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Fur Trade
Standard of Trade - Albany Fort, 1733
A Beaver Pelt could buy one of the following:
| Item | Amount | | Item | Amount |
| Beads (Coloured) | ¾ lb. | Pistols | [1 for 4 pelts] |
| Kettle, Brass | 1 | Gun Worms | 1 |
| Lead, Black | 1 lb. | Gloves, Yarn | 1 |
| Gun Powder | 1 ½ lb. | Goggles | 2 |
| Shot | 5 lbs. | Handkerchiefs | 1 |
| Sugar | 2 lbs. | Hats, laced | 1 |
| Tobacco, Brazil | 2 lbs. | Hatchets | 2 |
| Ditto Leaf or Roll | 1 ½ lbs. | Hawk Bells | 8 |
| Thread | 1 lb. | Ice Chisels | 2 |
| Vermilion | 1 ½ oz | Knives | 8 |
| Brandy | 1 gallon | Looking Glasses | 2 |
| Broad Cloth | 2 yard | Mocotagans (Curved Knives) | 2 |
| Blankets | 1 | Needles | 12 |
| Flannel | 2 yard | Net-Lines | 2 |
| Gartering | 2 yard | Powder Horns | 2 |
| Awl Blades | 12 | Plain Rings | 6 |
| Buttons | 12 dozen | Stone Rings | 3 |
| Breeches | 1 pair | Scrapers | 2 |
| Combs | 2 | Sword Blades | 2 |
| Egg Boxes | 4 | Spoons | 4 |
| Feathers, red | 2 | Shirts | 2 |
| Fish Hooks | 20 | Shoes | 1 pair |
| Fire Steels | 4 | Stocking | [1 for 1 ¼ pelts] |
| Files | 1 | Sashes, Worsted | 2 |
| Flints | 20 | Thimbles | 6 |
| Guns | [1 for 10 to 12 pelts] | Tobacco Boxes | 2 |
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