Manuscript Lumbering Account Book - Register. A company lumber register, with wood type and size. With index. 1890.
N.p. 1890. 1890. Hardcover. Narrow 8vo. (23.5cm x 10cm), 252p., 5p.index, handwritten entries (pencil & ink), bound in half dark brown sheep and brown cloth boards, marbled endpapers, inner linen hinges, very good, very rare (cgc) A lumber stock register. I have never had or seem any similar logging account manuscript books. - The index indicates lumber types and species: deals, red pine, spruce, tamarack, 1st and 2nd stumps, siding, good shorts, mill clulls, box siding, etc. An interesting record of types and sizes of wood common in the 1890's. Believed to be associated with the Ottawa Valley lumbering trade. - One entry mentions Perkins which we believe would be Perkins, P.Q., just north of Wakefield, still known for lumber. Item #25163
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