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Judson Yaggy Posted October 7, 2011 Author Share Posted October 7, 2011 The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont has a huge collection of ironwork. They have a decent 19th century functioning blacksmith shop, and a massive collection of tools (both blacksmithing tools and forged tools made for other trades), hinges and door hardware, multiple large barns full of sleigh, carriage and horse related ironwork, home and hearth related pieces, and other metal of interest such as a water powered saw mill and a very large side paddle steamer. I'm not affiliated with the museum, but I took some visiting family there last weekend and snapped several hundred photos.http://shelburnemuseum.org/ These are not replicas, everything there is an actual artifact. I was a little disappointed in the way they are taking care of some of the items, definitely some rust starting in on a lot of stuff. Of course everyone knows that the history of technology is severely undervalued by the Liberal Arts folks who run a lot of museums. I tried to get something for scale in each picture, but didn't always succeed. The peg board seen in a lot of the pictures is a 1" grid. Also tried to get pictures of sides or backs, where forgewelds were, etc. I took so many pictures that I'll be breaking them up into related groups. These are of some of the hinges they have. Some are inside, some are still functional on the buildings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judson Yaggy Posted October 7, 2011 Author Share Posted October 7, 2011 The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont has a huge collection of ironwork. They have a decent 19th century functioning blacksmith shop, and a massive collection of tools (both blacksmithing tools and forged tools made for other trades), hinges and door hardware, multiple large barns full of sleigh, carriage and horse related ironwork, home and hearth related pieces, and other metal of interest such as a water powered saw mill and a very large side paddle steamer. I'm not affiliated with the museum, but I took some visiting family there last weekend and snapped several hundred photos.http://shelburnemuseum.org/ These are not replicas, everything there is an actual artifact. I was a little disappointed in the way they are taking care of some of the items, definitely some rust starting in on a lot of stuff. Of course everyone knows that the history of technology is severely undervalued by the Liberal Arts folks who run a lot of museums. I tried to get something for scale in each picture, but didn't always succeed. The peg board seen in a lot of the pictures is a 1" grid. Also tried to get pictures of sides or backs, where forgewelds were, etc. I took so many pictures that I'll be breaking them up into related groups. These are some of the handles and locks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judson Yaggy Posted October 7, 2011 Author Share Posted October 7, 2011 The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont has a huge collection of ironwork. They have a decent 19th century functioning blacksmith shop, and a massive collection of tools (both blacksmithing tools and forged tools made for other trades), hinges and door hardware, multiple large barns full of sleigh, carriage and horse related ironwork, home and hearth related pieces, and other metal of interest such as a water powered saw mill and a very large side paddle steamer. I'm not affiliated with the museum, but I took some visiting family there last weekend and snapped several hundred photos.http://shelburnemuseum.org/ These are not replicas, everything there is an actual artifact. I was a little disappointed in the way they are taking care of some of the items, definitely some rust starting in on a lot of stuff. Of course everyone knows that the history of technology is severely undervalued by the Liberal Arts folks who run a lot of museums. I tried to get something for scale in each picture, but didn't always succeed. The peg board seen in a lot of the pictures is a 1" grid. Also tried to get pictures of sides or backs, where forgewelds were, etc. I took so many pictures that I'll be breaking them up into related groups. These are hearth and home good items. Suprisingly few andirons, unless I missed them which is a possibility given the volume of this collection. The thing that looks like a mini workshop is a tin toy, they have a good collection of kid's toys too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judson Yaggy Posted October 7, 2011 Author Share Posted October 7, 2011 The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont has a huge collection of ironwork. They have a decent 19th century functioning blacksmith shop, and a massive collection of tools (both blacksmithing tools and forged tools made for other trades), hinges and door hardware, multiple large barns full of sleigh, carriage and horse related ironwork, home and hearth related pieces, and other metal of interest such as a water powered saw mill and a very large side paddle steamer. I'm not affiliated with the museum, but I took some visiting family there last weekend and snapped several hundred photos.http://shelburnemuseum.org/ These are not replicas, everything there is an actual artifact. I was a little disappointed in the way they are taking care of some of the items, definitely some rust starting in on a lot of stuff. Of course everyone knows that the history of technology is severely undervalued by the Liberal Arts folks who run a lot of museums. I tried to get something for scale in each picture, but didn't always succeed. The peg board seen in a lot of the pictures is a 1" grid. Also tried to get pictures of sides or backs, where forgewelds were, etc. I took so many pictures that I'll be breaking them up into related groups. These are the carriages, sleighs, horse tack and fittings, a few HUGE shoes and the meanest bit I've ever seen. Almost looks like a chain saw chain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Thanks for the pictures. I'm looking forward to seeing more. One of the first books I purchased when I got started in smithery was "Blacksmiths and Farriers Tools at Shelburne Museum." The book is an excellent survey of some of their collection, first published in 1966. Author is H. R. Bradley Smith. To be a little nit picky, bridle bits are often pictured and displayed upside down, as the pictured curb bit in your photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ten Hammers Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Thanks for the pics Judson. Original artifact is always the stuff I want to see. You have taken a large amount of your time to do this. Indeed thank you. I now have another option from another area of the country for looking at period ironware. I have a business looking for the book as I type. Perhaps I will be lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judson Yaggy Posted October 7, 2011 Author Share Posted October 7, 2011 Frank- I specifially asked about that book at their book store. The people running the store hadn't even heard about it, and when they asked one of the upper managers I was told it's out of print. Too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 abebooks.com shows 22 copies for sale 3 of them at US$20 and under including shipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 www.bookfinder.com has 96 copies on their lists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake pogrebinsky Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Thank you,Judson,for taking the time to show us all this,i really appreciate your thoughtfullness. Will look forward to seeing more of these extremely interesting photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenylittlemetalguy Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Cool! thanks for sharing these. I have never seen a hinge pin nailed to the mall before. Also liked the deer head hinge alot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob S Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 I'll sell my copy for $20 plus you pay shipping. Good used condition. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judson Yaggy Posted October 8, 2011 Author Share Posted October 8, 2011 Thanks everyone for the responses. I guess I set up all of my original posts in a way that the administrators didn't like as they have combined them all into one. Sorry about the repetitious wording, I thought that I was doing everyone a favor by sorting the threads/photos by subject especially given the oddities of the search function here. When I have a little more time I'll edit out the redundancies now that they lumped it all together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judson Yaggy Posted October 9, 2011 Author Share Posted October 9, 2011 Hmm, now I can't edit my original posts to get rid of the redundant wording. Also can't edit the tags, so on the previous page it looks like this is all about tools. Advise anyone? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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