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O scale Tobacco Hogshead container kegs/barrels. 1/48th scale

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  • Ships from Kentucky! Shorter shipping distances are kinder to the planet

4 Each hogs head with 8 drum head tops. 8 detached drums heads are included.

Hogshead and drumheads are 1/48th / O scale

Items are unpainted and off white in color.

Hogheads sizes are illustrated with micrometer.

The micrometer, scale figure and painted barrels are not included.

Mule hitched to hogshead is not included. Hogshead hitch for you creative souls! Mule is from 20 mule team and the hitch was scratch built from scrap lumber and Grandt Nut Bolt Washers. The fellow is from Cumberland Shop.

History:

A hogshead is a large barrel used primarily to store and/or transport tightly packed, or "prized," leaf tobacco. By the mid-1700s, tradition, convenience, and statutes to discourage smuggling ultimately required tobacco to be shipped in a hogshead rather than by bulk. Hogsheads were transported by water and land, and they often were rolled a mile or more by hand from the plantation to the wharf. So-called tobacco rollers would haul a hogshead to market with the aid of one or two horses.

Over time, loose-leaf tobacco warehouse auction sales replaced the traditional method of selling tobacco in a hogshead. Loose-leaf sales allowed buyers to examine the entire bulk of the tobacco they were bidding for, while those buying by the hogshead could only examine a small sample. Prizing leaf into hogsheads was a way to help protect it during shipping and to economize on shipping space. However, the prizing damaged the leaf, and a planter in the 1870s could get more money for tobacco that was wrapper quality (leaves that were used to wrap tobacco plugs).

The hogshead is no longer the standard means of tobacco shipping or marketing but is chiefly used by manufacturers for storage during the curing process. A uniform size for the hogshead was never successfully established in colonial times or afterward; consequently, its changing size has remained a source of frustration for researchers trying to determine tobacco statistics from colonial and nineteenth-century North Carolina.

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