Adze Collection

British Countryside - Cutting Chestnuts
British Countryside - A Woodman cutting Chestnuts at Midhurst, Sussex - from which barrel hoops, fencing and bean sticks are made. Date: 1938

Fragment of a banner of miners from Tyrol, 15th century
Fragment of a banner of silver and copper miners from Tyrol, late 15th century. St. George kills a dragon next to a scarlet eagle

Cooper hammering a metal hoop on a hogshead barrel. On the walls are tools such as saws, axe, spoke-shave, stock and bit, adze and auger

Chinese men playing a game of dice.. Handcolored woodcut from Auguste Wahlens Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World, Brussels, 1845

Tools / Knives Etc / 1889
Various types of knife, adze, axe and other blades

A Cooper at Work
A cooper uses a hand adze to shape one of the bands used to hold together the individual slats which make up a barrel or keeler tub. The workshop is known as a cooperage

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