A buddy just dropped by a piece of fur he told me about finding some time ago when a friend's cabin flooded... I had not thought much about it because flooded rugs do not usually lead to good tying materials.

And 50-year-old rugs have usually been stained and the hair ruined, before any chance for the flood to do the job.

Shocked! It is 80+ square inches of beautiful white fluffy polar bear! To be legal the bear had to have been taken prior to the 1972 Marine Mammals Protection Act. And there is paperwork showing when it was and when the rug was made. I often get offers to buy polar bear, both legal and not, but most is not worth the effort and illegal stuff is absolutely never considered...