Newhouse bear traps by alferd williams trapping books. The newhouse trap collectors handbook and price guide bush, donnie on. This is the type of poster that lined the walls of fur buyers shacks and local hardware stores when trapping was a profitable business. An original and early piece great for any collection.
However, the book states, it will hold almost any game smaller than a bear. Blue patterned cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Locate a newhouse trap with the words, property of the united states or us and you should add additional value. The history explained on this page is from the first newhouse trappers guide, printed in 1865. Sewell and the start of the newhouse trapp the start of the community newhouse trap j. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. We carry a huge inventory and your order will be shipped promptly. Find great deals on ebay for newhouse traps and vintage traps. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Based on old world torsion traps made of wood, plant fibers andor animal sinew and used in asia, africa and europe as long ago as 200 bc, metal leghold traps have been in use since 0 ad. Describes the various makes and tells how to use them, also chapters on care of pelts, etc. Trap collectors blue book new for 2020 antique newhouse traps. Up for auction is a vintage trapping book titled steel traps by a. Contains a brief overview of the history of the newhouse traps and their relationship with the oneida community in new york state. Newhouses book the following are notes from a book published close to the final years of the traditional trapperexplorer experience. Trap shows signs of old rust but nothing recent it has been in my house for 15 yrs. This auction is for an antique newhouse animal wolf trap with a chain and swivel.
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