Issue 231 Winter 2014 Inside Features Annual Meeting Schedule, May 28-31, 2014: There’S Much to Do in Pittsburgh! by Dana Shoaf

Issue 231 Winter 2014 Inside Features Annual Meeting Schedule, May 28-31, 2014: There’s Much To Do in Pittsburgh! by Dana Shoaf...... 4 2014 Nominating Committee Report by Tom Elliott...... 4 Charles Wilson Prine, Jr., 1926-2014...... 5 Regional Meetings Coming to Illinois, Virginia, & Maryland by Denise Richer...... 6 2014’s Eastfield Historic TradesS ampler by John Verrill...... 6 EAIA Web Committee Update by Gary Roberts...... 7 The Fort Pitt Cannon. Pittsburgh, site of the 2014 EAIA Annual Meet- Endowment Fund Annual Update by Richard Cunningham...... 7 ing, is a modern city with a rich historical background.

Departments The President’s Page By Paul Van Pernis, President EAIA...... 2 From the Executive Director by John Verrill, Executive Director...... 3 Short Subjects...... 8 Apply Now for 2014 Research Grants • Get Your Passport Updated for the 2015 Annual Meeting in Canada! • Connect to EAIA on Facebook • Colonial Armoury Featured at M-WTCA Meet in April • Crafts of NJ Announces Spring Auction • Old Sturbridge Village Offers Crafts & Cheesemak- ing • ALHFAM Heads to Calgary • Winter Conference in Williamsburg: Arts of the Coastal South & Millinery • Win- terthur Announces Forums on Furniture & Ceramics Welcome to the New Members of the EAIA.....8 Calendar...... 12

EAIA Past President Tom Elliott at the 2013 Eastfield Historic Trades Sampler. This year’s event is set for July 17-20. The Early American Industries Association www.earlyamericanindustries.org The President’s Page John H. Verrill, Executive Director P.O. Box 524, Hebron, MD 21830 EAIA Continues to Move Ahead in 2014 [email protected] By Paul Van Pernis, President EAIA Welcome to e-Shavings eing president of an organization like EAIA is always a lot easier We hope you like this electronic version of Shavings, with its Bwhen you’re blessed with good people doing good work for the color illustrations and easy navigation. Please note that you benefit of the members of the organization. EAIA has lots of those can click on any item in the table of contents and you will good people! John Verrill in his role as Executive Director kept EAIA be directed to the proper page. The contents of e-Shavings in the black again during the last fiscal year, so EAIA remains finan- is the same as the paper edition except that this version cially stable. All of the EAIA board members have pitched in on our has color photographs and the contact information for all membership initiative headed up by Pam Howard, and we’re begin- officers, directors, heads of activities, and members listed ning to see growth in the number of new members. Under Richard above has been removed in order to protect their privacy. Cunningham’s leadership the EAIA Endowment Fund continues to You may find that information in theAnnual Directory or contact the executive director at executivedirector@ grow and provides much needed revenue to help keep EAIA finan- EarlyAm ericanIndustries.org. cially sound both now and in the future. Dana Shoaf and Heidi Campbell-Shoaf have put together a All members receive the paper Shavings, and all members great annual meeting for 2014 in Pittsburgh. We’ll see some great for whom we have an e-mail address will receive both editions. If you find the PDF satisfactory and are willing historic sites and enjoy some great lectures and demonstrations as to forego the paper edition, please send an e-mail to well. The dates are May 28 through May 31. The meeting brochure executivedirector@EarlyAm ericanIndustries.org, and we will be on the website and in your mailbox in the very near future. will take your name off the mailing list for paper Shavings. Come join us for lots of fun and learning in Pittsburgh. Put “Subscribe to e-Shavings” in the subject line. You will Denise Richer has also scheduled several regional meetings continue to receive all other EAIA mailings on paper. during 2014. A listing of those upcoming meetings is included in Officers 2013-2014 this issue of Shavings. Check it out and plan on attending a meeting or two. The Eastfield Village Historic Trades Sampler is sched- President 2nd Vice President: Paul Van Pernis Denise Richer uled for July 17-20. It’s a wonderful experience spending days Ashland, WI Baldwinsville, NY and nights in this collection of historic buildings learning historic 1st Vice President Secretary: trades in hands-on classes under the tutelage of masters. & Treasurer Robert Roemer Patrick Lasswell Bolton, MA The website continues to evolve. Gary Roberts and his hard- Spring, TX working committee are using their skills to continually improve the Directors 2013-2014 website. Gary has a full report on the progress in this issue of Shav- Chris Bender Rodney Richer ings on page 7. The new site should be up and running this spring. Shoreham, NY Baldwinsville, NY Clarence Blanchard Marshall T. Scheetz I’d encourage you to visit the new site then (www.earlyamericanin- Pownal, ME Williamsburg, VA dustries.org) and see what’s new, and let Gary know what you think Richard Cunningham Dana Shoaf about the website changes. The website also needs your content; Forest, VA Burkittsville, MD photographs, articles, and interesting tidbits, and especially your Ross Gibson Roy Shoalts North East, MD Wainfleet, ON,C anada input to help EAIA reach out to anyone with an interest in early Pam Howard Bruce Van Hart American tools and trades and hopefully our association. Brasstown, NC Prince Frederick, MD I’m very grateful for all of the members of our Board of Di- David Lauer Don Wallace Churchville, PA Haddonfield, NJ rectors and standing committees. They’re working hard to make EAIA better. If you have the opportunity, take the time to thank a Committee Chairs Board member or committee member for their hard work. Annual Meeting Regional Meetings And finally, thanks to all of you who have renewed your mem- Dana Shoaf and Heidi Denise Richer bership, given gift memberships, or encouraged someone to join Campbell-Shoaf Research Grants Awards Jay Gaynor EAIA! Your continued interest in Early American Industries and Roger K. Smith and Dan Semel Web-site Committee your ongoing support of EAIA both financially and by your par- Endowment Fund Gary Roberts ticipation in the programs and activities of EAIA are what make it Richard Cunningham www.earlyamericanindustries.org Long-Range Planning Sara Holmes, webmaster all possible. Thank you! I hope you’ll take the time in 2014 to enjoy Denise Richer webmaster@e arlyamerican all the publications, programs and benefits of EAIA membership. industries.org Membership Pam Howard Whatsits Terry Page Nominating 6655 Soper Rd., Perry, NY 14530 Tom Elliott (585) 237-5098 Publications [email protected] Clarence Blanchard From the Executive Director by John Verrill, Executive Director Shavings appy New Year! It is always exciting to begin the year with all of its Hpromise for new and interesting experiences. For the EAIA staff, the Number 231 Winter 2014 new year means processing your membership renewals, looking for new Patty MacLeish, Editor ways to serve you, encouraging