Cooper
- The Barrel Maker - model - made with deep mined british coal
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This eye catching coal model Cooper - made with coal - is a beautiful in detail - it would compliment any collection of coal figures |
| Dimensions (measured at the widest points) Approx.
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- Length 9.00 (cm) About
3 1/2 (inches) left to right
- Height 11.00 (cm) About
4 1/4
(inches) top to bottom
- Width 8.00 (cm) About
3 1/4
(inches) front to back
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Cooper |
Cooper made in England with deep mined coal
Cooper Ideal as a gift, even better as a treat for yourself
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In stock - normally despatched within 24hrs
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Our stock code : CR1162 |
| Dimensions (measured at the widest points) Approx.
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- Length 9.00 (cm) About
3 1/2 (inches) left to right
- Height 11.00 (cm) About
4 1/4
(inches) top to bottom
- Width 8.00 (cm) About
3 1/4
(inches) front to back
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The Barrel Maker
The Cooper made with coal
This model of a cooper has bedn handcrafted and make with coal
The art of coopering dates back centuries, and the basic trade has remained unchanged. Coopering requires skill, intelligence, and strength. The tools of the trade are often handed down for generations.
Coopers crafted casks which:
- Held flour, gunpowder, tobacco, and other commodities
- Served as shipping containers
- Stored liquids from wine to milk
Today, coopers are often called "barrel makers," but a barrel is only one kind of cask, made by what was known as a "tight cooper." Other casks included the firkin, kilderkin, hogshead, butt, rundlet, tierce, puncheon, and pipe.
The tight cooper assembled clear white oak staves split from the dense center of a tree. He fit the staves one to another, and bound them with iron to make casks for liquids of all sorts.
A "slack cooper" built containers for such commodities as flour and tobacco. "White" coopering produced pails, churns, tubs, and dippers, often made of cedar or pine.
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