Help Identify: 1940s? Beth Lancaster Fur with Pockets

[DukeLakeFashion]

Hello and thank you for taking the time to help me.

Here is the information I have available:

• likely purchased in the 1940s
• label: Beth Lancaster
• location: Long Beach, CA
• previously a single hair was plucked and burned and it smelled of burning hair, not plastic

I do not know the type of interior construction and seaming, the fur type, etc.

I really appreciate any information you can share with me concerning this item as I am not a fur expert.

Thank you.

 

[poppysvintageclothing]

It is a grey mink stole and would be from the 1950s or early 1960s.

 

[DukeLakeFashion]

Thank you Mary Jane for your help.

 

[lkranieri]

FYI, from a 1977 article about the Lancasters: "Sixty years of marriage caused a celebration honoring George and Beth Lancaster. Beth was the owner of Beth Lancaster Furs in Long Beach for 32 years...I remember as a youngster going to her shop with my mother. I was not particularly "into" furs at that age but Beth had the most magnificent aquariums filled with exotic fish I had ever seen...George and Beth gave up their Long Beach home a few years ago when they built the mobile home park where they now reside (Cherokee Mobile Gardens in Anaheim)."

 

[DukeLakeFashion]

Thank you Lynne for sharing this information.

 

[Meredith Goodsell]

Hi, Beth was my grandmother. It certainly looks like one of her furs. The label looks to be authentic. She did beautiful work. I’m so happy to see someone continuing to enjoy them.