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AMERICAN SABLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 352 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SABLE  and
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CANADIAN.—SiZe 17X5 in . The skins are sold in the
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trade
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sale as
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martens, but as there are many that are of a very dark
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colour and the
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majority are almost as silky as the
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Russian
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sable, the
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retail trade has for generations back applied the
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term of sable to this
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fur . The prevailing colour is a
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medium
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brown, and many are quite yellow . The
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dyeing of these very
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pale skins has been for so
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long well executed that it has been possible to make very
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good useful and effective articles of them at a moderate
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price compared to Russian sable . The finest skins are found in the
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East
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Main and the Esquimaux
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Bay, in the
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Hudson's Bay
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Company's districts, and the poorest in
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Alaska . They are not found very far
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south of the
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northern boundary of the
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United States . The best skins are excellent in quality, colour and effect, and
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wear well . Value 27s . 3d. to 290s .

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