authors to contribute to the store of knowl- The Early American Industries Association preserves and edge that gets published in The Chronicle, disseminating information about presents historic trades, crafts, and tools and interprets their the Research Grants program, and working with various committees to see impact on our lives. Membership in the EAIA is open to any that the work of the association continues. person or organization sharing its interests and purposes. We are also working to get all of the information for the Annual Meeting compiled so that we can get our brochure printed and mailed For information about the EAIA or to join, please visit out to you by the end of January. Our Annual Meeting hosts this year www.EarlyAm ericanIndustries.org. You may also contact Executive Director John Verrill, P.O. Box 524, Hebron, are Dana Shoaf and Heidi Campbell-Shoaf. He has worked diligently to MD 21830 or e-mail him at plan a meeting that is sure to please everyone with its variety of activi- [email protected] ties and opportunities for having fun. Dana has plans to introduce us to a Pittsburgh that many of us may not know existed. Although the city Shavings is the newsletter of the Early American In- is still home to lots of industry, it has also been transformed into one of dustries Association, Inc., and is published quarterly the country’s most desirable small cities with clean air, great museums, in February, April, July, and November. An electron- beautiful parks, and lots of interesting attractions. We hope you will plan ic version is available to all members who have pro- to attend. More information is located in Dana’s report elsewhere in this vided the EAIA with an e-mail address. To opt-out issue just in case you want to get a jump start and make your reservations of receiving the print version of Shavings e-mail [email protected]. early! Oh, and lest we forget, we hope you’ll begin searching your shop for The current and past issues (beginning with issue 204) of things that can be added to the silent auction. Shavings is available at www.e arlyamericanindustries.org. Regional meetings are great fun and a chance to share our common interests, but to me they are also a very important tool for helping to keep Editor: Patty MacLeish, 31 Walnut St., Newport, RI the EAIA a robust and growing association. We really do encourage all 02840; 401-846-7542; [email protected] [Include members to think about having a regional meeting at an historic site or “Shavings” in subject line.] museum in your area. It is a win-win for all concerned. EAIA members The deadline for the next issue (no. 232 Spring get to come together for some tool trading, an opportunity to share lunch, 2014) is February 28, 2014. to listen to an interesting presentation, and to have a tour of the historic site or museum. The host site wins by having some exposure to a large Opt-out of paper Shavings: Members may request to international audience and gets to put a few dollars in the admissions box. receive only the e-version of Shavings, send an e-mail to On Saturday, May 3, we’ll convene in Northern Virginia at the Aldie executivedirector@e arlyamericanindustries.org. Mill (www.nvrpa.org/park/aldie_mill_historic_park) in Aldie, Virginia. Include your name and address in the e-mail. No print version We’ll have tool trading in the parking lot, a tour of the mill, a box lunch will be sent and a special presentation on historic clock works and restoration by Mal- Submissions: EAIA’s Shavings is a member-driven newslet- colm Collum. Malcolm has been the chief conservator at the Smithson- ter. Contributions are always welcome and needed. Please ian National Air and Space Museum since 2008. The site is close to our observe the deadlines. members in the Washington, D.C.-area and is within a two-hour drive from members in Maryland, Delaware, southern Pennsylvania, northeast Reporting an Address Change: Please notify Execu- West Virginia, and southeast New Jersey. Another date to keep in mind tive Director six weeks before the change. Contact infor- is the Annual Antique Tool Show and Sale with members of EAIA and mation above. M-WTCA at the Garfield Farm Museum in LaFox, Illinois, on August Advertising: Turn to page 11 for more information and 3. We’ll announce others as they become available—I’m working on one advertising rates. right here near our Maryland office for the fall. Details to follow, but you might want to check out the site of our newest institutional member, the Requesting a replacement copy. Contact Executive Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum in Snow Hill, Maryland (www. Director John Verrill (see contact information above). furnacetown.com/). Shavings is printed by Cayuga Press, 215 S. Main St., Cor- EAIA 2nd Vice President Denise Richer is the regional meeting com- tland, NY 13045; 607-299-0500. Both Shavings and The mittee chair; you can contact her at [email protected] for a copy of our Chronicle are available on microfilm from UMI, 300 Zeeb Planning Guide or to set up a meeting. Rd., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. Here is to a happy, healthy and prosperous new year to all! © 2014 EAIA Annual Meeting Schedule, May 28-31, 2014 There’s Much To Do in Pittsburgh! by Dana Shoaf e hope you have made your plans to attend our annual meet- Wing. A brochure outlining our activities should be in your mail soon, if you haven’t already received it. It also gives all the details about the fees and hotel. (If you haven’t received yours yet, e-mail John Verrill, [email protected].) We know you’ll have a great time in Pittsburgh, which has been highly ranked as one of the most livable cities in America. It also has a rich history and we will be exploring many aspects of that during our stay. We are so sorry to report that longtime EAIA member Charles W. Prine, Jr., who was scheduled to speak about his collection of planes at the Heinz History Center, died in early January at age 87. He was well known to many in the EAIA and Above. A trolley at the Heinz History Center, one of the sites EAIA added much to the scholarship of tools (see facing page). member will visit during the annual meeting in Pittsburgh. Below. Tom Densmore made this 88-inch high cherry Philadelphia clock for 2014 Nominating Committee Report the Silent Auction. It’s based on one made by Davi Rittenhouse and he Nominating Committee of the Early American Indus- illustrated in Wallace Nutting’s Furniture Treasury. tries Association proposes the following slate of officers T We are happy to announce that on Thurs- and directors for the upcoming year. day there will be two special presentations at Old For the Board of Directors of the EAIA: Economy, the Pennsylvania and Historical Muse- • Bill Rainford, Merrimack, New Hampshire (first term) um Commission’s acclaimed restoration of a nine- • Richard Cunningham, Forest, Virginia (second term) teenth-century Utopian community. In “Furniture • Roy Shoalts, Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada (second term) of the Community” Old Economy staff member • Don Wallace, Haddonfield, New Jersey (second term) Bob Clendenon will discuss the