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parchment beaver

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1957 quote.

See: castor sec,coat beaver,dry beaver,parchment(def. 1)

Quotations

1682

Ordered the beavor and skins be put up as Foil. at the Sale The Coate Beavor . . . the parchment beavor . . . the halfe beavor. . . .

1774

This day 11 Cannoes of Grass River Indians came and pitch'd by us, of whome I traded some Moose flesh and a few Parchment Beaver.

1824

We could therefore have had no Market for fine Beaver but that for the Hatters, for whose use it is of little more value than the ordinary Parchment Beaver.

1957

Parchment beaver was a skin taken from the animal and stretched and dried.