(filched from another conference and posted here because of meatlworking content) Here are some items from a blacksmith's bill. circa 1841
mend a tea kittel fountin & ladel ironwork for a snead steel a bidex 2 neraways
6 spicks ½ L of nails & a barker 4 pigsprings Sharpe 3 wages mend a hams cogs & linces for a pound 3 bars for a cornwipperLet's see if any smiths can figure out what these items are. Keep in mind that some words are just badly spelled by a nearly illiterate writer.
I'd guess "a snead" to be the customer, A. Snead.
Could these items be A. Ham's?
Similarly, something done for Mr. or Mrs. A. Pound
If the customer's name wasn't A. Cornwipper then maybe he made some bars for somebody who used corncobs when they ran out of toilet paper.
Jeff
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:16:30 -0500, Jeff Wisnia vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!:
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So the guy was a thief as well! Hey! times were tough!
Well, I'd go for A. Barker here, but maybe the guy was forging some bench dogs?
Na. A ham is a bit of smoked pigspring.
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Nope. Your tries were all complete misses. I'll leave this a while in case anyone else wants to try or you want to try again. None of the answers involve anyone's name, and as another hint I'll specify that this was a English blacksmith.
Yup!
Something thicker than grass.
6 spikes, 1/2 pound of handcut nails and a tool for removing bark from lumber. A curved drawknife...Yes.
Hames. Part of a horse collar.
Where do you go when you've lost your dog?
A barker is probably a barking spud, hard to cut a good joint with bark on a timber. Maybe 3 pecks of nails? A snead is the same as a snath, somebody was mowing or cutting grain corn may not be maize, it could be any grain like barley, so perhaps a grain cradle or part of a harvesting implement. pig spring? must be a coil spring?
Correct! From the curly shape of a pig's tail.
I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Old Nick wrote back on Sat, 06 Nov 2004 08:40:24 +0800 in rec.crafts.metalworking :
Ah, so the concept of "water added" hams goes back this far.
I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Larry Jaques wrote back on Sat, 06 Nov 2004 08:35:56
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Barking Spud. Oh right. Not enough that the dogs are making noise, now the potatoes are doing it too!
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 21:57:29 GMT, pyotr filipivich calmly ranted:
The person who invents the injectable protein which devours vocal cords in said beasties will become a billionaire in minutes.
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