unique furniture Members of the Board of Directors of the EAIA are vot- made by the community. The museum owns many ed on by the full membership. The ballot, along with state- of the commune’s original tools, and a cabinet- ments from the candidates, will be included in the Spring is- maker’s shop is part of our tour. Emily Lapisardo, sue of Shavings. another member of the staff at Old Economy will The officers of the EAIA are elected by the membership portray Gertrude Rapp, wife of community found- in attendance at the annual meeting. Currently there are no er George Rapp, as she describes the Rappites fas- vacancies for officers. cinating and profitable silk industry. Additional candidates for board members and officers On Friday during our visit to Fort Pitt, Mu- may be nominated by the membership at large as provided by seum Director and early firearms expert Alan the By-Laws, Article II, Section 1 (which reads in part): Gutchess will discuss the flintlock weapons used by At least 90 days prior to the annual business meeting, the Nom- inating Committee shall inform the membership of the num- Native Americans and Europeans on the frontier. ber of vacancies and the names of the members it nominates One of the interpreters at the Fort will explain the to serve as Directors, thereafter, within 30 days, members can daily life of a soldier of the 60th Royal American send additional nominations to the Secretary. A member, who Regiment, the primary unit that was garrisoned at receives 25 or more nominations from the membership at large the Fort. and signifies a willingness to serve, will be added to the list pro- posed by the Nominating Committee. Saturday afternoon, Mark S. Johnson, of the Daguerreian Society, will present “November 2, 1839: A New Indus- Additional names should be sent to Secretary Robert Ro- try Arrives in America. The Story of the Daguerreotype.” emer, 185 Main St., Bolton, MA 01740 or by phone (978) 779- 6954, or e-mail [email protected]. Display and Tool Exchange Thanks to my fellow members of the Nominating Com- One of the most anticipated parts of our annual meeting mittee Bill Curtis and Chris Bender. is the tool display on Saturday morning. It is held in conjunc- Respectfully submitted tion with the tool sale and trading show. Did you know that in Tom Elliott, Chairman, Nominating Committee continued next page Shavings 231 Page 4 Winter 2014 Charles Wilson Prine, Jr., 1926-2014 AIA member Chuck Prine, a Pittsburgh native, died January 11, board member with Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. He E2014. Most EAIA members knew Chuck as the author of one believed strongly in the principles of integrity and generosity of the very important books on the history of planemaking, Plane- and was committed to making a significant contribution to the makers of Western Pennsylvania and Environs. Born in Pittsburgh, welfare of his community. In recent years Chuck advocated on Chuck was a veteran of the Navy and a graduate of Princeton, where behalf of older Americans who were unaware of the devastating he received a BA in English in 1948. He worked as a reporter for the risks of their investments in continuing care retirement com- Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph and as freelance writer. Later he worked in munities. He testified on this issue for the U.S. Senate’s Special public relations, finally joining Ryan Homes where he helped develop Committee on Aging in July of 2012 and was featured in the low and middle income housing programs in Pittsburgh. He eventu- New York Times and The Chicago Tribune. ally became the senior vice president of Ryan Homes as it grew to be He is survived by his wife of thirty years, Elizabeth Waite one of the nations largest homebuilders. Prine, his children, Dr. Linda Prine of New York City, Janet Chuck was also a life long civic leader. He served as an elder Rivera, Karen Prine, Barbara Prine, and Alison Prine. He was with Bower Hill Community Church. Chuck committed end- predeceased by his son, Roger Prine of Charlottesville Virginia. less hours working on the boards of numerous organizations Chuck donated his collection of more than 200 planes, including serving as the president of Action-Housing Inc., and a among them some of the oldest documented items made in the Pittsburgh region, to the Heinz History Center where they are Annual Meeting continued from previous page part of the permanent collection. Chuck contributed many ar- 1815, plane making was the twelfth most important industry in ticles, whatsits answers and comments to The Chronicle. (The Pittsburgh? Plane makers got premium prices for their goods. articles are available on the dvd of The Chronicle.) As a tip of the hat to Pittsburgh’s important role in providing Chuck had been slated to speak at the annual meeting this goods that were shipped down the Ohio River to enable Ameri- spring, and it seems fitting to include a short excerpt from his ca’s rapid growth, this year’s theme will be: “Tools for the New article, “The Harmonists Founded an Early Religious Industri- Frontier: 1790 to 1840.” Want to know what the first eleven al-Agrarian Society and Made Their Own Tools,” (The Chron- important industries were? Come to the meeting and find out! icle 51, no. 4 [1998]:101–105) concerned the Rappists of Old The meeting brochure contains the information for reserv- Economy. The selection provides a small taste of Chuck engag- ing a table for both a display and for the tool exchange. Fill it out ing writing style and humor. soon to reserve your place. 1 1 The most striking plane is a 15 ⁄2 inches long, 8 ⁄4-inches wide Speaking of reservations, the cut-off date for our great $99 a (including fence) crown molding or cornice plane with a 5-inch night rate at the Sheraton Airport Hotel is May 7. That’s also the iron that cuts a lying ogee profile. This plane, and another last day to register for the meeting. After that date, there will be which appears to be a halving or half-lap plane, bear the marks an additional $20 late charge. HARMONY and 1822 on their toes. The date strongly suggests that these planes were made by one of the original German Har- Evening Programs monists while the Society was based in Indiana. Bring your whatsits to our Annual Meeting and see if you There are a few planes with early characteristics and a dif- can stump the experts. A perennial favorite, the Whatsits Ses- ferent mark which this writer believes were made prior to 1814 while the Harmonists were still at their first location in Har- sion takes place on Thursday evening following the newest mony, Pennsylvania. This mark has been mistaken for that of an EAIA event—a new event that seems to have already become a unidentified planemaker by the name of H. Monie. favorite—the Ice Cream Social. The writer obtained by public sale the only H. Monie plane On Friday afternoon, we’ll have a preview of the Great he has heard of outside of the Old Economy Cabinet Shop. If Planes Auction put together by Mike Urness. The auction gets any collector happens to have such a plane, he can quit looking for a record of a planemaker named Harry or Herman Monie. underway at 6:30 p.m. He