Gentleman of Fortune Posted March 28, 2005 Posted March 28, 2005 Does anyone know when iron banding on barrels started? Or more specifically, are barrels made by the ships cooper iron bound or wooden bound for 1690-1720? Anyone? GoF Come aboard my pirate re-enacting site http://www.gentlemenoffortune.com/ Where you will find lots of information on building your authentic Pirate Impression!
corsair2k3 Posted March 29, 2005 Posted March 29, 2005 The ones I have seen are wood. Regards, Corsair www.whydah.com
Gentleman of Fortune Posted March 29, 2005 Author Posted March 29, 2005 As in "the ones I have seen from the Wydah wreckage" or in pictoral refrences? They would be a neat thing to have in the background of a smuggler/pirate trader event, but i am not sure anyone makes them wood bound anymore. GoF Come aboard my pirate re-enacting site http://www.gentlemenoffortune.com/ Where you will find lots of information on building your authentic Pirate Impression!
blackjohn Posted March 31, 2005 Posted March 31, 2005 I've seen wood bound barrels, because I too thought they would be cool for events. However... wheverever it was, I didn't commit it to memory, figuring I'd never actually spend money on them. Have you tried searching the net for wooden hooped barrels??? My Home on the Web The Pirate Brethren Gallery Dreams are the glue that holds reality together.
MadMike Posted March 31, 2005 Posted March 31, 2005 Well, we know they at least had iron hooped buckets- "That William Kidd, on the 30th of October, on the high sea, on the coast of Malabar, did assault one William Moore, onboard a ship called the Adventure, whereof William Kidd was captain, struck him with a wooden bucket, hooped with iron, on the side of the head near the right ear, and that of this bruise he died the next day, and so that he has murdered the same person" (Clifford, p. 208, "Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd"). Yours, &c. Mike Try these for starters- "A General History of the Pyrates" edited by Manuel Schonhorn, "Captured by Pirates" by John Richard Stephens, and "The Buccaneers of America" by Alexander Exquemelin.
Patrick Hand Posted April 1, 2005 Posted April 1, 2005 There is a page in "A diray of an American Boy" ( it might be an Early American boy... I don't have the book with me right now ) by Eric Slone that shows how the barrel hoops were made....
dasNdanger Posted April 1, 2005 Posted April 1, 2005 Here's an interesting discussion about this topic - a little earlier time period, but it might shed some light on things... http://www.wolfeargent.com/cgi-bin/ultimat...ic&f=3&t=000050 das http://www.ajmeerwald.org/
Gentleman of Fortune Posted April 2, 2005 Author Posted April 2, 2005 Thanks Das! That was a helpful link.... if you have not already, I would love to invite you to join the discussion at the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/piratebrethren/ yahoo group site. A lot of interesting discusiion goes on their too! GoF Come aboard my pirate re-enacting site http://www.gentlemenoffortune.com/ Where you will find lots of information on building your authentic Pirate Impression!
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