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“Buy a Purs! A long and a strong Purs! Good leather or a strong moleskin
purs! Buy a Purs! A long and strong Purs! They’ll suit the young—they suit
the old! To lose good money, what is worse! Yet it’s daily done for the want
of a Purs! Because pickets in the clothing were scarce the peddlers carried
their money in small bags, called purses, attached to their belts. There
were of the pouch=type with drawstring at the top. The purse peddler sold
this kind and also the fancier ones that the great ladies carried. These
were called reticules. They were long and narrow with an opening half way
down the length forming two pockets of equal size. A circular metal slide
was used to close either section. Some were knitted and beaded.
ADT125
Price $225.00Sale Pending |
In some of the old records we find mention made of the itinerant woodchopper
and splitter. All he needed in order to carry on his trade was a saw, a
well-sharpened axe and a number of wooden wedges of various sizes to use
when splitting logs into firewood.
These men
could be hired to chop down trees for the busy farmer or householder. They
would saw the tree into logs and then split these up into a convenient size
for fireplace or stove. The wedges made his task much easier.
In the early
days this was the role of the solitary woodsman, but later groups of men
drifted from place to place leveling forests of pine, oak, maple and hemlock
trees. If they were near a river or stream they would bind the logs together
and float them down the streams to a settlement and sell them. The men made
their home in the forest, living on the products of the woods and rivers.
Their
clothing was rough and heavy, suitable to their life in the woods. They wore
knee length breeches of wool, heavy woolen stockings, shirts and sleeveless
vests made of a durable homespun material. High boots of cowhide completed
their costumes. Item ADT127 Price $195.00 |
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"FRESH EGG PEDDLAR" There were many women who found it lucrative to
raise chickens and sell eggs, just as many women living on farms have done
ever since. It was a very common sight to see women both young and old with
great baskets of eggs on their arms and hear their competitive calls ---"New
laid eggs, eight a Groat--Crack'em and try'em!"
Sometimes a
woman might have smaller eggs or possibly the old idea of underselling her
competitors might influence her and her cry would be: "Here's new-laid eggs
for ten a Groat!
ADT129 Price $195.00Sale Pending |
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