Household elegancies : suggestions in household art and tasteful home decorations (1876)
Jones, C. S., Mrs, Williams, Henry T · New York : H. T. Williams · leaf 262
-glance before sawingit open; remembering the old (?) proverb, The harder the nnt, the finer thesaw, he divides it with his little hand-saw into two unequal parts; after dig-ging out the meat carefully, the empty shell is ready to be mounted, and usedas a flower pot or basket or bracket. Xo wood… … Fig. 9. Cocoanut Flower-Pot Bracket. 260 HOUSEHOLD ELEGANCIES. Brackets, Figs. 9 and 10, are of liaK-inch board, eighteen inches long; size ofboard, of coiuse, to be varied according to size of nut. By making a straight line through the board, and using a compass, our eldestboy succeeded in copying…
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