Collectors in search of fascinating antique farm implements and machinery are constantly on the lookout for old barns and country auctions. Now they can identify 300 years of implements, tools, and machinery from a single reference, as well as read where each piece fits in farming history. This reference begins with the pilgrim landing in the early 17th century and ends with essays on traction steam engines and gasoline farm tractors of the early 20th century. In between are hundreds of antique engravings of everything from butter churns to windmills. Contains hundreds of original advertisements once featured in farm equipment catalogues.
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Ronald S Barlow has published a series of antique engravings books on antique tools; Victorian hardware, housewares and kitchenware; outhouses; barbershops and old books, magazines, newspapers and trade catalogues. He is the former owner and publisher of Windmill Press.
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300 years of farm implements & machinery 1630 - 1930,
By Ronald Barlow (El Cajon, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 300 Years of Farm Implements and Machinery 1630-1930 (Paperback)
The book begins with American Indian farming methods and ends 300 years later with steam and gasoline powered tractors of the early 1900s. In between you will find inventor biographies, 500 antique engravings and some of the earliest farm implement advertising ever published. Everything from handtools to butter churns, plows, wagons, windmills and threshing machines is covered, including a full-sized reprint of Mongomery Wards 1896 Agricultural Implement Catalog.Farm Industry News said "This 208 page book opens a window to the past with historical facts and 500 antique engravings of machines at work." San Diego Union columnist, Neil Morgan says "I have never seen anything like it. It deserves to be a bestseller."
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