French & Indian War Accessories

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16 inch clay pipe

4 inch clay pipe

7 inch clay pipe

Beaver for necklace

Belt buckles

Buttons 0.5

Buttons 0.75

Buttons 1

Coins

Cross for necklace

Fleur de lys for necklace

Guncase

Match Coat

Sailors bag

Shoe buckles

Sundial

Wool Blanket

 

Accessories

Well, what are accesories, from the blanket you warm yourself at night, to the buttons you had to your clothes, these are all accesories. And remember, the difference between two costumes are the accesories.

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Match Coat

Name: Match Coat
Type: Accessories
Price: 55$ USD
55$ CAD

Others models
- blanket

Match Coat

The match coat is basicaly a wool blanket that has gold trim sown to it to give it a more distinguish look and eye appeling for the native. Same as our regular blanket this or made out of good quality wool that does not fray

Size : about 1½ X 1½ yard

Colors : Brick red, CFM blue, Roger Ranger, Dark olive, Black, Charcoal, CFM light grey
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Sailors bag

Name: Sailors bag
Type: Accessories
Price: 25$ USD
25$ CAD

Sailors bag

Product details:
Our sailor bag is made of rugged canvas of varying colours.
Historical facts:
When an enlisted man received his uniforms and other items in Boot Camp a salty Petty Officer tossed to him a canvas sack, a Sailors Bag. From then on the sailor kept in it everything he owned. He lugged his Sailors Bag with him to every station and ship. Mementos from those places where he served gathered in his Sailors Bag. It became a storehouse for his memories of his service.
Rummaging through his Sailors Bag a sailor could trace his career, where he had been, ships on which he had sailed, actions in which he had taken part, and shipmates he would always remember. In that sense, the repository of his memories of his time in the naval service was his Sailors Bag.

Colors : White, natural, beige, moss, khaki, grey, gold, toffy, rust, red, faded blue, blue, mint, dark green, walnut, dark brown, black
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Shoe buckles

Name: Shoe buckles
Type: Accessories
Price: 35$ USD
35$ CAD

Shoe buckles

This premium quality shoe buckles have been choose amoung a lot of other because they are strong and won't break twice in the same week-end. Well as you know we've sold thousands of shoes over the years and we were looking for a good pair and there they are.

Style : Plane, Fancy square, Fancy flower

Colors : the tooth are iron and the surrounding is brass
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Sundial

Name: Sundial
Type: Accessories
Price: 25$ USD
25$ CAD

Sundial

Product details:
Our sundial is made of sturdy metal and easy to use, hang it on a string, look at all the different letters, align the hole with the first letter of the right month you are in, if at beginning of month align it closer to the line separating the other letter and vice-versa for later in the month. Hang it from the string and make sure it is perpendicular with the shadows, the light of the sun will enter through the little hole and project a spec of light at one of the numbers inside the ring, telling you what time it is depending on the number and how close it is to the other numbers.
It is waterproof and will never run out of batteries (little joke here of course).

