Tamped
Clay and Saltmarsh Hay - Artifacts of New Brunswick by
Robert Cunningham and John B.
Price presents a look at the way our ancestors coped with making the
necessities of life, long before the days of supermarkets, malls and
hardware stores, where anything the heart desires can be purchased.
Book 4018
$45.00 (Canadian Currency) plus $12.00 shipping within North
America.
Soft cover - 280 pages - published in 1976. Appears to be first
edition. Used book in good condition.
I found the details given on tin, tinkers, silver,
chairmaker’s guide,
wood finishes, glass making, soap, candles, nails, hammermen, trees,
knives, joinery, axe, and much more, very informative.
The hundred or so illustrations add to this publication
A book about tools, furnitute, glass used by the Acadians, the first
European settlers to New
Brunswick's Chignecto Isthmus
A construction knee cut from a tamarack tree is just one of the many
illustrations in the 280 page
"Tamped
Clay and Saltmarsh Hay - Artifacts of New Brunswick" - by Robert
Cunningham and John B. Price that was published in 1976 and deals
particularly with the Chignecto area.
The axe of the early settler was his most useful and cherished tool.
They came in all sizes and shapes, from the broad axe to the froe, each
designed for a specific task.
The cost of a screw was several times more than a nail, so until about
1830, screws were used mainly for attaching hinges to cabinet work.
Nails were often driven into hinges and bent. To prevent the nails from
breaking off, little pieces of leather were used as a cushion against
the hinge.
Soap was made by placing leftover grease and fat from the kitchen into
a large iron pot and adding lye which was formed from soaking hardwood
ashes in water. Sometimes grease was collected in a barrel that was
kept at the backdoor, lye and a stick were added and passers-by on the
way into the house donated their elbow grease.
Good tallow candles were made from one part beef and two parts mutton
suet. For two hours a day it was boiled gently for two or three days
with the adding of a little beeswax and weak lye. The bayberry was used
in making festive candles.
In 1859, Dr. Abraham Gesner distilled kerosene from local oil bearing
shales in Albert County and this brought a change to lighting with the
improved lamps.
Book
4018 $45.00 (Canadian Currency) plus $12.00 shipping within
North America. Soft cover - 280 pages - published in 1976.
Appears to be first edition. Used book in good condition.
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