Antique Iron Identification and Values

With his feet solidly planted on a greenish-blue slag mound, from which he liked to direct his sweating crews in their final preparations, Jake clamped his battered hat further over bushy eyebrows. Thumbs hooked under his belt to impatiently hitch up pants already jerked high, he shifted a bulging chaw of tobacco from one cheek to the other, quiet only when the temperature of the melting ore had reached his approved heat peak. Then he peered intently at the tall brick stack where the color of its rising smoke would indicate to him when to pour.

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Table of Contents:

Cover

Appreciation

CONTENTS

THE CONTINUING AGE OF IRON

CASTING (FOUNDING)

FARMING

BUYING - CLEANING - COPIES

FURNITURE

KITCHEN and PANTRY

TOYS

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