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Coopers also make washtubs, pails, and piggins. Coopers to the south of me make hogsheads. They put tobacco in them. The hogsheads are slack/cylindrical and they aren’t expert work. The cooper's apprentice usually makes them.
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library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/town.htm
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P 102-60 If a man was a bit of a cooper [he would go] to the coopershop and make piggins and spudgils out of pork barrel staves. The difference between a piggin and a spudgil: one was about 10 or 12 inches high with one stave about 5 or 6 inches longer than the others to use as a handle;
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redefineit.blogspot.com/2009/01/word-of-week-january-25...
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A piggin?! What's that? In the colonial era, some buckets were made with one stave left extra long; this stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop. ... It was useful on the farm for scattering grain for the chickens, slopping the hogs, Available with steel or sapling hoops.
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www.beaverbuckets.com/Catalog_Piggin.htm
www.beaverbuckets.com/Catalog_Piggin.htm
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An apprenticeship would last four to five years, although you would have a hard job becoming a coopers apprentice these days. Apprentices usually started at the age of fourteen and then worked as a ... As well a casks coopers would also make, Piggins, Buckets, Domestic Kegs, Butter Churns, Ale Vessels and Coal Scuttles...
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www.ukcraftfairs.com/coopering.asp
www.ukcraftfairs.com/coopering.asp
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Coopering is divided into three branches: wet, dry and white. Wet coopers make casks such as barrels for liquids; dry coopers make flour barrels and nail kegs; and white coopers make household items including buckets, butter churns, piggins, and butter carriers.
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www.wthines.com/White%20Coopering.htm
www.wthines.com/White%20Coopering.htm
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I am a self-taught white cooper who makes household containers such as piggins, butter carriers, buckets, churns, and canteens. ... W. T. Hines and Sons White Coopers...
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In 1823, two new individuals, Thomas Dodson and Benjamin Good, were listed on the tax return as coopers. ... A cooper might make nothing but containers other than casks. In that case, he was called a white cooper. The kinds of things the white cooper made included: buckets, piggins and peck/half peck measures,
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www.motherbedford.com/Cooper.htm
www.motherbedford.com/Cooper.htm
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The men used traditiona woodworking skills to make piggins, ladles, and bowls for settler homes; they provided fish, oysters, and game for them. Stephen Pharaoh's pay is recorded for "bottoming" (rushing) Dominy chairs.
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wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/shubinsk/montaukett/montaukett.txt
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Troy Piggins - 19 Nov 2009 03:46 GMT ... I have no need to try to pawn off bad photography bounded in an instructional book to try to make all that wasted time and effort with a camera worth it. My photography stands on its own merit. I don't have to trick anyone into buying it.
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