1960.34.2.3

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Details

ID Number

1960.34.2.3

Category

T&E For Materials

Sub-category

woodworking T&E

Item Type

sun

Item Name

plane

Maker

Sandusky Tool Co.

Materials

WOOD, UNKNOWN METAL, STEEL

Description

Coopers' (.01) Semi-circular stock; flat sole; iron plated (.02) Wedge (.03) Iron

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

Pelee Island (Ont.) / Île Pelée, (Ont.) place

Saunders, Luke person

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