didn’t make these planes. The mark is an abbreviation of The Silent Auction, one of the highlights of the meeting, the original German spelling of Harmonie. The final line of the begins during the pre-dinner cocktail hour. Remember to bring Articles of Association drawn up and signed by the Harmonists, something to add to the auction and don’t forget to bid. You won’t who organized the new town, reads as follows: “So done, Har- be disappointed with the variety and quality of the items that will monie, Feb. 15, 1805” be offered. After dinner and the business meeting, Dan Mattausch Letters written by George Rapp, the leader of the Harmony Society, usually used the word Harmonie and a date at the top of the Rushlight Club will demonstrate historic lighting. The of the page. The connotation of the word when employed by the Rushlight Club was founded in 1932 for the study and preserva- Harmonists involved more than location. It was used to define tion of lighting. The collecting and researching interests of mem- the Society as a state of communal living, man being in harmony bers range from the earliest primitive lighting devices through with God. lighting by gas and electricity. It should be illuminating!

Shavings 231 Page 5 Winter 2014 Regional Meetings Coming to Virginia, Illinois, Maryland by Denise Richer n Saturday, May 3, the EAIA will convene in Northern Vir- Aldie Mill survives today as one of the best preserved historic mills Oginia at the Aldie Mill (www.nvrpa.org/park/aldie_mill_his- in Virginia and the Commonwealth’s only known mill powered by toric_park) in Aldie, Virginia, for what should be a timely regional twin overshot wheels. meeting. The day will begin with tool trading in the parking lot, Aldie Mill is close to our members in the Washington, D.C.- followed by a tour of the mill, a box lunch, and a special presenta- area and is within a two-hour drive from Maryland, Delaware, tion on historic clock works and restoration. The speaker will be southern Pennsylvania, northeast West Virginia, and southeast Malcolm Collum, the chief conservator at the Smithsonian National New Jersey. The mill is located on Route 50, but is close to Route Air and Space Museum, a position he has held since 2008. 66 which has access to both Interstate 81 and 95. The restored Aldie Mill, an imposing four-story brick struc- Coming Up—Garfield Farm and Furnace Town ture with tandem metal overshot waterwheels, offers visitors a The Annual Antique Tool Show and Sale with members of glimpse of how life was lived in the rural South during a time when EAIA and M-WTCA at the Garfield Farm Museum in LaFox, the mill served as a vital center of the community. The merchant Illinois, will be held on the first Sunday in August (August 3, mill and store house, the oldest structures in the present Aldie Mill 2014.) For information about having a table or display please complex, were built between 1807 and 1809 by William Cooke for contact Jerry Johnson at the museum [email protected] the noted legislator and reformer Charles Fenton Mercer. A brick A date in November has yet to be selected for a regional meet- granary erected to the west of the main structure between 1809 ing right near our Maryland office. Details will follow, but you and 1816, and a smaller brick country mill that Mercer erected might want to check out the site of our newest institutional member, to the east of the merchant mill in 1816, are also at the site. Dur- the Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum in Snow Hill, Mary- ing Mercer’s proprietorship, Aldie Mill emerged as the largest land. Learn more about the Museum at www.furnacetown.com, and manufactory of its kind in Loudoun County. The mill’s five run of mark you calendar now to attend both events. French flint burrstones turned wheat into superfine flour for com- mercial export. President James Monroe had his grain ground here Denise Richer, EAIA Vice President, is the regional meeting commit- while living at neighboring Oak Hill. Descendants of Captain John tee chair, you can contact her at [email protected] for a copy of Moore, the miller to whom Mercer sold the property in 1835, oper- our Planning Guide; to set up a meeting, or to get more information. ated the mill continuously for six generations until it closed in 1971. 2014’s Eastfield Historic TradesS ampler he dates for the 2014 Eastfield Historic Trades Sampler, have aration of the dinner in itself is a gratifying experience, espe- Tbeen set: Thursday, July 17 through Sunday, July 20, at East- cially when one sees old and new friends rolling up their sleeves field Village, East Nassau, New York. This schedule gives more to help. On the other nights, the group generally enlivens a local people an opportunity to attend. The event’s name, Eastfield His- restaurant for dinner at their own expense. On two other eve- toric Trades Sampler, reflects what we offer—a sampler of various nings we gather in the tavern for games and drinks. Wonderful trades with an opportunity to learn about them while completing a stories are heard during the evenings, some nearly believable. small project. As we go to press, we are in the process of planning Eastfield is a village of historic buildings that were brought to the schedule and hope to have programs like document box making, the east field of Don Carpentier’s farm in East Nassau, New York, weaving, distilling, blacksmithing and decorative painting. To see over a period of forty years. Students are welcome to stay in several some of the products of last year’s Sampler read the article in the of these buildings, which have been restored to their eighteenth- Fall 2013 (issue 230) Shavings available at earlyamericanindustries. and nineteenth-century appearance. We hope you will mark your org/publications.html. calendars and plan to attend this year. Registration information and Here’s how the Sampler works: there are two different a full schedule will be available on our Web site in March. workshops each day. The classes start at 9 a.m. and there is a Classes are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. The lunch provided in the tavern from noon until 1 p.m., at which cost is $485 for the four days and includes the daily workshops, time the afternoon session of the workshops resume. In many morning coffee, lunch, and the Tavern dinner. Some of the work- cases the afternoon workshops are a continuation of what was shops will have a modest materials fee. presented in the morning. The workshops end around 5 p.m. Registration and payment may be sent to John Verrill, Included in the registration fee is a daily lunch and on Sat- Executive Director, EAIA, PO Box 524, Hebron, MD 21830. urday a terrific dinner which is cooked in the tavern kitchen, Checks are to be made payable to EAIA-Eastfield. usually by former EAIA President Judy McMillen and anyone else willing to help (that means you, too). Helping with the prep-

