Re: Grading Fur Standards
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The grading "standards" if you want to call them that were set generations ago. What changes is demand in general, and demand for specific grades within a species. During periods of high demand a particular skin of slightly lower quality might be pushed into the next grade higher. This doesn't mean the standards have changed, just that a potential buyer at an auction will grudgingly except this practice. Don't expect this to happen during a down market though.
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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As the market changes,different skins of the same value to the buyer will get intersorted at the auction. Its all about how the skins are used,dictated by fashon trends and what the buyers want in an assortment. In the high value high fashon furs you wont see this as much,or at all.In the lower grades and damaged you will see a lot of different sizes,colours and clarities mixed because they all have basically the same value and end use. Grades do not change,but the intersort does in response to fashon.
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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Standards? What’s that? Lol
Kidding aside It seems as if standards are not the same all the time. For one thing many buyers have their own standards in regards to where they intend on selling. These change all the time. Same can be said about the auction houses. Between the two auction houses the grade is not necessarily the same. And the auction houses change their standards to try to market the skins the best way in their opinion.
So that is why I say “what’s that” There is more or less a standard but it gets pushed all over to suit individuals needs or desires
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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Boco It changes and everyone knows it You can call it “intersorting” if you’d like But if 1100 skins are in a 3xl SEL lot it should all be 3xl SEL not intersorted with I*
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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If they are all valued the same there is no reason to break them down.Buyers want large lots and in many cases will pay the same price for a 1 or a select because there is not enough skins of that size quality.Same value-one lot.
Why do you think the O and 1's in beaver are intersorted?There is not enough skins of the one size to stand alone.So the buyers orders are filled with equal quality the next size down.It makes no sense to not intersort the two grade sizes. The grades cannot change,skins are what they are.You do not seem to know the difference between individual fur grades and a fur assortment.
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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Fur grading by a trained competent fur grader is quite precise.How the grades are intersorted to meet buyers requirements does change with market demands and fashon trends.
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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Fur grading by a trained competent fur grader is quite precise.How the grades are intersorted to meet buyers requirements does change with market demands and fashon trends. Boco, why do you imagine the term "Chinese grade" came about? Any buyer of skins at either auction house (especially NAFA) knows exactly what this term implies. I'm pretty tired of it now. I agree that a competent grader can sort skins very effectively, unless they have been instructed to do otherwise, most of the senior graders with many years experience are gone or about to go, compounding the problem.
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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Fur grading by a trained competent fur grader is quite precise.How the grades are intersorted to meet buyers requirements does change with market demands and fashon trends. Exactly. A fur quality on a raccoon that was a #I, a #II(2), a low #2, or a #3 or #4 was the same in the 1970's as it is in the 2010's. Like has already been stated, often times I's and II's are mixed together for value, and 3's&4's are almost always combined. Sizes are more standardized now-a-days than they ever have been. Colors are also fairly standard, but of all three characteristics colors are probably the most subjective. I have never been able to sort mink as to color, coon on the other hand are one of the easiest.
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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Wolfer-The graders at FHA have been there for years and the new ones at NAFA have been trained by the retiring graders.Some of the retired graders work as fur brokers because they know fur. You are also confusing pelt grading with lot intersorting. Waggler understands the auction intersorting process.
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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So is the show lot a good representative of the lot? Or is the show lot cherry picked?
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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Show lots are representative. If you are talking about the promotional top lots-those are the best of the best,and are marketed as such all the way thru the pipeline.
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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Gotcha, was just making sure the I's were in with the SEL on the show lot.
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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Jim Gibb could answer you that.I think the pencil thing that Jim wrote about is just a general way for a trapper to gage what kind of skins he has if he does not have hundreds to compare with each other.
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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Re: Grading Fur Standards
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Nope I’m not confused at all I understand intersorting I understand making large lots
However, I do not understand why a catalog grade will say sel but in fact the lot itself has been intersorted. And I also understand that there have been many times that nafa has been challenged for having the show lot not be an accurate representation of the lot.
So....this means nafa changes the grade to suit what they feel is the need or acceptable. I.e a sel lot that has I-II type skins but is not labeled as such. The grade on the skins did not change but the grade on the sheet did
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