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The article introduces a catalogue featuring a set of timber house builder's tools preserved by the National Museum of Lithuania (NML). These are the tools and equipment used by sawyers, carpenters and roofers in the 19th c. and through the first half of the 20th c. and is also a personal set of the capenter K. Gabrėnas. The museum has amassed tools of different construction and in variety of shapes, some of them are rather ornate, embellished with ornamental patterns or turned detail, some carry incised dates or signs. The collection totals to 333 tools from different Lithuanian ethnic areas, they have been acquired during expeditions or from private individuals. |
