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SABLE, AMERICAN

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SABLE, See also:AMERICAN and See also:CANADIAN.—See also:SiZe 17X5 in. The skins are sold in the See also:trade See also:sale as See also:martens, but as there are many that are of a very dark See also:colour and the See also:majority are almost as silky as the See also:Russian sable, the See also:retail trade has for generations back applied the See also:term of sable to this See also:fur. The prevailing colour is a See also:medium See also:brown, and many are quite yellow. The See also:dyeing of these very See also:pale skins has been for so See also:long well executed that it has been possible to make very See also:good useful and effective articles of them at a moderate See also:price compared to Russian sable. The finest skins are found in the See also:East See also:Main and the Esquimaux See also:Bay, in the See also:Hudson's Bay See also:Company's districts, and the poorest in See also:Alaska. They are not found very far See also:south of the See also:northern boundary of the See also:United States. The best skins are excellent in quality, colour and effect, and See also:wear well. Value 27s. 3d. to 290s.

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