Shavings 231 Page 6 Winter 2014 EAIA Web Committee Update by Gary Roberts, Web Committee Chair here is a new EAIA website in the works! The new Web TCommittee has been hard at work building a new site from the ground up, based on a Wordpress theme. The Web Commit- tee is made up of volunteers who have been invaluable in what is a time-consuming task.We are so grateful to all the work that Sara Holmes put into the website starting in 2011. I am serving as chair on the new committee and Bill Rainford (rainford@ eaiainfo.org) is the Web manager. Other committee members are Zachary Dillinger, Jane Rees, Marshall Scheetz, Dwight Beebe, and Max Withers. The new EAIA website will include many of the features of the original site—a shop, announcements of upcoming events, photo galleries and EAIA-specific documents. There will be many new features such as member blogs, expanded membership image galleries, archived EAIA documents, online document features, and quite possibly forums, both public and members-only, as the site is developed. I would particularly like to express my thanks and apprecia- tion to Bill Rainford, whose dedication and considerable work in this project has been essential and without which we would not be where we are today. The behind-the-scenes work of fixing A sneak-peek at the new Web site, scheduled to be completed early in the spring. Endowment Fund Annual Update CSS and HTML code, installing and customizing Wordpress ow! Thanks everyone for another successful EAIA themes and plugins, and conducting the many trial-and-error WEndowment Fund year. Our members have contin- experiments that are part of the creation of a new website are ued to contribute to the fund toward our goal of $500,000. often done by a team of software people. Bill has been our ‘team’ We are well on our way. The value of the fund as of De- with my kibitizing over his shoulder. cember 31, 2012, was $354,905.84, and as of December 31, Although there is a web committee, we would like to assure 2013, was $426,887.06, an increase of $71,981.22. While the the membership that this is not a fixed committee. If you are fund has been helped by a favorable market in the last several interested in participating in the web committee during the site years, its growth in large part is due to the contributions of creation process and in time, in the regular operations of the its members. There were eighty-three individual contribu- website, please don’t hesitate to contact either Bill or me. Even tors for a total $8,379.00, which together with a bequest from more so, if you are interested in blogging, having an image gal- the Cole family in the amount of $25,000.00, resulted in total lery or have other ideas for a feature you would like to either see contributions of $33,379.00. This was the most successful happen or you would like to create and take responsibility for year since 2004 when the fund was launched and received its (and we can provide some instruction if need be), again, please initial contributions. As was the case this past year, growth of get in touch. You don’t have to be a committee member to blog, the fund comes from individual contributors, large and small, run an image gallery or a site feature. bequests, donations of items for sale at auction, and donation The long term goal of the EAIA web site is for this to be of time as runners at auction events. the online “voice” of the Association, a gathering place for like- The committee looks forward to your continued support minded individuals to share experiences, information and to en- through bequests, estate planning, and continued monetary joy the legacy we have created since 1933. contributions. Keep an eye on the EAIA website for further More than anything else, feedback from the membership is information about the fund and ways you can help us reach our essential in the development of the website. Please speak up if goal. you have suggestions, material to submit, or would like to be Thanks again and best wishes for a Happy New Year! involved. Contact me at [email protected]. Richard. P. Cunningham Endowment Fund Chairman

Shavings 231 Page 7 Winter 2014 materials may be filled out and submitted Quebec City is rated as one of the Short Subjects online. The deadline for the 2014 EAIA top ten cities to visit in the entire world Research Grants program is Saturday, and is the most popular city to visit in Apply Now for 2014 March 15. If further information is needed Canada. European charm, history, cul- Research Grants or there are questions about the program’s ture, and fun await you in this city that is ince 1979, the Early American Indus- mission please call our executive director more than 400 years old. This walled city Stries Association has awarded grants at 410-749-1965. is a fascinating blend of French and Eng- to individuals and institutions for research lish influences. Old Quebec’s designation projects that promote the purpose of the Get Your Passport Updated as a Unesco World Heritage Site ensures EAIA. The grants, which are awarded that there will be plenty to see and do. in amounts up to $3,000, may be used to for the 2015 Annual supplement existing fellowships, scholar- Meeting in Canada! Connect to EAIA on ships, or other forms of aid. In 2013, two lans are coming together for EAIA’s grants were awarded. One of the grants was 2015 Annual Meeting in Quebec City Facebook P ho Me? On Facebook? Yes You! awarded to James Andrew Neill, of Win- in Ontario, Canada. The meeting is be- Type in Facebook in your search ston-Salem, North Carolina, for his project, ing hosted by Roy and Vivian Shoalts and W engine on your computer. Once you get to “‘He Who Dwells in Our Town Shall Dress will be held Wednesday, May 13, through the Facebook page type in Early Ameri- as a Brother’ The Business of a Tailor Shop Saturday, May 16, 2015, at the Hotel Am- can Industries Association in the search in a Moravian Town,” which will study the bassadeur in Quebec City, Canada. We’re bar or enter this link www.facebook.com/ history of tailor shops in a Moravian com- asking you to mark your calendars now groups/71337049969/ (If you are reading munity. His research will be used in docu- because our U.S. members will need an the e-version of , you can simply menting and interpreting the tailor shop at up-to-date passport for this trip. Check to Shavings click on the link and you will be directed Old Salem Museum and Gardens in North make sure yours is current or think about to the page.)With either link you’ll come to Carolina. Holly Ketcham, of Liverpool, New obtaining one so you can enjoy this fabu- our page and find lots of interesting posts: York, was awarded a grant for her research lous city and a great EAIA Annual Meet- Whatsits, events, announcements and other project on the manufacture of axes with an ing in 2015. Information about obtaining information like a video shared by EAIA emphasis on the Daniel Simmons Axe & or renewing your passport is available at member Irwin Sitkin of the world’s lon- Edge Tool Company of Cohoes, New York. www.travel.state.gov. Stay tuned for more gest trucks that are used in Australia. It is a The applications are available at information about the EAIA 2015 Annual place to get and share information, and we earlyamericanindustries.org/grants.html. Meeting on our webpage and in future is- hope you enjoy it! The grant application and supplemental sues of Shavings.

