Can a stop-rot treated fur pelt be sent as a "raw fur" to the fur auctions?
Or does it change the color of the leather permanently?
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Technically, it would no longer be "raw", but "in the process of".
If there should be a color change to leather as a result of using STOP-ROT, I would indeed like to hear about it, in full detail. I have yet to hear of a color change taking place.
To date, there has been no reports of incompatibilities with any of the existing acids, tans, oils, systems or techniques by either commercial tanneries or in-house tanners or dry preservative formulations.
With the amount of action STOP-ROT has seen on green-bellied carnivores, I just took it for granted and "assumed" the pelts were subsequntly sold on the fur market. I'll make a point to remember to ask the next time someone makes a comment via telephone or e-mail regarding the sale of the green-bellies on the fur market.
Say you flesh and then you are going to stretch and dry for the fur market. Once the skin is fleshed of all fat and is ready for the stretching board, stop-rot is applied to the face or ears or whatnot.
The fur auctions will severely downgrade any skin which has a color change in the leather. The call them 'stale' and 'damaged' and the person gets like $1 instead of like $50 from the pelt.
Once this has been applied to the leather of a fleshed skin, once the skin is dried on the board, is it the regular color for the species, or does it change?