drinking - kegs & cocks

7/28/2019 Drinking - Kegs & Cocks

1/106

18th Century Material CultureCooperage

The Cooper, Kegs & Cocks


2/106

Coopers


3/106

A Dutch Cooper

by Willem Basse c. 1628 - 1648(The British Museum)


4/106

ENGELS - KVIPER (English Cooper) - Satire of the Threatening Peace with England

by Jan Bastiaansz, Middelburg 1652(The British Museum)


5/106

ENGELS - KVIPER (English Cooper) - Satire of the Threatening Peace with England

by Jan Bastiaansz, Middelburg 1652(The British Museum)


6/106

Token for Thomas Hogsflesh, Cooper

c. 1649 - 1672(The British Museum)


7/106

Token for John Barnes, Wine Cooper of London

c. 1664(The British Museum)


8/106

Token for Giles Stuchbery, Cooper of London



9/106

Token for Daniel Arnold, Wine Cooper of London



10/106

The Cries of London: Any work for John Cooper

after Louis Philippe Boitard, after Marcellus Laroon II c. 1688, Reworked and Published after c. 1750(The British Museum)


11/106

Cooper

by Anne Claude Philippe de Tubires, Comte de Caylus after Edme Bouchardon 1742(Metropolitan Museum of Art)


12/106

Trade Card

18th Century(Private Collection)


13/106

Coopers Dividers that Extend from 10 - 15

17th - 18th Century(Jim Bode Historic Tools)


14/106

Trade Card for John Adams, Cooper

London Late 18th Century(The British Museum)


15/106

Trade Card for Thomas Hubbard, Cooper

London Late 18th Century(The British Museum)


16/106

Trade Card for James Barnett, Cooper and Turner

London Late 18th Century(Lewis Walpole Library)


17/106

Barrels, Kegs, & Casks


18/106

Anatomy of an 18th Century Barrel or CaskFrom: Grant, David Mitchell; "Tools from the French and Indian War Sloop Boscawen" Texas A and M University. 1996


19/106

Capacity Nomenclature


20/106

Wood Cask with Iron Hoops

18th Century(Private Collection)


21/106

Wood Keg with Iron Hoops

18th Century(Guilford Courthouse National Military Park)


22/106

English Wood & Metal Barrel Recovered from the Wreck of the H.M.S. Invinsible Sunk in 1758

Lid Marked with a Broad Arrow and the Letters LC PO c. 1758(The Historic Dockyard - Chatham)


23/106




24/106




25/106




26/106




27/106


Lid Marked with a Broad Arrow and the Letters PC & G c. 1758(The Historic Dockyard - Chatham)


28/106


Lid Marked with a Broad Arrow and the Letters PC & G c. 1758(The Historic Dockyard - Chatham)


29/106

Detail from Die Bottgenkunst Von Hrn. Fougeroux Von Bandaroy(University of Waterloo Library)


30/106

Detail from Die Bottgenkunst Von Hrn. Fougeroux Von Bandaroy(University of Waterloo Library)


31/106

Cooperage from Encyclopedia Diderot and Dalembert1772
http://siftingthepast.com/2013/01/04/cooperage-from-encyclopedia-diderot-and-dalembert-1772/siftingthepast_cooperage1-from-encyclopedia_diderot-and-dalembert_1772/http://siftingthepast.com/2013/01/04/cooperage-from-encyclopedia-diderot-and-dalembert-1772/


32/106



33/106



34/106

The Cooperage at Colonial Williamsburg(The Colonial Williamsburg Cooperage - Colonial Williamsburg)


35/106

Using a Coopers Axe to Cut a Bevel(The Colonial Williamsburg Cooperage - Colonial Williamsburg)


36/106

Using a Coopers Axe to Cut a Bevel(The Colonial Williamsburg Cooperage - Colonial Williamsburg)


37/106

Finishing the Bevel with a Drawknife(The Colonial Williamsburg Cooperage - Colonial Williamsburg)


38/106

Finishing the Bevel with a Drawknife(The Colonial Williamsburg Cooperage - Colonial Williamsburg)