Historical facts:
The sundial is the oldest known device for the measurement of time and the most ancient of scientific instruments. It is based on the fact that the shadow of an object will move from one side of the object to the other as the sun “moves” from east to west during the day.
5000-3500 BC
The first device for indicating the time of day was probably the gnomon. It consisted of a vertical stick or pillar; the length of the shadow it cast gave an indication of the time of day.
3500 BC
Sumer becomes the world’s first civilization. (Sumer is an ancient region of southern Mesopotamia – which is now southeastern Iraq.)
2500-2000 BC
Babylonians and Egyptians build obelisks (slender, tapering four-sided monuments). Their moving shadows formed a kind of sundial, enabling citizens to divide the day into two parts by indicating noon. They also showed the year’s longest and shortest days when the shadow at noon was the longest or shortest of the year. Later, marks around the base of the monument would show further time divisions.
800 BC
More precise sundials are built in Egypt. The earliest known sundial still preserved is an Egyptian shadow clock of green schist dating from at least this period. It consists of a straight base with a raised crosspiece at one end. The base, on which is inscribed a scale of six time divisions, is placed in an east-west direction with the crosspiece at the east end in the morning and the west end in the afternoon. The shadow of the crosspiece on the base indicates the time.
300 BC
The earliest description of a sundial comes from Berossus, a Babylonian priest and author. His sundial is a cubical block into which a half-sphere is cut. A small bead is fixed at the centre. During the day the shadow of the bead moves in a circular arc, divided into twelve equal parts. Because the length of the day varies with the season, these hours likewise vary in length from season to season and are thus known as “temporary hours.” (“Equal hours” were decided upon about 1300 AD, when mechanical clocks were invented.)
290 BC
The first sundial is set up in Rome. It has been captured from the Samnites.
250 BC
The Greeks develop and construct complex sundials using their knowledge of geometry:
- Apollonius of Perga develops the hemicyclium by using a surface of conic section upon which the hour lines are inscribed; thus providing greater accuracy.
- Ptolemy uses the analemma, a device that enables shadows to be projected geometrically onto flat surfaces inclined at various angles to the horizontal.
164 BC
The first sundial is constructed for the city of Rome designed by architect and engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. He mentions many types of sundials, some of which are portable, in his great work De architectura.
100 BC
The Tower of the Winds is constructed in Athens. It is octagonal in shape and contains eight sundials. Sundials facing various cardinal compass points were in use at least since then.
100 AD
It is discovered that the shadow cast by a slanting object is a more accurate timekeeper than a shadow cast by a vertical object. If the shadow-casting object is parallel to the earth’s axis, the direction of its shadow at any given hour of the day is constant regardless of the season of the year.
150 AD
The Greeks introduce trigonometry into mathematics, thus supplying the tool for plotting hour lines with simple arithmetic calculations instead of the more cumbersome geometric constructions. This method will be exploited by the Arabs and later by European sundial makers.
1200 AD
Ab û al-Hasan writes on the construction of hour lines on cylindrical, conical, and other surfaces and is credited with introducing equal hours, at least for astronomical purposes.
1300 AD
The first all-mechanical clock is made. It is a large iron-framed structure, driven by weights. The function of the first European clocks was not to indicate the time on a dial, but to drive dials that give astronomical indications, and to sound the hour. They are located in monasteries and public bell towers. The earliest surviving example, constructed in 1386, is in Salisbury Cathedral, England. Mechanical clocks utilize equal hours.
1500-1800 AD
The great age of the European sundial. Sundials with equal hours gradually come into use.
1635 AD
Galileo designs a clock using a pendulum as the timekeeping element.
1656 AD
The first pendulum clock model is completed by Christian Huygens in Holland. The use of the pendulum improves the timekeeping of clocks so much that all new clocks incorporate it.
1777 AD
French general Lafayette wants to express his respect and admiration for his ally and friend General George Washington during the American revolution. He chooses as his gift a silver Explorer sundial.
1700’s AD
Clocks and watches begin to replace sundials. They have the advantage of not requiring sunny skies. They are, however, often unreliable and depend upon sundials to set the true time.
Early 1800’s AD
Mechanical clocks become accurate enough and inexpensive enough to displace sundials as the timepiece of choice.
Because of the earth’s rotation, a town 20 or 30 miles east or west has it’s clock set slightly differently. Your noon arrived somewhat before that of your western neighbour but sometime after that of your eastern neighbour. This made little difference because a resident might never travel to either of his neighbouring towns.
1884 AD
Railroads are the preferred method of travel. Railroads demand schedules and schedules require “true” time. Along a 100 mile stretch of tracks there might be 6 towns with 6 different town clocks all different from the others. Passengers need to know when the train will arrive and depart and railroaders need to know when to send the next train in order to avoid accidents.
A conference is held and an agreement reached to divide the United States of America into four time zones, each 15 degrees wide – Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific, and all stations in a time zone would carry the same time. In fact, train time which is rigorously held to by the railroads becomes the time that cities and citizens set their clocks by. The train whistle becomes the signal for setting clocks.
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Wool Blanket

Name: Wool Blanket
Type: Accessories
Price: 40$ USD
40$ CAD

Others models
- match coat

Wool Blanket

They are made out of boiled wool and are really warm. It can be worn with a blanket pin, as a wrap around or just over the shoulder. You can also see that type of blanket in the native tribe. But if you really want the trading blanket we have it. You can find it under match coat.

Size : 60" X 60"

Colors : Brick red, CFM blue, Roger Ranger, Dark olive, Black, Charcoal, CFM light grey
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