PLATYPUS SKIN RUG
DISCOVERY IN LONDON. Stored in a depository for more than 25 years, a valuable platypus rug lias been recovered by the owner and its sale may restore her lost fortune.
Fifty years ago a British peer, holding an important post in Australia, was presented with 42 perfect skins of the almost extinct duckbilled platypus. The owner of the furs —now in the form of a large rug—is a 2S-year-old woman aristocrat. When her mother died this survivor found that the slump of 1930 had
hviped out the family fortune. She got a job as a mother's help. Then she found among some papers a ticket for goods held in storage. They were deposited before the war and consist of the platypus skins. I Now this set of skins, ‘•unlike any other in the world,” and so rare that no expert will assess their value, awaits a buyer in Rondon.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1938, Page 3
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