39/106

Small Shot Keg Remnants Recovered from the French Flagship, Machaultc. 1760

(From: Sullivan, Catherine Legacy of the Machault - A Collection of 18th Century Artifacts - Parks Canada)


40/106

Barrel Hoops


41/106


42/106

Driving a Rivet Through a Recreated Hoop Iron(The Colonial Williamsburg Cooperage - Colonial Williamsburg)


43/106

The Protruding Rivet Shank(The Colonial Williamsburg Cooperage - Colonial Williamsburg)


44/106


45/106

The Rivet Shank is Compressed(The Colonial Williamsburg Cooperage - Colonial Williamsburg)


46/106

The Rivet Shank is Flattened into a Rosehead(The Colonial Williamsburg Cooperage - Colonial Williamsburg)


47/106

The Finished Rivet(The Colonial Williamsburg Cooperage - Colonial Williamsburg)


48/106

Copper Hoop from a British Gunpowder KegBritish Broad Arrow Mark

(Fort Ticonderoga)


49/106

Barrel Hoop Remnants Recovered from the French Flagship, Machaultc. 1760



50/106

Copper Hoop from a British Gunpowder Keg Found at Fort MichilimackinacBritish Broad Arrow Mark c. 1761 - 1778

(Fort Michilimackinac - Mackinaw State Historic Parks)


51/106

Copper Hoop from a British Gunpowder Keg Found at Fort MichilimackinacBritish Broad Arrow Mark c. 1761 - 1778

(Fort Michilimackinac - Mackinaw State Historic Parks)


52/106

Reproduction Copper Hoop and Gunpowder Cask

(Marshall Scheetz - Jamestown Cooperage, LLC)


53/106

Kegs in Art


54/106


55/106


56/106

William Hogarth


57/106

The Drunkardby Thomas Rowlandson c. 1757 - Late 18th Century

(The British Museum)


58/106


59/106

"HOB Triumphs over St. Thomas. Plate 8"

by Robert Sayer after John Laguerre c. 1760(Lewis Walpole Library)


60/106

The JOVIAL FANKERKINS after a Painting of TENIERS

by John Bowles, made by Richard Brookshaw after David Teniers the Younger 1770(The British Museum)


61/106

SR BIBO BULKY

1773(Lewis Walpole Library)


62/106

"The SIPHONs or Tale of a Tub"

by Thomas Cornell 1783(British Museum)


63/106

BACCHENELS, or, the Friendly DROP (Lord North & Charles Fox Drinking Wine)

by John Boyne, Published by E. Hedges 1784(Lewis Walpole Library)


64/106

Brass Cocks(Spigots)


65/106

The Old Drinker

by Gabriel Metsu c. 1657


66/106

The Old Drinker

by Gabriel Metsu c. 1657


67/106

Advertisement for Brass Cocks (Spigots)Boston Evening-Post. Issue # 95, June 6, 1737, Page 2


68/106

The Standard Weight of Coins showing a Brass Cock18th Century


69/106

English Billhead for Ralph Taylor, Cock - FounderLocated at the Three Brass Cocks, High Holborn

1759(Museum of London)


70/106

English Trade Card18th Century



71/106

A Victualler or Publican Erected out of his own Implements without the Assistance of Natureby George Bickam the Younger c. 1730 - 1750



72/106

English Brass Cock with the Silhouette of a Cock (Rooster)17th Century


73/106

English Brass Cock with the Silhouette of a Cock (Rooster)17th Century


74/106

Scandinavian Brass Cocks with the Silhouettes of a Cock (Rooster)17th Century


75/106

Copper Alloy Spigot or Cock Recovered from Paternoster Square, LondonLate 17th - Early to Mid 18th Century

From: Taverns and Other Entertainments in the City of London? 17th and 18th Century Finds from Excavations at Paternoster Square

by Sadie Watson & Jacqueline Pearce with Anne Davis, Geo"Egan and Alan Pipe


76/106


77/106

Brass Keg Spigot or Cock Recovered from the Cellar Excavation of Vinter, Morris Pound, Colchester, Virginiac. 1750 - 1800

(Fairfax Count Resource Management & Protection Collection - James Lee Community Center, Falls Church, Virginia)


