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Bucket Town: Woodenware and Wooden Toys of Hingham, Massachusetts 1635-1945
Not All Is Changed: A Life History of Hingham
When I Think Of Hingham
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Bucket Town: Woodenware and Wooden Toys of Hingham, Massachusetts 1635-1945
~ By Derin T. Bray
Photography by Gavin Ashworth
Hardcover 208 pages

Imagine unlocking a forgotten storage shed on your family farm, only to discover the only pre-industrial toy shop still standing in America? Before the Industrial Revolution, Hingham was known nationwide as Bucket Town for its quality wooden buckets, boxes, household tools and even Revolutionary War canteens. Over 400 coopers in Hingham created these items. The first community of professional toymakers in America, they crafted wooden toys for generations of children – wooden furniture in miniature, miniature buckets, and boxes. The discovery began a hunt for similar artifacts, culminating in this meticulously researched book. It’s a book any collector of antique furniture, miniatures, and wooden toys should have.

Not All Is Changed: A Life History of Hingham
~ By Lorena Laing Hart and Francis Russell Hart
Hardcover 509 pages
NOTE: Not Available for Separate Purchase

A “biography” of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts, the emphasis is on the 19th and 20th century history, telling how the town’s “personality” developed through different stages, through local and national crises. Read how Hingham evolved, from a bustling entrepreneurial town before the Civil War, through the immigrants who made their own mark, to the town’s proud WWII shipbuilding history and through the social changes of the 1970’s.

When I Think Of Hingham
~ By Michael J. Shilhan
Hardcover 147 pages
NOTE: Not Available for Separate Purchase
This book’s first edition in 1976 sold out quickly. See the story of Hingham through photographs, most of which are from the 1890’s to 1910. Every photo has a story, told through anecdotes collected by the author. It is a social chronicle, an essential addition to any record of this small seaside town south of Boston.

$80.00 for all Three




Woodenware and Wooden Toys of Hingham, Massachusetts 1635-1945
~ By Derin T. Bray
Photography by Gavin Ashworth
Hardcover 208 pages

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Imagine unlocking a forgotten storage shed on your family farm, only to discover the only pre-industrial toy shop still standing in America? Before the Industrial Revolution, Hingham was known nationwide as Bucket Town for its quality wooden buckets, boxes, household tools and even Revolutionary War canteens. Over 400 coopers in Hingham created these items. The first community of professional toymakers in America, they crafted wooden toys for generations of children – wooden furniture in miniature, miniature buckets, and boxes. The discovery began a hunt for similar artifacts, culminating in this meticulously researched book. It’s a book any collector of antique furniture, miniatures, and wooden toys should have.

$55.00




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