Fur Buyers' 

 Guide 



FUR BUYERS' GUIDE 



Contains Complete Instructions about Buying, Handling aid Grading Furs, including Size. Colir. Qiality 



as well as How. When and Where to Sill. 



The chapter headings give a very good idea of this valuable book 

 yet to further explain take the chapter on Mink (XIII.) which goes 

 into detail as follows: Sizes of Stretching Boards; Shape of Cured 

 Skins; Shades of Color and Degrees of Prime- 

 ness; Selling at Home; Preparing and Ship- 

 | ping to Market. Each of the fur animals are 

 described much the same as mink. The various 

 shades of black, silver and cross fox are de- 

 scribed and illustrated as well as the mark- 

 ings on skunk shown and eaph of the four 

 [ grades illustrated and fully described. Weasel 

 (ermine) are shown in the white stage also 

 I when turning. Raccoon, muskrat, opossum, 

 red and giey foxes, wolves, otter, beaver, bear, 

 badger, marten, lynx, fisher, wild cat, civet 

 cat, house jcat are all illustrated and fully de- 

 scribed as well as a chapter on Sheep Pelts, 

 Beef Hides, and Deer Skins and another on 

 Ginseng and Golden Seal. 



Much attention is given to GRADE, 

 COLOR, QUALITY as well as sizes LARGE, 

 [MEDIUM, SMALL. More than 160 illustra- 

 tions are used showing raw furs from all 

 parts of North America with measurements 



and grade. It also tells WHEN to BUY and WHERE, WHEN and 

 HOW to SELL. This information is of much value to all whether a 

 trapper who sells a few skins only or buyer, collector, dealer. 

 This valuable book contains Thirty-five chapters as follows: 

 I. "Wild" and "Tame" Furs. XXI. Beaver and How to Grade. 



II. Size, Color, jQuality. XXII. Bears Black, Grizzly Po- 



III. Methods of Grading. 



IV. The Inspection Room. 

 V. Why Trappers Sell 



Home. 



VI. Buyers and Collectors. 

 VII. Buying and Selling. 

 VIII. Speculation. 

 IX. Prices of Long Ago. 



lar and How to Grade. 

 XXIII. Marten and How to Grade 

 at XXIV. Fisher and How to Grade. 

 XXV. Lynx and How to Grade. 

 XXVI. Wild Cat or Bay Lynx 



and How to Grade. 

 XXVII. Cats House and Ring 

 Tail and How to Grade. 



X. Miscellaneous Information. XXVIII. Badger and How to Grade. 



XI. Foxes Black, Silver, 



Cross, and How to Grade. 



XII. Foxes Red, Gray, Kitt or 



Swift and How to Grade. 



XIII. Mink and How to Grade. 



XIV. Muskrat How to Grade. 



XXIX. Wolverine How to Grade. 

 XXX. White Weasel (ermine) 



and How to Grade. 

 XXXI. Sea Otter How to Grade. 

 XXXII. Mountain Lion and How 



to Grade. 



XV. Skunk and How to Grade. XXXIII. Seals Fur and Hair and 

 XVI. Civet Cat How to Grade. How to Grade. 



XVII. Raccoon and How to Grade. XXXIV. Pelts, Hides, Skins and 

 XVIII. Opossum How to Grade. How to Grade. 



XIX. Wolves and Coyotes and XXXV. Roots Ginseng and Gold- 

 How to Grade. en Seal How to Classify. 

 XX. Otter and How to Grade. 



If you handle Raw Furs, Hides, Pelts or Roots it will be to your 

 advantage (cash in your pocket) to order at once for FUR BUYERS' 

 ^UIDE contains many valuable suggestions learned from long ex- 

 perience, that the "other fellow" may get onto before you so better 

 send today. This book weighs nearly 2 pounds, contains 370 pages, 

 160 illustrations and cost me thousands of dollars to print. 

 Price, postpaid, cloth bound, to any address, $2.00 

 A. R. HARDING, Pub., 106 Walnut St., ST. LOUIS. MO. 



