Antique Garden Tools and Accessories (Schiffer Book for Collectors) [Hardcover]

Myra Yellin Outwater (Author), Eric Boe Outwater (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2007 | Series: Schiffer Book for Collectors

In thousands of years of tilling the soil, we have created a great variety of garden tools to dig, cut scrub, harrow fields, and trim borders. What makes the tools unique, and collectible, is the way function has dictated form, resulting in not only ingenious shapes, but artistic ones. In the 19th and early 20th centuries garden tool catalogs listed hundreds of task-specific tools including dibbers, mattocks, potato hoes, onion hoes, daisy grubbers, claws, weeders, forcers, straighteners, garden row markers, garden reels, rakes, watering cans, water tanks, lawn mowers, lawn rollers, weed whackers, and many many more. This book looks back at two hundred years of garden history, and attempts to identify the tools and accessories that gardeners used, and as much as possible identify their specific functions. With over 750 color photographs, concise captions, and a guide to prices in today's antique marketplace, this is a useful as well as beautiful exploration of garden implements.

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About the Author

Myra Yellin Outwater is an award-winning journalist who has written extensively on antiques and design; her husband, Eric provides most of the photographs. They live in an old Pennsylvania stone farmhouse surrounded by gardens.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing (July 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764314785
• ISBN-13: 978-0764314780
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,828,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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