for them if they are saleable. No, this does not stop any animals being killed in the future for their fur, but neither does throwing them away. These animals have already died and as their pelts have been treated amd fashioned to adorn human beings, in my opinion, that is where they should end up. If you throw them away it wont do any good to anyone, neither the environment or your pocket.

[askyourgran]

Makes me cringe to think women would wear them around their necks in those days.
My godmother had one with it's head on that she wore like a scarf. If they are in good condition they may be worth something, so go to the shop with them, you may as well get something for them, even though they are not in demand by women nowadays.

[joko]

thats a good idea to sell and donate..but do you think itd be 'encouraging'...??

although ... these are pretty horrible and no-one these days wears stuff like that i dont think

[grasscarp]

Joko, encouraging what? You dont know if you will be offered anything or not for them until you go and ask. You will either end up with something for them, or find out that they are unsaleable. The choice is yours - either sell them if possible or dump them.

[4getmenot]

agree with no mercy. did you see the lady on antques road show that had a carved rhino horn worth 15,000 and she sold it and gave all the money to help the rhinos