Welcome to the New Members of the EAIA Mr. Len Bonis, 233 Rochelle Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19128 Mr. Matthew Moore, 120 Mimosa Dr., Decatur, GA 30030 Mr. David J. Brill, 27254 Telstar, Chesterfield, MI 48051 Mr. Andrian Paquette, 268 Walcott St., Pawtucket, RI 02860 Mr. Ben Cogger, 829 West 4th St., Duluth, MN 55806 Mr. Michael Ra, P.O. Box 1061, Ocala, FL 34478 Mr. E.J. DesLauriers, 24 Ladyslipper Lane, Brasstown, NC 28902 Mr. Robert Rebal, 7 Doty Avenue, Danvers, MA 01923 Mr. Robert Eagan, 1227 Bonair Rd., Forest Hill, MD 21050 Mr. Carl Roberto, 406 Bowerhill Rd., Venetia, PA 15367 Furnacetown Foundation, P.O. Box 207, Snowhill, MD 21863 Mr. Tim Ryan, P.O. Box 39, Brasstown, NC 28902 Erik Goldstein, Colonial Williamsburg, Box 1774, Williams- Mr. Robert Schmick, Willowbrook Village, P.O. Box 28, New- burg, VA 23187 field, ME 04056 Mr. John L. Graham, 308 Fay Ave., Salisbury, MD 21801 Mr. Allan Smiles, 1121 Vaughn Avenue, Ashland, WI 54806 Dr. & Mrs. Henry Hood, 3200 Country Club Rd. SW, Lancaster, Mr. John E. Stuart, 265 Hooded Warbler Ln., Nellisford, VA 22958 OH 43130 Ms. Jennifer Van Haaften, Curator, Old World Wisconsin, W372 Mr. Michael Hyink, 14510 McIntosh Ln SE, Tenino, WA 98589 S9727 Hwy 67, P.O. Box 69, Eagle, WI 53119 Mr. Matt Jenkins, 785 Cloverdale Rd., St. Andrews, MB Mr. Thomas Vitanza, 4801A Urbana Pike, Gambrill House, R1A 4J8, Canada Frederick, MD 21704 Mr. Philip T. Jones, 7024 Hornet Lane, McLean, VA 22101 Mr. John Whitman, 16 Keeler Ave., Moravia, NY 13118 Mr. Wally Kunkel, 63 Drakes Town Rd., Hackettstown, NJ 07840 Mr. Roger Winborne, III, 376 Woods Ave. SW, Roanoke, VA Mr. Mike Livdahl, 3717 37th Ave. SW, Seattle, WA 98126 24016 Mr. Timothy Mancl, 71 David Brearly Ct., Princeton, NJ 08540 Mr. Jim Wirth, 1013 Huron Trail, Jamestown, OH 45335 Mr. Bob Maus, W323S784 Cherry Ln., Mukwonago, WI 53149 Mr. Max Withers, 8300 Polar Dr., Austin, TX 78757 Ms. Jackie McDaniel, 5910 Santo Domingo Court, New Bern, Mo Yarborough, P.O. Box 505, Mountain Home, NC 28758 NC 28560

Shavings 231 Page 8 Winter 2014 Colonial Armoury Featured lonial Williamsburg day ticket. If you have $15 to tailgate and join CRAFTS at the at M-WTCA Meet in April any questions, contact Woody Davis (804) same time. Food service will be available 758-3196 or [email protected]. and benefits the Oldwick Fire Company AIA members are invited to attend the The employee parking lot is on Nas- Local hotels include Courtyard Leba- M-WTCA Area S meeting at Colonial E sau Street, across from the Museum. Look non (908-236-8500) or Fountain Motel, Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, on for the “M-WTCA” sign. For those with (908-236-6322. For more information visit April 12. The program will focus on Co- a GPS, the museum address is 325 West www.craftsofnj.org/index.php/auction or lonial Williamsburg’s James Anderson’s Francis Street, Williamsburg, Virginia.). contact Greg Welsh (908) 439-3266,or Blacksmith Shop and Public Armoury, Numerous hotels are available for per- Steve Zluky (908) 534-2710. which opened on November 16, 2013. sons desiring to spend the night. Visitors The day begins with tool trading in the may consider staying at one of the Colo- Old Sturbridge Village employee parking lot at the DeWitt Wallace nial Williamsburg Hotels. Call (888) 965- Museum at 8 a.m. Next is a business meeting Offers Crafts & 7254 for information and reservations. in the Hennage Auditorium in the museum at Cheesemaking 10:30 a.m. followed at 11 a.m. by a panel dis- ld Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, cussion, “Building the Public Armoury,” with Crafts of NJ Announces OMassachusetts, invites one and all to Colonial Williamsburg Trades people featur- Spring Auction learn a historical craft at the “Crafts at Close ing a blacksmith, carpenter, mason, and his- RAFTS of NJ will hold its annual Range” program on Saturday, March 8, torian. (Learn more about the reconstruction Cspring auction on April 12 in at Old- 2014, to Sunday, March 9. Later in March on of the Armoury at whatsnew.history.org/top- wick Fire House, Rt 523 in Oldwick, New the 24th, there will be a nineteenth-century ics/armoury/). Lunch is at noon after which Jersey. The auction is open to the public. cheesemaking workshop at the Freeman everyone will visit the new Armoury and Auction starts at 9:30 a.m.; lots are avail- Farm kitchen. “Crafts at Close Rang” are other areas of Colonial Williamsburg. able for inspection beginning at 7:30 a.m. adult workshops including blacksmithing, The cost is $40 and includes morning Tool tailgating begins at 6 a.m. Tailgating textiles, coopering, foodways, and more. Vis- refreshments, lunch, program, and the Co- is free to members. Non-members can pay it www.osv.org/event for details.

