How to Grade FursFor trappers, buyers and retailers. |
Common terms and phrases
animal appearance Arctic wolf auction badger badly damaged beaver belly Best II pelts Best II's Bluebellies bluish British Columbia Coast brown burnt buyers Canada clean coats collars color coyote cross fox damaged pelts dark dense discounted downgraded dressing dyed especially fingers flat fox pelts garments Grade III grease hair seal handled III's important jackets kind of fur length less long-haired furs long-tailed weasel look lynx MacKenzie River males Manitoba marten otter overstretching pale parcel pelts are usually perhaps poor quality prairie wolf prime probably proportion put up separately red fox reddish scraped seam season sell short-tails shot hole shoulders silky silver fox singed sizes skin slightly damaged Slightly Shot small pelts smaller sold separately sometimes spots springy squirrel stained stretched tail tainted pelts timber wolf top hair trappers unprime weasel white fox whole pelt width wild mink winter wolverine worth