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Stuffed Plush
Polecat
Traditional
craftsmanship, attention to detail, and a sense for what is important.
Handmade in Germany by Kosen using the finest materials. |
19 Inches Long
Nose To Tail
Kosen
Stuffed Plush Polecat
KS5140
$104.50
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Soft toys from Bad Kösen,
the small health resort on the Saale, are something quite special and
valuable. They are distinguished by their natural and very
expressive design, their high play value and the extremely good quality
of material and workmanship. |
Important details are worked out with love and
care, and the faces get very realistic expression. Only the best
plush is selected. The animals are sewn together from up to 70
individual parts, turned, filled with high quality fibers, sewn up,
combed, embroidered and painted. Everything is pure handicraft. |
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Polecat -
any of several weasellike carnivores of the family Mustelidae (which
includes the weasel, mink, otter, and others). The pelt, especially of
the European polecat, is called fitch in the fur trade.
The European, or common,
polecat, also called foul marten
for its odour (Mustela, sometimes Putorius, putorius),
occurs in woodlands of Eurasia and North Africa. It weighs 1–3 pounds and is 14–21 inches long exclusive of the bushy
tail. Its long, coarse fur is brown above, black
below, and marked with yellowish patches on the face. Much lighter fur
distinguishes the masked, or steppe,
polecat (M. p. eversmanni) of Asia.
Principally terrestrial, the
polecat hunts at night, feeding
on small mammals and birds. It also eats snakes, lizards, frogs, fishes,
and eggs. The polecat is more
powerful than the marten but less active, and it rarely climbs trees.
Its litters of three to eight young are born in the spring after about
two months' gestation. The domestic, albino variety of the European
polecat is known as the ferret.
"polecat."
2006. Encyclopædia Britannica |
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