A Challenge— Wanted: Who Will Help Preserve Useful hand tools, all trades, woodworking, machinist, the Skill of Hand Carving mechanic, blacksmith. Shop and estate lots in coastal (Dutch) Wooden Shoes? NE. America’s last master wooden-shoe Liberty Tool Co. carver (age 88 & slowing down) has a complete set of tools available (sponsor of the Davistown Museum) and will help you learn the craft. 888-405-2007. • 501 (c) (3) donations also solicited. Bob Siegel Open March – December [email protected] Check website for hours and photo tour. (262) 242-1571 www.jonesport-wood.com

Shavings 231 Page 9 Winter 2014 ALHFAM Heads to Calgary foundation for the Antiques Forum 2015: ervation and Collections at George Wash- he Association for Living History, the Southern Backcountry. Scheduled ington’s Mount Vernon. TFarm and Agricultural Museums speakers include J. Thomas Savage, direc- The CW Millinery Shop celebrates will hold its annual meeting June 21-25 at tor of museum affairs at The Henry Fran- the sixtieth anniversary of its opening with Heritage Park Historical Village in Cal- cis DuPont Winterthur Museum, Carter “Millinery through Time” on March 16 - gary, Alberta, Canada. The theme of the Hudgins II, director of preservation and 19. “Millinery through Time” will explore meeting will be “Innovators and Entrepre- education at Charleston’s Drayton Hall the development of the trade from the eigh- neurs: Risk Taking in Living History.” Plantation, and Carol Cadou, the Robert teenth century, dealing with thousands of Alberta is the heart of the Canadian H. Smith Vice President for Historic Pres- fashionable accessories, to the twenty-first ranching industry and the recognized oil capital of Canada. Heritage Park tells the significant, vital story of the settlement of Gear Up with the NAWCC the Canadian west from the 1860s to the School of Horology for 1950s. What better place to discuss risk taking in living history and interpretation? exciting workshops! Topics include: Winter Conference in Clock Repair Williamsburg: Arts of the Watch Repair Coastal South & Millinery Case Repair and Restoration olonial Williamsburg is presenting Dial Painting and Cits first ever two-year schedule for Reverse Glass Painting its annual Colonial Williamsburg An- Watch and Clock Identification tiques Forum. On February 14-18, CW and Valuation will present “New Findings in the Arts Workshops are held at of the Coastal South,” plumbing recent The National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia, PA — developments in topics such as southern the home of all the time in the world! portraiture, early Annapolis cabinetmak- Visit www.horology.edu to view the ing, and Charleston silver, to name but a latest workshop schedule or call few. These presentations will provide a 717.684.8261 for more information.

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Shavings 231 Page 10 Winter 2014 century, specializing in a single fashionable their ceramics, whether they were acquir- item: hats. ing fashionable new dinnerware or figures Calendar Find more information at history.org/ during the 1700s or, later, were research- Delaware Wilmington, March 5-8. Winterthur Fur- history/institute/institute_about.cfm. ing and collecting antiques. Experience niture Forum, “Philadelphia Furniture : New lectures presenting new research as well Inquiries and Insights.” Details on page 11. Winterthur Announces as hands-on workshops offering up close Illinois Forums on Furniture & access to the Winterthur collection. The topics include: “The History of Dutch Ce- Garfield, August 3. The Annual Antique Ceramics ramics Influenced by Chinese and Japanese Tool Show and Sale with members of EAIA and M-WTCA at the Garfield Farm his year’s Sewell C. Biggs Winter- Porcelain, 1600–1800,” “European Red- Museum. For information about having a Tthur Furniture Forum, “Philadelphia wares: Drinking Tea in Holland, England, Furniture: New Inquiries and Insights,” table or display please contact Jerry John- and Germany, 1680–1920,” “The Image of son at the museum [email protected] will take place March 5–8. “Image Is Ev- Perfection: Ceramic Figures as a Reflection erything! Ceramics and the People Who of 18th- and 19th-Century Society,” and Indiana Owned Them” is the title of the ceramics “‘Bought of Nobody for Almost Nothing’: Indianapolis, March 21-22. Martin J. Donnelly Auction at the Clarion Hotel. forum on April 24-25. Both events will be Anne Allen Ives and China Collecting in held at the Winterthur Museum, Wilm- Nineteenth-Century New England.” Indianapolis, October 24-25. Martin J. ington, Delaware. For more information on the forums, Donnelly Auction at the Clarion Hotel. The furniture forum is a collabora- please call 800.448.3888 or visit www. tion with the Center for American Art Maryland winterthur.org. Damascus, March 15. PATINA Spring at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and celebrates great collections of furniture created in William Penn’s “Green Coun- Advertise in Shavings try Towne.” Scholarships for graduate ADVERTISING: Contact Editor Patty MacLeish, 401-846-7542; E-mail: students and young professionals are [email protected] (Subject Line: Shavings Ad); or mail to 31 Walnut St., available for the furniture forum through Newport, RI 02840. the Foundation for Appraisal Education Display Ads in honor of the late WendellEAIA ShavingsD. Garrett Full Page (9.875"h x 7.5"w): $175 and by the Center forWinter American 2014 Art at Half Page (4.75"h x 7.5"w: $110 Quarter Page (two sizes: 2.375"h x 7.5"w or 3.625"h x 5"w): $60 the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Business Card (2"h x 3.5"w): $35 This year’s ceramics conference con- 20% discount on three or more display ads for members. Ads do not need to run consecu- siders how past owners interacted with tively to receive discount. Display ads are published in full color in the electronic version of Shavings. Advertisers may also add links from the ad to Web pages or e-mail addresses. Classified Ads Classified Ads New Jersey Cutlery histori- 25 words or less—$4.00; 15¢ per word thereafter. Box around the ad—35¢ (A word is any- cal book. Primarily knives, some thing with a space on both sides of it.) Please make checks payable to EAIA. (Non-Members tools. Search eBay for details. Send $25 add 20% per ad for either display or classified.) money order to Philip Pankiewicz, P.O. 2014 DEADLINES:March 1 (March/Spring issue); July 2 (August/Summer issue); Box 89, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568. October 1 (November/Fall issue).

