Anyone know what top lot went for?
Clearances?

I asked the same question?
Dirt help us out here?

55 Labrador marten: 28 sold and 27 unsold; average $46.21 US and top $86 US BUT almost all 2X Selects and I's of Dk and Dk Brown colours i.e. most of best, were withdrawn barring PT sales. No idea what sale top was.

It's not really great marten sale , a lot BB and price drop , soft ranch mink sale mean not a lot marten trim for ranch mink fur coat.

Thank you Frank, did most of your held over goods sell from last year or were they held over again?
I am thinking I will hold the rest of my catch in my freezer like Boco, does for this year.

Sold my Pale 2's. Pale 3 and Xpale still going for another ride. Don't pay to trap here in pale land. All I had from last year was pretty much pale and below. Somebody needs to clue the buyers in on dye. Down to 1/4 of last years harvest. Prices were reasonable. Average $65 for pales. All big selects and I's Heavy left now, still pale, xpale.

Can't pay off that new sno-go with marten in the freezer gibb.

Saga seems to have figured out how to sell ranch mink. 90% clearances Males $26 to $33 averages and females $16 to $19. Good prices for 1978.

"Mink sales started with high clearance

Saga Furs March auction continued today with the selling of White and Pearl mink in addition to smaller quantities of different Cross types. The crowd of more than 450 buyers bid actively over the 800,000 mink pelts on offer today. China was the most dominant buyer with good support from the European fashion industry, Russia and South Korea.

The sales started with Pearl mink where classic type pelts in both male and female were almost 100% sold with advancing prices, while velvet types in Pearl met some resistance from the buyers. Male and female Whites in both classic and velvet types sold almost 100% with slight price increases."

I have mink that apparently will be heading into season 4! Haven't set intentionally for them in 3 years, but pick up the odd climber. Gotta be getting stale, by now.

I kept all my XXX-XX hvy for last couple years-shipping the rest.Dry marten keep real good in the freezer.
One year a buddy got a visit from a CO.He shipped a bunch of marten with gov't stamps.We had gone to a harvest report in lieu of stamping about 4 years previous.The auction houses have\had a CO inspecting fur,and the grader said the marten were fresh.
When they checked back on the old stamping records and pulled the guys harvest reports all were accounted for as held over fur.

Most of my marten go pale to xx-pale and have been selling, but it's the price that hurts. I guess I will just have to get another day job to pay for my ride.
Thanks for info.

Top marten was $140, don’t think any other lots were even close to that.

Thanks Jor !!

Getting information about the FHA sale is like looking for a needle in a haystack, tic toc tic toc the days of our lives.

I watched the first half, then I went to sleep. There was no interest in the bigger sizes at the prices they wanted and the auctioneers were coming down quite a bit so probably a good thing they didn’t sell. They really didn’t start selling til the 1X and smaller semi heavies came up.