1807 Copper Engraving Flax Brake Heckle Scutcher Farm Machinery Agriculture TCF1 YCG1 This 45+ year old Item

This 45+ year old Item is rated Near Mint

It is estimated that the equivalent of the entire world population is transported by the Otis Elevator Company every three to nine days

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1807 Copper Engraving Flax Brake Heckle Scutcher Farm Machinery Agriculture TCF1 YCG1 This 45+ year old Item"Apparatus for Dressing Flax" This is an original 1807 black and white copper engraving of a flax hand brake that is used to break and separate the boon or core from the flax (figs. 1 and 2), a flax foot brake (fig. 3), a beating or scrutching machine (fig. 4), a flax heckle used to straighten the fibers of flax (fig. 5), a flax rippling comb used to separate the bolls from the flax seed (fig. 6), a flax stock and scutcher (fig. 9), and other farm