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1960.34.2.4

ID Number: 1960.34.2.4
Category: T&E For Materials
Sub-category: woodworking T&E
Item Type: chamfering
Item Name: drawknife
Materials: WOOD, UNKNOWN METAL, STEEL
Description: Coopers' Convex, basiled on the outside
History: "Luke Saunders was the last cooper to use this equipment (up to the fall of 1938). It was used to make barrels in which Point Pelee apples were shipped to Britain. The freighter on which they had been shipped was sunk by the Germans at the beginning of World War II."
Collection Name: Museum Windsor
Subject (Fre): Y

Subjects

Carpentry / Travail du bois subject

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