{"id":21020,"date":"2022-04-20T19:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T23:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21020"},"modified":"2022-04-20T19:08:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T23:08:29","slug":"episode-568-making-munitions-filings-into-fin-jewelry-edward-freeman-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21020","title":{"rendered":"episode 568 Making munitions filings into fin jewelry….Edward Freeman 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"
episode 568     Making munitions filings into fin jewelry….Edward Freeman  1914<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
april 20, 2022<\/div>\n

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This work of art is ignored lost in the back pantry of the old Freeman farm house.<\/div>\n
\u2026along with balls of string, buttons, lane wicks, milk caps, news clipping of poems of<\/div>\n
Edna Jacques\u2026and a single fine piece jewelry.<\/div>\n

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episode 568     Making munitions filings into fin jewelry….Edward Freeman  1914<\/div>\n

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FINE JEWELRY FROM ARTILLERY SHELLS BRASS FILINGS<\/div>\n

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IN an earlier episode I described how the Freeman family were burned out<\/div>\n
of their log home in the long gone village of Krugerdorf in Northern Ontario.<\/div>\n
They had barely enough money to buy the 25 acre farm we own today.   The land<\/div>\n
remains terrible\u2026.stones and swamps.  Beautiful to look at but impossible to farm.<\/div>\n
when they arrived in 1914.<\/div>\n

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So Edward Freeman got a job as a munitions maker in Toronto.  Seems to have been<\/div>\n
operating a metal carving lathe.  Perhaps the brass nose cones on artillery shells<\/div>\n
or the shell casings.<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhat is this, mom?\u201d,  I asked when we were gutting the old farm house\u2026removing the old<\/div>\n
pantry and interior walls making one huge room where once there were four tiny rooms.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s a brooch that your grandfather made for me in 1914.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWas he a jeweller?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cFar from it.  he was doing whatever he could to pay for the farm.\u201d\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cMaking?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cMaking artillery shells in Toronto during the week and coming<\/div>\n
here to the farm on Saturday and Sunday.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u2018Do you mean granddad made this brooch from bomb filings?\u201d<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
april 2022<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

episode 568     Making munitions filings into fin jewelry….Edward Freeman  1914 alan skeoch april 20, 2022 This work of art is ignored lost in the back pantry of the old Freeman farm house. \u2026along with balls of string, buttons, lane wicks, milk caps, news clipping of poems of Edna Jacques\u2026and a single fine piece […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}