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Shipwright's Calking Seat, Containing a Mallet Head and 12 Steel Calking Tools
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A late 19th century ship builder's calking seat, containing a lignum vitae mallet head and 12 steel caulking irons.
A number of the irons have marks of Sheffield and Glasgow tool makers.
Caulking (also spelled calking) on wooden vessels uses fibers of cotton and oakum (hemp fibre soaked in pine tar). These fibers are driven into the wedge-shaped seam between planks, with a caulking mallet and a broad chisel-like tool called a caulking iron. The caulking is then covered over with a putty, in the case of hull seams, or else in deck seams with melted pine pitch, in a process referred to as paying, or "calefaction".
- Dimensions:Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 8.25 in (20.96 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1880-1900
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Minor fading.
- Seller Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1190226957772
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