Re: Selling Furs to Sears
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I remember buying some traps from sears back in 67 or 68. A number 4 vic double long spring,a number 14 jump and a 110 conibear. Previous to that I was buying traps at the local hardware store.
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Re: Selling Furs to Sears
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09/07/21 09:26 PM
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I sold my first season's catch to them, 12 muskrats, I do not recall how much I got for them, but they said they were poorly handled, lol. My mother made my older brother help skin them. He did not skin the head out, he cut it off at the neck. It is a wonder I got anything for them.
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Re: Selling Furs to Sears
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09/07/21 09:50 PM
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A fact that many might not know is that the actual company buying the fur was Silberman's. They operated under the banner of "Sears". They ran their operation in later years out of Medford Wisconsin, well into the '80s, maybe even into the '90s.
Even though all the other major fur people operated out of NYC, Silberman's operated out of Chicago.
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Re: Selling Furs to Sears
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09/07/21 10:24 PM
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My dad sold townsend mole skins to Sears shorty after WWI. He got about 10 cents for them which was darn good money at the time.
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Re: Selling Furs to Sears
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09/07/21 10:28 PM
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One of our members donated some of his Dad's trapping books and catalogs to our Convention Auction a few years ago. The big hit at the auction was a blank Sears & Roebuck Fur Tag that was in one of the books.
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Re: Selling Furs to Sears
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09/08/21 06:43 AM
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Sears started to publish their Tips to Trappers with the 1926-1927 season, they mailed the booklet to customers that shipped them their fur. They continued the booklet until 1958.
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Re: Selling Furs to Sears
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09/08/21 06:57 AM
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I sold all my rats to a local furrier in Union NJ in the 50's the rest went to sears. I saved all my paper work, heck I saved everything, but we had a fire while my parent and I were at my college graduation ceremonies. Nothing left. I still save most everything. We had a lot of rats in those days. On the firs day or two I would check my 20 traps three times a nite. Usually got one or two on the way home from setting........jk
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Re: Selling Furs to Sears
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We had a few options for selling fur here back in the 70's. There was a local buyer at the hardware store-Ratcliff was his name. There was the North West Company in the basement of the bay store.They would buy direct or consign your fur to NAFA. There was a travelling buyer from out west that would come by a few times during the season and set up at the motel. And of course we had our own- The Ontario trappers assn auction house in North Bay.
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Re: Selling Furs to Sears
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09/08/21 10:01 AM
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Your rats may have been good bodycount,- matted fur is hard for a grader to evaluate properly, so they go in the poor pile.
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