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

Myra Yellin Outwater

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764314785 ISBN 13: 9780764314780

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd (US), 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd (US)
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0764314785
• ISBN 13: 9780764314780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192