Spars and Rigging

Spars and RiggingRelying on his own experience in the U. S. Navy and consulting his contemporaries in the maritime profession, midshipman John Murphy published this book to provide an accurate portrait of a ship's rigging and spars (masts or yardarms supporting or extending a ship's sail). An important book in maritime history, the study describes every improvement made in seafaring equipment up to 1849. The thorough text is accompanied by more than 200 clear

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Designed for economy of material and labor and for efficiency and usefulness

and it remains a classic of American scientific literature

each of 30 different projects — all replicas of actual rare furniture — can be completed by ambitious beginners as well as skilled crafters for only a fraction of what vintage originals would cost

others (such as a sunburn ointment made from hog's lard and elder flowers) were based on long experience and produced excellent results

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Roebuck and Company advertised in 1932 products in a handsome catalog that also displayed a full-size replica of Mount Vernon

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