The carried out analysis concerned skin quality of silver foxes (2560 individuals) and Blue Frost foxes (621 individuals) which were sold on the auction in Helsinki in season 2000/2001.As a result of the research we can draw conclusions that more merchants from abroad are interested in this sort of skins, particularly crossings. The price of crossings (102.52)€ was 12% higher than the price of silver foxes (91.46)€. In case of the domestic skins the difference was 9,41% higher than the mean auction price obtained for the silver fox skins (87.54)€. It has been proved that in relation to size and color, Polish skins of silver foxes and blue foxes had slightly lower prices than the mean auction price of skins. They had worse purity and quality. It has been visible especially in the silver fox lots which in majority (60%) had brown shades of skins.

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