How to Grade Furs

animal appearance Arctic wolf auction badger badly damaged belly Best II pelts Best II's bluish British Columbia Coast brownish burnt buyers Canada clean coats collars color damaged pelts dark dense downgraded dressing dyed earlier especially fingers garments grade III hair seal handled hectare III's important jackets kind of fur Large Mediums less long-haired furs long-tailed weasel look lynx MacKenzie River males Manitoba marten muskrat pelts Ontario otter overstretching parcel pelts are usually poor quality prairie wolf prime probably proportion put up separately quality pelts red fox reddish rubbed Saskatchewan scraped seam sell short-tails shot hole shoulders silky silver fox singed sizes skin side slightly damaged Slightly Shot small pelts sold separately sometimes spots springy squirrel stained stretched tail tainted pelts thin timber wolf top hair trapper underfur unprime weasel white fox whole pelt width wild mink winter wolverine woolly worth