The Coopers' Company, the Craft, and Gauging Casks
Description
A thesis examining the history and practise of coopering, including a section outlining the history of the Coopers Company of London , and a description of hand coopering based on interviews with coopers and accounts of the craft. Photographs of tools are presented with a brief description of their function. The technique of gauging casks is outlined, accompanied by photographs of some of the older instruments used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (courtesy of the Museum of Customs and Excise in London). A glossary of terms, giving brief etymologies, is also included.
Metadata
| Identifier | b77qml2k |
| IRN | 410075 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/039 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/b77qml2k |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | O'Neill, G M |
| Date | 1967 |
| Size and Medium | 70 bound typed leaves; 32 b/w photographs. |