Fur Coat Help!

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Rachel Stevens

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Hello! I'm trying to figure out ANY info on this fur coat I found and I just don't know very much about furs or this type of jacket. I searched online to no avail and couldn't identify anything from the resources available here. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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Sorry. Didn't see Mary Jane's reply before I replied. We are both in unison though.
 
Rachel Stevens said:
Thanks! Any idea what time period it's from? Also, do y'all know what the button like thing is next to the label?
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It looks fairly modern to me. It could still be vintage, maybe 90's or so and the closure at the neckline is a hook and eye. They are the most common type of closure used to secure fur coats closed.
 
So after googling for what seems like forever I found a business card of Heinrich Pracht who had a fur business in Germany either Pracht Furs or Pelzwaren-Fabrik which he started in 1867 (same date on label) and mostly made hats until 1926. I went on to find out his son ran the business after that until 1949 when the widow, Erna Pracht, took over and mostly produced fur coats, jackets, capes, and trimmings until she died in 1972 and the business transferred to Gerhard Niebaum until the factory closed in 1981. So I'm 95% certain it's from before 1981, most likely sometime between 1949-72.

Sorry if that was way too much info! I just get really interested in all the history and a little obsessive about following clues...hahaha

I was wondering about the button type bobble on the bottom of the inside next to the label. It looks like it would be an extra button, but it's not the same as any of the buttons and there is nothing for it to connect to on the other side of the coat...any idea?
 
Rachel Stevens said:
So after googling for what seems like forever I found a business card of Heinrich Pracht who had a fur business in Germany either Pracht Furs or Pelzwaren-Fabrik which he started in 1867 (same date on label) and mostly made hats until 1926. I went on to find out his son ran the business after that until 1949 when the widow, Erna Pracht, took over and mostly produced fur coats, jackets, capes, and trimmings until she died in 1972 and the business transferred to Gerhard Niebaum until the factory closed in 1981. So I'm 95% certain it's from before 1981, most likely sometime between 1949-72.

Sorry if that was way too much info! I just get really interested in all the history and a little obsessive about following clues...hahaha

I was wondering about the button type bobble on the bottom of the inside next to the label. It looks like it would be an extra button, but it's not the same as any of the buttons and there is nothing for it to connect to on the other side of the coat...any idea?
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Don't feel sorry at all. You found information by researching which is awesome. We all research all the time and continue to learn everyday.

I borrowed the following information from wikimedia which provided a bit more insight -

The company Pracht was founded in 1867 by the skinning master Heinrich Pracht in Herford. Since 1910 he also manufactured fur clothing and sold furs in wholesale to fashion houses, furrier customers u. a.

Good viable models, predominantly made of curly skins, in coats and paletots, formed the main manufacturing program of the company, which employed fifty people in 1963. Added to this was small-scale clothing such as stoles, necklaces and collars.

When models are sold to fashion houses and furriers they are done so like patterns for them to use as guides and then they are allowed to use the labels too. With this being said they could have used the labels after the closing of the Pracht business and likely were.

With this information I could actually see this going back a bit further than the 90s. If it was part of a skirt suit it could date as far back as the late 70s to early 80s depending on the shape of the skirt. Based on the style of this jacket though it cannot date any earlier than that. In fact I did see a late 70s coat that had this label in it as well.

I cannot explain the button in the bottom of the jacket. I would normally think it was a replacement button but being it doesn't match and if it doesn't have a button hole on the other side I don't know what it's for.
 
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