Woodworker's tool chest: blacksmith/ farrier tongs

Woodworker's tool chest: blacksmith/ farrier tongs

Blacksmithing

Handicraft

Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Woodworking tools

These tongs were contained in a tool chest belonging to woodworker Jesse Bryson Stalcup. These tongs were used by blacksmiths and farriers to hold and shape hot pieces of metal such as horseshoes. This is possibly a locally produced item. Stalcup was a skilled carpenter, millwright, and woodworker who worked in and around Waynesville and Macon County, North Carolina, as well as Hiawassee, Georgia, circa 1880s-1930. The chest contains a variety of woodworking tools typically used by craftsmen in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Stalcup, Jesse Bryson

Jesse Bryson Stalcup Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1880/1930;

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artifacts (object genre)

StillImage

13652

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2007-02-15

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Macon County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

2" x 19.5" x 1"(dimension)

Craft Revival