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Description: | The Port of London Authority employed coopers to repair damaged casks of imported wines and spirits. The coopers also helped when the cargoes were tested for quality by knocking out the bung from the barrel, and replacing it once a sample had been extracted.
Coopers used a range of specialist tools. A cooper working in the Crescent Wine Vaults at London Dock used this box chiv plane to smooth the surface near the top of the cask staves. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | work | Temporal: | 1875-1930 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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