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Shavings 231 Page 11 Winter 2014 Tool Sale & Auction at the Volunteer Fire Trades and Crafts. Join food historian Car- South.” Details at www.history.org/his- Association Activity Center, 10211 Lewis olina Capehart as she digs into a soldier’s tory/institute/institute_about.cfm. diet during the Revolutionary War. Learn Drive. Dealer tool sale in the morning; Williamsburg, March 16-18. Millinery about the typical daily rations, what sol- auction at 2 p.m. Call Andre Barbeau 301- Through Time Forum, Colonial Williams- 524-3357 to have your items picked up. diers ate, how it was cooked and how it has changed over time. Admission $7 for non- burg. See page 10 for details. Aldie, May 3. EAIA Regional Meeting at members; $3 for members. Pre-registration Williamsburg, April 12. M-WTCA the Aldie Mill. Details on page 6. recommended; call 973-377-2982 x14. Area S Meeting at Colonial Williamsburg. Massachusetts New York Panelists will discuss the new James An- Sturbridge, March 8-9. Crafts at Close East Nassau, July 17–20. EAIA’s East- derson’s Blacksmith Shop and Public Ar- Range at Old Sturbridge Village. See page 9 field Historic Trades Sampler, at Eastfield moury. See page 9 for details. for details. Sturbridge, March 24. Cheesmakig at Old Village. Details on page 6. McLean, May 13. PATINA meeting. Sturbridge Village. See page 9 for details. Avoca, July 24-26. Martin J. Donnelly American Legion Hall, 1355 Balls Hill Open House Auction & Tool Meeting. Rd.. Dealer tool sale from 10:30-11:30 New Hampshire a.m.; guest speaker at 12:30 p.m. Nashua, April 25-26. Martin J. Donnelly Pennsylvania Auction at the Holiday Inn Nashua. Camp Hill, March 28-29. Brown’s 44th Canada Nashua, September 19-20. Martin J. International Antique Tool Sale and Auc- Calgary Donnelly Auction, Holiday Inn Nashua. tion at the Radisson Hotel. Information at Alberta, June 21-22. The Association www.finetoolj.com. for Living History, Farm and Agricultur- New Jersey Pittsburgh, May 28-31. EAIA Annual al Museums (ALHFAM) Annual Meeting Madison, February 25. Museum of Early Meeting. Read more on page 4. at Heritage Park Historical Village. Trades and Crafts opens its new exhibit, Ontario “The American Revolution in New Jersey: Adamstown, June 28. M-WTCA Area P Quebec City, May 13-16 2015. EAIA Where the Battlefront Meets the Home- Meet at Black Angus Antiques Mall be- Annual Meeting. ginning at daybreak. Don Stark, Starkcd@ front,” Information at www.metc.org. England aol.com, 717-367-5207, M-WTCA, EAIA, High Bridge, April 6. Crafts regular Whitwick. March 29. David Stanley Auc- CRAFTS, PATINA—All invited. meeting, Meeting starts at 1 p.m. For infor- tion at the Heritage Leisure Centre. More mation e-mail John Czekaj at jrczekaj01@ Adamstown, August 24. M-WTCA Area details at www.davidstanley.com. gmail.com or check the Tool Shed or Crafts P Meet at Black Angus Antiques Mall be- Shropshire, April 4–6. TATHS 2014 An- website at craftsofnj.org. ginning at daybreak. Don Stark, Starkcd@ nual Conference will be held at the Iron- bridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire. High Bridge, April 12, 2014. Spring aol.com, 717-367-5207, M-WTCA, EAIA, Auction. Meeting starts at 1 p.m. For CRAFTS, PATINA—All invited. Italy information e-mail John Czekaj at jrcze- Virginia Pisa, June 14-17. International Plumb [email protected] or check the Tool Shed Bob Collectors Meeting. For more infor- or Crafts website at craftsofnj.org. Williamsburg, February 14-18. The 66th mation visit www.plumbbob.de or e-mail Colonial Williamsburg Antiques Forum— [email protected]. Madison, Saturday, April 27, 2 p.m. “Cook “New Findings in the Arts of the Coastal Like a Soldier,” at the Museum of Early

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The cabinetmakers shop at Old Economy, one of the sites EAIA members will visit during the 2014 annual meeting.