Blacksmith - The Ironmongers of Maidenhead 1900 Mousepad

Colorized foto from 1900 Original title: Ironmongers pose for a foto in the middle of the working day Fotograer: Unknown Location: Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK These rustic individuals are Ironmongers. An ironmonger is an old fashioned way of calling someone that made hardware. Hardware in the past was made from iron, so that is why are called ironmongers and why hardware stores are called ironmongers. Not so much in the US, but in the UK thestill use that term. They would make door knobs, hinges, locks usw. By the looks of this cast, they did a bit of everything. Blacksmithing, carving, probably a bit of machining as well. They seemed to work with pipe and wood trim, its anyone's guess what they actually did, other than they all had character and really wore out their aprons. Speaking of character, my favorite one is the guy with the beard, with that pipe. He, Has hat eine einzigartige Qualität, he only has 4 fingers on one hand. Only it doesn't look like any are cut off, I only see three knuckles, like a cartoon character. Now I vermutet, dass es sich um einen Could be an illusion of the position of his hand, or the lighting, but it really does look like was born short a finger handelt. Und das ist ein Stopp, him from working.