Antique Garden Tools and Accessories

by Myra Yellin Outwater

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764314785
• ISBN13: 9780764314780
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"