78/106


79/106


80/106

Brass Keg Spigot or Brass Cock with Key Recovered at Fort Niagarac. 1780

(Old Fort Niagara -Photo Courtesy Terry Scorchy0


81/106

18th Century Brass Keg Spigots or Brass Cocks with Locking KeysSimilar toThat Excavated at New Winsor Cantonment

(Private Collection)


82/106

Fragment of a Brass Spigot or Cock c.1760 - 1783Found in the British & Hessian hut encampment built by the Continental Army in 1776 on the Dyckman

Farm near Fort Washington in New York City. After the fall of the fort on November 16, 1776, His Majestysforces occupied the huts until the evacuation of New York in 1783. Artifact excavated by Reginald P. Bolton

& Co. in 1913.(New York Historical Society)


83/106

Brass CockRecovered from Fort Michilimackinac

c. 1760 - 1781(Fort Michilimackinac)


84/106

English Brass Cock Recovered from the Wreck of the H.M.S. Invinsible Sunk in 1758c. 1758

(The Historic Dockyard - Chatham)


85/106




86/106




87/106




88/106


89/106




90/106

English Brass Cock Key Recovered from the Wreck of the H.M.S. Invinsible Sunk in 1758c. 1758



91/106

Brass Keg Spigot or Brass CockRecovered o"a Loyalist Transport Ship Sunk o"Charleston in 1782

(St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum)


92/106

Copper Spigot Recovered from the French Flagship, Machaultc. 1760



93/106

Copper Spigot Recovered from the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck, Delawarec. 1772 - 1800

(From Underwater Archeological Investigation of the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck - Delaware Department of State)


94/106

x


95/106

Brass Cock Recovered from the Wreck of the General Carleton1785

(From The General Carleton Shipwreck, 1785 Archaeological Research Polish Maritime Museum)


96/106

Brass Cock18th - 19th Century


97/106

English Brass Cock18th Century

(Private Collection)


98/106


99/106

Recreated British Sutler during the American War for IndependenceBrass Cock to Dispense Rum


100/106

Trunk Barrels


101/106

American Hollow Tree Trunk Barrel from New England18th Century

(Skinner)


102/106

CapacityEquivalents


103/106

Capacity EquivalentsNot Fully to Scale

(All Information Courtesy Drinking Cup Blog)

Capacity Equivalents


104/106


FIRKIN: 41 Liters / 11 U.S. Gallons (Name take from the Old Dutch Forth or 1/4 a BritishBarrel

QUARTER CASK: 50 Liters / 13 U.S. Gallons

RUNDLET: 70 Liters / 18 U.S. Gallons

TIERCE: 160 Liters / 42 U.S. Gallons

BRITISH BARREL: 160 Liters 43 U.S. Gallons

AMERICAN STANDARD BARREL (ASB): 200 Liters / 54 U.S. Gallons

HOGSHEAD: 250 - 300 Liters / 66 - 79 U.S, Gallons

BARRIQUE: (Cognac) 300 Liters / 79 U.S. Gallons & Wine 225 Liters / 59 U.S. Gallons

PUNCHEON or TERTIAN: 450 Liters / 120 U.S. Gallons



105/106


BUTT: 500 Liters / 132 U.S. Gallons

PIPE: 650 Liters / 172 U.S. Gallons

DRUM: 650 Liters / 172 U.S. Gallons

GORDA: 700 Liters / 185 U.S. Gallons

TUN: 982 Liters / 250 U.S. Gallons

Acknowledgements


106/106

Acknowledgements

The material contained within these slideshows is presented for educational purposes only. The18th Century Material Culture Resource Center does not personally own any of the itemsdepicted herein and is indebted to the countless museums, libraries, and private collectors whowillingly share their collections with the public through the internet. Every attempt has beenmade to credit these organizations and individuals for their contributions as best as possible.

If there is a question you have regarding a particular item featured within a presentation, pleasecontact the 18th Century Material Culture Resource Center and we will try to answer yourinquiry as best as possible. If for any reason you feel there is any item that should not bepresented here, or if there is an error in any listing, or if you know the source for any item whose

credit is unknown, please inform us and we will make sure your concern is addressed as soon aspossible.

Thank you!

drinking - kegs & cocks

Documents