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Title: Antique wax press?
Post by: landrum on September 22, 2013, 11:39:56 am
Hello.  MyI name is Steve.  
my grandfather who died in 1972 was a well known beekeeper in south Georgia.  He and his 5 brothers were all beekeepers who moved to Homerville Ga from the north florida area in the early 1900's.
I have a wooden instrument of some kind that belonged to him in the early days.  I don't know why he saved it but it is interesting.
I believe it might be a wax press or something of the sort.
it is wooden and has about a 18 inch handle on it.
as soon as I get a pic of it I will add it to the post.
Thanks.
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Title: Re: Antique wax press?
Post by: tefer2 on September 22, 2013, 12:05:45 pm
Welcome Steve, we'll be waiting for the pics.
Title: Re: Antique wax press?
Post by: Joe D on September 23, 2013, 09:28:32 pm
Welcome to the forum, Steve.




Joe
Title: Re: Antique wax press?
Post by: BeeMaster2 on September 23, 2013, 10:43:09 pm
Welcome to the forum Steve. Looking forward to seeing the pictures.
Jim
Title: Re: Antique wax press?
Post by: tefer2 on September 24, 2013, 08:53:41 am
Steve, you'll have to send your photo's to one of the moderators on here to get them posted. You don't have enough posts to allow adding them.
Title: Re: Antique wax press?
Post by: buzzbee on September 28, 2013, 09:26:43 am
Send them to:
photos@beemaster.com
and we will gladly post them. Just be sure to mention the thread to atatch the pics to! :)
Title: Re: Antique wax press?
Post by: buzzbee on September 30, 2013, 09:12:33 pm
Photos added!!
Title: Re: Antique wax press?
Post by: rwlaw on October 06, 2013, 10:44:48 am
The only wax presses that I ever seen looked like a early hamdcrank pasta machine. However do I see that it's hinged? Might be some sort of preformer.
  Micheal Bush is really into older bk'ing material might shoot him a e mail