Artifact???

[Eagle1]

Thomas depo:
5 Q. You don't want me to go there.
6 The -- as I understand it, there was a
7 beaver hair, what was identified as a beaver
8 hair, found on the duct tape?
9 A. FBI lab identified a hair or fiber
10 from the adhesive side of the duct tape as a
11 beaver hair.

Added: My recollection is beaver hair paintbrushes are used for something Chinese. Calligraphy? Watercolors?

I'm putting this quote here to remind me to look in some catalogues later, after catching up with the two or three more pages of this thread, to see if there's any such thing as beaver watercolor brushes, don't think so but I could be wrong. Sable watercolor brushes are supposed to be good. More expensive, but I don't think I've ever heard of beaver. I thought Patsy's boots had beaver trim, and maybe an intruder's jacket.

[Louisadelmar]

I'm putting this quote here to remind me to look in some catalogues later, after catching up with the two or three more pages of this thread, to see if there's any such thing as beaver watercolor brushes, don't think so but I could be wrong. Sable watercolor brushes are supposed to be good. More expensive, but I don't think I've ever heard of beaver. I thought Patsy's boots had beaver trim, and maybe an intruder's jacket.

I think they are fairly uncommon and their use is specialized. Watercolors? Calligraphy?

The picture I have seen offered up as proof that Patsy had beaver boots is this:

http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j1...syfurboots.jpg

What Patsy says is:

. I had a
15 pair of after-ski boots, black, I don't know
16 what kind of fur it was. Technica or something
17 like that. It had like a little Indian braiding
18 around it or something, black fringe. It was
19 kind of, I don't know, leopard fur kind of
20 thing.

This is a link to teknica boots:
http://www.nextag.com/tecnica-fur-boots/search-html

I went through once and they do not use beaver to trim their boots. They use rabbit, cow and a couple others I can't remember at the moment, but no beaver.

[Jayelles]

Beaver hair is used for some specialist types of paintbrush which I believe may be calligraphy or chinese ...something. We found at least one website which sold them and explained it all.

[andU]

Yes, White, you WERE the friend who saved me from much of the pain this weekend. I was afraid to mention the PMs. Afterall, we DO have our reputations to think about.

Anyway, I can't wait until tomorrow. The pain will be gone and I'll look like my grandkids. Maybe the tooth fairy will come by. If the tooth fairy left a dollar for every year of the tooth's age, I would come out p-r-e-t-t-y darn good! The heating pad worked and so did the addition of ibuprophen. The swelling is still so bad and it has not drained at all. I hope he'll be able to pull it in spite of the swelling. I took the complete antibiotic regime.

I thank you guys for your helpful and compassionate advice. It has REALLY helped. I'll let you know how everything goes tomorrow.

I have something to post relative to this but I'll put it on the Blowing off steam thread...