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*Sketchbook '56 - Vol. 3* The Highlanders and Provincial Rangers By Ted Spring PRICE: $10.00 This large 8-1/2 x 11" softbound Sketchbook is filled with the art and research of Mr. Ted Spring. Re-enactors who portray the French and Indian War era, and the Revolutionary War era, will enjoy his work. This book describes the clothing, arms, accessories, and lives of the Highlanders, Rangers, and other mercenaries. Plans and sketches describe bags, horns, clothing, tools, firearms and accoutrements of this early era, when America was a British Colony. This is the third of six volumes, describing the various participants in the Seven Years War, 1756 - 1763. You can replicate many of the items shown, using the ideas, sketches, dimensions, and plans shown in this book. These ideas may inspire the hobby woodworker, amateur blacksmith, leather craftsman, or tailor. 72 pages.	*Sketchbook '56 - Vol. 6* Indian Allies By Ted Spring PRICE: $10.00 Sketches and text depict the several enemy and allied Indian tribes, with their warpaint, weapons, tools, trade goods, firearms, war clubs, seasonal activities, and shelters. You can replicate many of the items shown, using the ideas, sketches, dimensions, and plans shown in this book. These ideas may inspire the hobby woodworker, amateur blacksmith, leather craftsman, or tailor. Softbound volume of 72 pages, in 8-1/2 x 11” format, with color cover. Ordering Info	*Sketchbook '56 - Vol. 1* Rogers' Rangers By Ted Spring PRICE: $10.00 Re-enactors who study the French and Indian War era, and Revolutionary War era, will enjoy this sketchbook describing the duties, tools, and lives of Robert Rogers' Rangers. You can replicate many of the items shown, using the ideas, sketches, dimensions, and plans shown in this book. These ideas may inspire the hobby woodworker, amateur blacksmith, leather craftsman, or tailor. Plans and sketches describe bags, horns, clothing, tools, firearms and accoutrements of this early era, when America was a British Colony. This is the first of six volumes, describing the various participants in the Seven Years War, 1756 - 1763.	*Sketchbook '56 - Vol. 5* The Women of the French War Era By Ted Spring PRICE: $10.00 Women’s wear, underwear, aprons, and accessories of daily life, hats, hairstyles, and brief glimpses into the lives of women from the many social classes are included. Your ladies will enjoy re-enactments with the gear in this book. Softbound, 8-1/2 x 11” volume of 80 pages, with color cover. Ordering Info
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	*Sketchbook '76* By Robert Klinger & Richard Wilder PRICE: $8.00 Soft bound collection of patterns and sketches of the wearing apparel and other accessories from the Revolutionary War era. Pattern instructions are given for leggings, trousers, shirts, coats, frocks, glasses, and accoutrements from the 1776 period.		*Distaff Sketchbook* By Robert Kinger PRICE: $8.00 The ladies companion book to Sketchbook ‘76, with many differing styles and social positions represented. Ladies garment sketches and patterns are a bit more complex than the male counterparts, and this is a bit larger volume the Sketchbook ‘76. Appropriate materials and techniques for the construction of each type of garment are listed in detail.


*If These Stones Could Talk* Relics of New England's Intriguing Past, by Michael O'Hearn PRICE: $13.95 We can travel the world to see exotic wonders, but marvels can exist close by, too. That's the lesson New England teaches us every day that we set foot out the door and poke around a little. There's no reason to think of this region as ordinary just because it's where we live or work or visit. In truth, there are countless fascinating stories just waiting to be unearthed by anyone who cares to look for them. There are long-abandoned cellar holes, islands that have disappeared, old battlefields, the physical remnants of geological cataclysms, fascinating works of civil engineering both old and new, and historical quirks and legends. This book is, more than anything else, a starter kit. It's purpose is to intrigue you with some of the stories it contains, intrigue you enough to want to go out and explore the places being discussed -- or better yet, to look for other places that aren't listed here that possess their own peculiar stories, 164 pages.		Ordering Info

Ordering Info	*A Guide to New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail* for Families & History Buffs By Mark DiIonno PRICE: $19.00 This is a book New Jersey has long needed. It opens our eyes to the rich Revolutionary War legacy that surrounds us. Hit the road with journalist Mark DiIonno as he takes you on a tour of New Jersey's extraordinary Revolutionary War history. Listing more than 350 historic sites throughout the state, DiIonno has compiled the most complete guide ever to the Revolutionary War in the Garden State. New Jersey's role in the Revolutionary War is widely overlooked. Every school kid learns about the Boston Tea Party but not the Greenwich tea burning; and about the miserable winter at Valley Forge but not Jockey Hollow. Schools fund class trips to Philadelphia's Independence Hall but not Princeton's Nassau Hall. To find history in New Jersey, all you need is DiIonno's book as your guide. His easy-to-read volume helps readers explore the cities and the countryside from Bergen to Cape May County to find out exactly what happened there during the Revolutionary War. 226 pp., 43 photographs.

