Black beaver pelts offered for sale, 1964

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Event

Date: circa 1964-05
Kind: Announcement
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: economyconservationcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

A May 1964 classified notice in the May Beaver Beacon offered rare black beaver pelts for sale by Walter Wojan and Rogers Carlisle. It said unsold pelts would be sent to tanners for processing.

Evidence and limits

This is a classified sales notice, not a completed transaction or harvest record. It gives no price, quantity, trapper register, or tanning record.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, May 1964, classified advertising.
Offers rare black beaver pelts for sale by Walter Wojan and Rogers Carlisle and says unsold pelts would be sent to tanners; it does not provide a price, quantity, trapper register, or completed sale.
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Beaver Beacon, May 1964, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Black beaver pelts offered for sale, 1964”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-pelts-sale-walter-wojan-rogers-carlisle-1964/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1964, classified advertising. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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