Evidently wooden ‘cart stakes’ were initially hand made by Wanderers in the UK, who offered them house to house. Once in a while they were cut from hedgerow wood, some of the time they were only two or three sticks bound along with segments of tin.
In Tasmania during the Economic crisis of the early 20s a seller known as One-Peered toward Mrs Brown or Mama Brown followed a similar custom. She sold enormous garments stakes produced using willow, setting up camp as she advanced around the State.
A Tasmanian companion, Jen Eddington, let me know that her grandma purchased stakes from Mrs Earthy colored when she peddled them at Parkham, a provincial region close to Deloraine. I was captivated to hear this, in light of the fact that my own Grandma lived close by at Reedy Bog, and presumably purchased the stakes as well. As per Jen’s mom, individuals were excessively hesitant to decline the old woman, since she had an exceptionally harsh tongue. One more stake peddler was an individual known as Yorky’. During the 1940s he sold his products around St Marys. He excessively set up camp in the bramble with his loot.
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