The Skins And Other Articles Imported, And Sold At The Company's Warehouse, In The City Of London, By The "Inch

Of candle" - a mode of auction common in those days (under which the bidding went on till the inch of

Lighted wax, candle went out) - fluctuated in the ten years between the years 1739 and 1748 very much. In that period the highest and lowest prices were for: -

L s d L s d Beaver (per lb ) 0 7 101/4 0 5 3 Martin (per skin) 0 6 8 0 5 11/4 Otter " 0 13 6 0 5 5 Cat " 0 18 0 0 10 101/4 Fox " 0 11 71/4 0 6 71/4 Wolverines " 0 7 0 0 5 5 Bear (per skin) 1 6 71/2 0 12 101/4 Mink " 0 4 8 0 2 0 Wolves " 0 18 11 0 9 01/4 Woodshock " 0 12 0 0 8 0 Elk " 0 11 7 0 6 1 Deer " 0 0 9 0 2 01/4 Bed feathers (per lb ) 0 1 41/4 0 1 0 Castorum " 0 13 21/4 0 6 1 Ivory " - - - - - 0 0 61/4 Whale Fins " 0 2 9 0 1 101/4 Wesakapupa " 0 2 4 0 0 61/4 Whale Oil (per tun) 18 13 0 10 1 0 Goose quills (per 1,000) 0 18 0 0 11 7

"Ivory" only appears once, viz. in the sale of 1738-9. This article may have been, simply, bones of the whale; and "whale oil" only appears four times in the ten years quoted.

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