Authentic way of trimming your toe nails

[KPavia]

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource...c17312/?co=cwp

Now we have a documented way of cutting our toenails.
Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to attach the picture to the thread so if anyone knows how to do it, feel free. Otherwise, just follow the link.

[Curt Schmidt]

Re: Authentic way of trimming your toe nails

Hallo!



Thanks for putting that up. We had that archived Once Upon a Time, but I think it must have disappeared during one of the crashes a while back.



Curt

[GreencoatCross]

Re: Authentic way of trimming your toe nails

Below are details from the wet-plate of the same image. Note the knit wool shirts with ribbed cuffs, collars, and short plackets. The detail of the Sibley tent behind the seated man suggests that the tent is entirely hand-sewn. The three standing men are all wearing knit wool shirts; the man at left appears to be wearing a thin cotton undershirt underneath his knit wool shirt; the middle man has some kind of badge pinned to the lower part of his shirt placket. Note the stack of rifles INSIDE the Sibley tent.

[Blair]

Re: Authentic way of trimming your toe nails

There is an easier way, and equally as authentic...

There is a trade catalogue in print titled. "A Catalogue Of Tools For Watch And Clock Makers" by John Wyke of Liverpool. Originally printed between 1759 to 1780.
Among the very large variety of tools depicted in the prints, is a selection of "box jointed" Plyers (English spelling). A number of these are described in the text as "Nail Nippers".

Another tool catalogue is, "Tools For The Trades And Crafts", an Eighteenth Century Pattern Book, by R. Timmins & Sons, Birmingham. Printed with various up dated prints from 1818 through to 1880.
This catalogue has an even large selection of "box jointed" Pliers with "Nail Nippers/Cutters". There are many prints from Wyke's Watch and Clock Makers catalogue used in Timmins' Pattern Book.
Just an idea on my part,