18th Century Material Culture

Hayforks, Rakes, & Hooks

Hayforks

The Widow Costards Cow & Goods Distrained for Texas are Relieved by the Generosity of Johnny Pearmain.
by Robert Sayer & J. Benett 1782
(Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd)

Hayforkfork from a Farm in Hancock, New Hampshire

1780
(New Hampshire Historical Society)

Agriculture.
The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert 1763
(Private Collection)

Rakes

Agriculture.
The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert 1763
(Private Collection)

Old Nanny Selling the things to the Farmer

by Tim Bobbin or Thomas Sanders June 1773
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Hay Rake
Mid to Late 18th Century
(Old Sturbridge Village)

Hay Rake
c. 1780 - 1830
(Winterthur)

Why a GARDENER is the most extraordinaryMan in the World

1773
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Why a GARDENER is the most extraordinaryMan in the World

1773
(Lewis Walpole Library)

HAY MAKING
by Robert Sayer 1786
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Lady Raking with Man Watching

by J. Dillon Late 18th Century

Bill / Brush Hooks

(Fascine Knives)

Bill / Brush Hook / Fascine Knife

18th Century
(Morristown National Historic Park)

British Fascine Knife / Bill / Brush Hook marked with a Government Broad Arrow
18th Century

Bill Hook. Recovered from the Wreck of the Boscawen, which sank in Lake Champlain in the late 1760's
From: Grant, David Mitchell; "Tools from the French and Indian War Sloop Boscawen" Texas A and M University. 1996.

Reaping Hooks
&

Scythes

Summer
by Richard Houston after Samuel Wale c. 1762

Pennsylvanian Iron and Wood Sickles or Reaping Hooks marked S Christ and D Christ
c. 1780
(Christies Auction House)

24 Sickle / Reaping Hook

18th Century
(Jim Bode Antique Tools)

Agriculture.
The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert 1763
(Private Collection)

The Merits and Defects of the Dead by their Ingenious Secretary

by William Austin 1773
(The British Museum)

Whetstones

10 Carrier for Wet Stones taken into the Fields to Sharpen Tools
18th Century
(Jim Bode Antique Tools)

Whetstones
18th Century
(Private Collection)

Honing & Whetstones

18th Century
(Nottingham University Museum)

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