# Securing furs: moths, cold, and the species-protection paper

> Securing furs: cool, breathing, moth checks, review the species-protection papers before you buy or store.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/pelze-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

The moth eats the fur, and some furs are not allowed across the street without papers, let alone across the border. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) fur sits with textiles and at the legal line, next to [Ivory and CITES](/artikel/elfenbein-cites-sichern).

## The limit

Which species you may own, buy, and pass on is not on the label in the collar. It is in species-protection law and on the papers that come with the piece. You ask before you buy. This text is not a buying guide.

## What gets ruined without a thief

Moth, heat, a plastic cover with no air, light. You store cool, dark, and breathing, and you check. An infestation moves into the whole cabinet. You separate at once.

## When someone comes

Bulky, but a small jacket goes along. It does not hang on the door. The papers lie in the document cabinet, the piece in the cool cabinet, not in the hot safe.


## Häufige Fragen

### Plastic cover?

Only with air. Otherwise the fur goes musty.

### Which species are allowed?

The papers and the competent authority say that, not this text. Ask before you buy.

### Moths in the cabinet?

Infested pieces out at once, check the cabinet, do not wait.