*The Long Retreat* The Calamitous Defense of New Jersey, 1776 By Arthur S. Lefkowitz PRICE: $29.95 A comprehensive history of the critical campaign of the American retreat to the Delaware River and of the British pursuit. On the morning of November 20, 1776, General Charles Cornwallis overran patriot positions at Fort Lee, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. The attack threw George Washington's army into turmoil. Thus began an American retreat across the state, which ended only after the battered rebels crossed the Delaware River at Trenton on December 7. It was a three-week campaign that marked the most dramatic and desperate period of the War for Independence. In The Long Retreat, Arthur Lefkowitz has written the first book-length study of this critical campaign. He adds compelling new detail to the narrative, and offers the most comprehensive account in the literature of the American retreat to the Delaware and of the British pursuit. What emerges is a history that clears away years of historical misconceptions about the movements of the armies, the intentions of their leaders, and the choices available to rebel commanders and their British counterparts. Lefkowitz presents a patriot military pounded into desperate straights by the force of the Crown. But in the end, these forces proved to be more resilient and wily than most previous scholarship has allowed. 190 informative pages..		Ordering Info

Ordering Info	*The Day is Ours!* An Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton, November 1776-January 1777 By William M. Dwyer PRICE: $20.00 A dramatic account of two battles that turned the tide of the American Revolution. In this distinguished, highly readable, and richly detailed narrative history, William M. Dwyer reveals as vivid a picture as we are likely to see of a critical period in the American Revolution. He lets the participants - from American, British, and Hessian soldiers to myriad fearful and ambivalent citizens - tell the story in their own words. "Telling this story from the perspective, and often in the words, of men in the ranks, Dwyer has written a dramatic account of this turning point in the American Revolution."-James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom. 430 pages with maps.

*FLINTLOCK FOWLERS* The First Guns Made in America American Fowling Pieces from 1700-1820 By Tom Grinslade PRICE: $75.00--Hardcover; $38.00--Softcover A PICTORIAL STUDY of 18th century, American fowling pieces. Over 160 smoothbore long guns are examined. Multiple photos of each gun, including close-ups of featured details. Fifteen pages of color close-ups—over fifty color photos! The most complete compilation of fowlers ever in one book. Essential resource for collectors, builders and flintlock enthusiasts! Amazingly overlooked, yet highly important, flintlock fowlers in Colonial America armed our forefathers with the first truly "made-in-America" guns.
Doing double duty as hunting guns and firearms for defense, they put food on the table and defended against Indians and enemy soldiers.		Ordering Info The common farmer in largely agricultural eighteenth century America often relied on his American-built fowler, about which very little has been written. Color Hardcover, with 248 pages (8-1/2"x11")

	*Tidings from the 18th Century* By: Beth Gilgun PRICE: $30.00 (Softcover) The author animates the mid to late 1700s with her entertaining and informative "letters" to a friend on the frontier. As an accomplished seamstress and goodwife, Gilgun explains th clothing for men, women and children of the 18th century. Included are clear, concise instructions for choosing the fabric and cutting and sewing the garments. She also covers topics such as daily life, housekeeping, sewing skills and news of the latest goods available in the East Coast markets. A GREAT BOOK for reenactors from 1750 to 1840! 285 pages, 8-1/2" X 11". Ordering Info

Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution By George C. Neumann & Frank J. Kravic PRICE: $28.00 (Softcover) This book is a showcase of more than 2,300 artifacts made, worn, and used by those who fought in the War for Independence. The text is an alphabetical going from A to Z with the Artifacts. Some of the featured items include: clothing and uniforms, games, letters, diaries, belts, buttons, axes, knives, pikes, firearms, cannon, ammunition, beds and bedding, tentage, medical equipment, kegs, canteens, eating ware, personal items of every kind and much more. 286 pages. 8-1/2" X 11". A GREAT RESOURCE for reenactors, living history participants, collectors, buckskinners and anyone interested in 18th century lifestyles. Features more than 2300 photographs and descriptions of artifacts from the mid to late 1700s. The encyclopedic format lets you focus in on the material culture of both combatants and civilians during the Revolutionary War period.
*Swords & Blades of the American Revolution* By George C. Neumann PRICE: $31.00 (Softcover) OVER 700 HISTORIC bladed weapons are illustrated and described as Neumann traces the evolution and history of the edged weapons used by both sides in America's war for independence. For those who are interested in historic bladed weapons, this companion to Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia includes swords, halberds, bayonets, knives, axes and related tools of the trade. 280 pages, 9" X 12"
*Battle Weapons of the American Revolution* By George C. Neumann PRICE: $43.00 (Softcover) THE MOST EXTENSIVE photographic collection of Revolutionary War weapons ever in one volume. More than 1600 photos of over 500 muskets, rifles, pistols, swords, bayonets, knives and other arms used by both sides in America's War for Independence. Featuring detailed views of Colonial, English and French weapons from private collections, most of which have NEVER BEEN IN PRINT. 400 pages, 8-1/2" X 11"
*Antique Country Furnishings: Northeastern America, 1650-1800s* By George C. Neumann PRICE: $20.00 (Softcover) TREMENDOUS RESOURCE covering early American artifacts from renowned author George C. Neumann.Trunks, beds, chairs, desks and desk boxes. Lanterns, lamps, candlestands, iron cookware, and fire irons. Mirrors, stools, wooden treenware, ceramic eating ware. Writing implements, games, pipes, shaving accessories and much more. Includes updated price list for collectors. 354 pages, 8-1/2" X 11", ISBN 0-517-66183-7.
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	*Fitting & Proper* By Sharon Ann Burnston PRICE: $32.00 (Softcover) One of the first books to focus exclusively on an entirely American collection of 18th century clothing. Fitting and Proper examines the clothing of ordinary 18th century Americans. Over 40 original garments from the collection of the Chester County [Pennsylvania] Historical Society are described and featured in top-quality photographs. In addition, 38 of these garments are rendered in graphed patterns by 18th century costume authority Sharon Ann Burnston. 122 pages, 9" X 12".

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*Recreating the 18th Century Powder Horn* The secrets of making, decorating, and aging powder horns By Scott & Cathy Sibley PRICE: $20.00 (Softcover) Renowned powder horn makers and scrimshaw artisans Scott and Cathy Sibley demonstrate every detail and secret of recreating an 18th century powder horn. New and experienced horn makers will enjoy this how-to book. Heavily illustrated with step-by-step, close-up, full color photographs and illustrations, these simple steps to take you from start to finish. Also included is a photographic collection of original 18th and 19th century powder horns from the collection of Scott Sibley, and several beautiful antique powder horns, previously unpublished, from the famous collection of Jim Dresslar, author of The Engraved Powder Horn. 92 pages, 11" x 8-1/2", ISBN 0-9765797-0-7	Ordering Info
An ideal instruction book for the novice, Scott Sibley demonstrates the horn making process in step-by-step close-up full color photographs. Learn how to inexpensively setup an ideal workspace, and how to select the few common tools needed for this enjoyable craft of creating American folk art.

*Recreating the 18th Century Hunting Pouch* The secrets of making aged leather possibles bags, full color, detail photos of 20 antique bags By by T.C. Albert PRICE: $26.00 (Softcover) Leather worker and artist T.C. Albert demonstrates every detail and secret of recreating an 18th century hunting pouch. Both new and experienced leather workers will enjoy this full color illustrated how-to book. Illustrated with over 200 step-by-step, close-up, full color photographs and illustrations, Mr. Albert explains the process of creating a hunting pouch in simple steps, from start to finish. Large clear full color photos show several views and close-up details of twenty (20) original antique 18th and 19th century hunting pouches, and their related accouterments. Previously unpublished, these bags have never been shown, except in their private collection.. 128 pages, 11" x 8-1/2", ISBN 978-0-9765797-1-7	Ordering Info
Learn to make your own natural leather dye, from common kitchen ingredients, and how to create a distressed antique patina finish on leather, using only the common household ingredients you may have. Twenty (20) original antique 18th and 19th century pouches are displayed in large full color photographs. Dimensions, regional styles, and approximate dates are provided. Original accouterments such as powder horns, patch knives, powder measures are also photographed with each bag.

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