As a concertina restorer I am very upset that the press have chosen to expose this last remaining supplier of genuine weasel pelt. It is astonishingly expensive, but then again so are some concertinas and for some instruments only the very best will do.
I fear that now the 'Weasel is out of the bag' so to speak, I shall have to revert to supplies of the slightly lower quality Ferret Leather. The ferret is another Mustelid and the best grades come from female polecat ferrets. This leather has been used as a substitute since the 1860s, indeed its use was so common as to lead the the concertina being nicknamed the "Leather Ferret" This animal is far easier to breed and handle and the pelt is significantly larger. The pelt was traditionally cured in a mixtute of bran, pureed cat brain and urine. (This aslo gives concertinas their distinctive odour)

Animal protesters want tying up and throwing into a pit full of starving rats!!

Dave