Kingdom.]
SKINS, FUR, AND HAIR.Areas G. H. I. J. 10 to 14.
529
284 Randall & Dicks, 21 Greek Street, Soho —Manufacturers.
Skins for oil leatlier, in raw state and in various stagesof manufacture. Buck, doe, calf, slieep, and lamb skins,finished; with specimens in breeches, gloves, braces, andpianoforte hammers.
285 Pullman, R, W. & J., 17 Greek Street, Soho —Manufacturers.
# Specimens of oil leather in various stages of dressing,viz., buck, doe, fawn, buffalo, calf, sheep, and lamb skins.
[The process of oil or chamois leather dressing, as prac-tised in England, consists in beating fish oil into the poresof the skin, and afterwards partially drying or oxygenatingthe oil. When the skin is perfectly saturated by the re-peated process of hammering in the mill, and partialdrying, it is allowed to become hot by natural fermenta-tion, and then, by washing in strong alkali, becomes thesoftest and most pliable of all kinds of leather.]
286 Oasti.er & Palmer, Grange Road, Bermondsey —Manufacturers.
Japanned border, bag, horse, and split hides. Black, 1green, blue, drab, maroon, crimson, and brown ena-melled hides. The border hide is manufactured fromthe hide of an ox, being (as far as practicable) left thewhole thickness; the other hides (with the exception ofthe horse) are the same desciiption of hide, split by ma-chine to any required thickness; thus making two, whereasformerly the hide had to be shaved to the proper thick-ness by manual labour.
The japanned split hide shows the flesh side curriedand japanned for coach purposes.
288 Jackson, Robt. B., 9 Hampstead Si., Fitzroy Square
—Inventor. 1
New mode of cleaning and restoring worn and decayedMorocco leather, forupholsterypurposes, coachlinings, &c.
289 George, Joseph, 81 Dean Street, Soho —
Manufacturer.
Gilt and painted leather, capable of being made of anywidth and length, for the hangings of rooms, screens, &c. |"Various specimens of ornamental leather, borderingsfor table-tops, edges of book-shelves, covering furniture, Ihassocks, &c.
Embossed and gilt leather, of different lengths, forthe hangings of rooms, screens, &c., in every variety ofstyle.
290 Dixon & Whiting, Manning Street , Bennondsey —Manufacturers.
Samples of enamelled, japanned, and coloured hides;among which is one of the largest hide splits, curried;and also a hide split into three, the grain enamelled, andthe two splits japanned. |
[The machine by which a skin is split into two or threeportions is of beautiful and ingenious construction. Itconsists essentially of two grooved rollers, which seize theskin and present it to the edge of a rapidly-moving hori-zontal knife, by which it is speedily split into halves.The relative thickness of the halves can be adjusted byftet-serows.l
297 Tomes, E., Theberton Street, Islington^- Producer.English calf skin.
298 Branscombe, S., Liverpool —Manufacturer.
Tanned buffalo hides, imported into London in a salted
state from the Cape of Good Hope , in 1847, and tannedat Lynn, in Cheshire.
299 Heintze, L., 1 School Lane, Liverpool —Importer.Black japanned calf-skins, tanned and prepared .by
Heintze and Freudenberg, "VVeinbeim, near Mannbeim,on the Rhine.
300 Brown, A., Milsom Street, Bath — Inventor.
Peruke, manufactured without stitching.
301 Hudson’s Bay Company — Producers .
(Main Avenue West.')
Specimens of skins from.the Arctic Regions, belongingto the Hudson’s Bay Company , selected for the Exhibitionfrom their importation of 1851; prepared and arranged bythe exhibitors, from No. 1 to No. 27.
[The immense tracts of country over which the Hudson’sBay Company has control may be considered as vasthunting-grounds, affording a varied and exhaustless sup-ply of furs. The territorial possessions of this Companycover nearly one-eightli of the habitable globe. Russia is next in order and importance in this respect, but witha different race of animals. The fur produce of NorthAmerica and the Canadas is also important. As we ap-I proach the tropics and the warmer regions, the silkyfur with which the animals are clothed in the northernclimes disappears, and fur of a totally different characteris met with, which, although splendid in appearance, isnot adapted for warmth or general use.
Table of Imports and Exports.
Total
Importation
into
England.
(
Exported.
Consumed
in
England.
525,000
525,000
None.
60,000
12,000
48,000
85,000
30,000
55,000
9,500
8,000
1,500
11,000
11,000
None.
50,000
50,000
None.
4,500
4,500
None.
1,000
1,000
None.
1,500
500
1,000
20,000
18*000
2,000
55,000
50,000
5,000
120,000
15,000
105,000
245,000
75,000
170,000
Musquash..
1,000,000
150,060
850,000
17,500
17,500
None.
Fur seal.. .
15,000
12,500
2,500
Wolf.. . . .
15,000
15,000
None.
European Furs.
Imported.
set-scrows.]
293
Martin, Stone, and Baum .Squirrel
Fitch.
Kolinski . ..
Ermine.
Boutchier, Mortimer, & Co., Bermondsey-Proprietors and Leather Factors.
Hides, leather, and tanning materials.
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294 Bossard, John, 7 Church Street, Russell Street,Bermondsey— Manufacturer.
British calf skins, tanned and dressed (Paris and Bor'deaux fashion), with oak bark and other English ingredients.
Boot fronts from similar skins, blocked and finished.
120,0002*271,25865,09153,410187*104
Exported.
(Consumed
in
England.
5,000
77,160
28,276
200
None.
115,000
2,194,098
36,815
53,210
187,104
—J. A. N.]
1. Group of black and silver foxes (Vulpis fulvis, var.Argentatus).
2. Group of foxes (Vulpis fulvis, var. Decussatus).
3. Group of red and silver foxes ( Vulpis fulvis).
4. ,, ■white ,, (Vulpis lagopus).
5. ,, kitt ,, (Vulpis velox).
[The black and silver fox is the most valuable of bistribe-, they are generally purchased for the Russian and
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