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Summary of Government-owned fur-seal skins in the custody of Fouke Fur Co., at 

 St. Louis, Mo., calendar year 1934 



• Includes 2 skins unaccounted for at close of 19.33 which were subsequently found when shipment was 

 unpacked at St. Louis. 



Summary of all Government-owned fur-seal skins under control of Department of 

 Commerce, calendar year 1934 



' Skins made up into coats for display purposes. 



2 Includes 2 skins unaccounted for at close of 1933 which were subsequently found when shipment was 

 unpacked at St. Louis. ,^ 



SHIPMENT AND SALE OF FOX SKINS 



The 214 blue and 23 wliite fox skins taken on St. Paul Island and 

 the 700 })lue and 2 white fox skins taken on St. Gcor<z:o Island in the 

 season of 1933-34 were sliipped from the islands on the Penguin, 

 sailing on May 17. The vessel reached Seattle on May 28, and the 

 fox skins were forwarded promptly by express to the Department's 

 selling agents at St. Louis, Mo. 



At the public auction sale in St. Louis on April 30, 1934, there were 

 sold 559 blue fox skins that were taken on the Pribilof Islands in the 

 1932-33 season. These skins brought $19,967.50, an average of 

 $35.72 per skin. The maximum price was $75, obtained for a pelt 

 sold singly. 



