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    "1835 Cabinet Shop Inventory
    This is from Shelby County Indiana:"

    1835 Cabinet Shop Inventory « Full Chisel Blog

    We may be accused of hoarding tools ... but this guy ... with his 4 saws and 2 chisels ...

    had ... umm ... a damn sight more animals and corn than I do!

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    Quote Originally Posted by pmcgee View Post
    "1835 Cabinet Shop Inventory
    This is from Shelby County Indiana:"

    1835 Cabinet Shop Inventory « Full Chisel Blog

    We may be accused of hoarding tools ... but this guy ... with his 4 saws and 2 chisels ...

    had ... umm ... a damn sight more animals and corn than I do!

    Paul
    I've never thought to put the pgis, brich bands, pad gimblets, sneads, trunnel, pales and gums on my depreciation tables.

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    Bucket, pale(his spelling). Same thing in my understanding. Perhaps a bucket for week days and a pail on Sundays.
    The Oxford dictionary has pail as bucket but in the USA can describe a workmans lunch container.
    Lunch for the pgis could then come by bucket.
    I do like to see old lists like that as it gives some insight into what life was like. That was probably the result of a lifetime of hard work.
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    Thanks for linking to that Paul, it's an little insight into what life was like in the 1830's, Stephen Shepherd's blog is always interesting, and I've got his book on hide glue, well worth it.

    The other great site for an insight into 19th century life ( this time in the UK) is the Sheffield Flood Claims Archive, it is a snapshot of life in 1864 Sheffield you can easily lose a week or two reading the details of various claims.

    There is a very extensive probate listing for Port Royal somewhere on line, but I can't find it off hand... Port Royal was submerged in 1692 by an earthquake, and lots of records have been recovered and researched... I think it's this web site..

    Port Royal Archives .... ok found the one I was thinking of... http://nautarch.tamu.edu/Theses/pdf-...lin-MA1992.pdf It's a large (22 Mb) PDF, so watch out for bandwidth and disk space

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    I could be wrong, but I think a pail would have been metal and the bucket would have been wood.

    What is "do"? I don't think they were counting poop. And the do has different prices.

    On the left side they list 2 hand saws, on the right they list 1 hand saw. There is also 1 basket listed twice.

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    This isn't relative to the list in question, but here in the south (US) we generally say bucket, pail is a "Yankee" word.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TobyC View Post
    I could be wrong, but I think a pail would have been metal and the bucket would have been wood.
    What is "do"? I don't think they were counting poop. And the do has different prices.
    On the left side they list 2 hand saws, on the right they list 1 hand saw. There is also 1 basket listed twice.
    Toby
    'do' is short for 'ditto' ... we would write " marks.
    I only figured that out reading the book on early english moulding planes ...

    same story ... "do"??? ... wth?


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    Cool, thanks Paul.

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    Just a query on the money bit.

    Top right, first item, the cost is marked as $1.62½ is that half a cent or was it something like a half of a penny, or halfpenny as we called it.

    Interesting whatever it is.

    Mick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Optimark View Post
    Just a query on the money bit.

    Top right, first item, the cost is marked as $1.62½ is that half a cent or was it something like a half of a penny, or halfpenny as we called it.

    Interesting whatever it is.

    Mick.
    Wikipedia:
    "The half cent is the smallest denomination of United States coin ever minted. First authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792 on April 2, 1792,[1] the coin was produced in the United States from 1793 to 1857. The half-cent piece was made of 100% copper and was valued at five milles, or one two-hundredth of a dollar. It was slightly smaller than a modern U.S. quarter with diameters 22 mm (1793), 23.5 mm (1794–1836) and 23 mm (1840–1857).[2] Coinage was discontinued by the Coinage Act of February 21, 1857. They were produced at the Philadelphia Mint"

    P'raps more akin to the farthing, which we used for a lot longer.....?
    Cheers,

    Edit - I just checked, & there was never an Australian farthing, they were all British coins, which remained in circulation for a while after we started minting our own coins in 1910. I remember my grandmother having some......
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    Ian, thank you for that, I never thought to google the question, perhaps I should have.

    I remember farthings, both sets of grandparents had them and I remember my mother had a biscuit tin of farthings and half pennies or haipnees as we called them.

    One day someone knocked on her door and she sold them more or less for a song; that's life.

    Mick.

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