DCHP-3

fat summer beaver

Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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unprime or inferior skins from a beaver coat.

Quotations

1735
The beaver . . . was classified into eight varieties. . . . The second sort was the fat summer beaver, worth two shillings and sixpence [a pound].
1930
. . . arrangements were made January 4, 1733, to receive dry summer beaver for the following year at 20 sols, and fat summer beaver at 35 sols la livre .