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John Martin: Expert Observer - Rustic furniture, Bangor, 1865

"He had found "some curiosities in cedar crooks" in the woods, cut them and found someone hauling a load of wood to carry the cedar out of the woods…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Gate no 2 design, Bangor, 1867

"… the gate would be "filled with small round cedar crooks and straight poles as convenience may occur and hung on iron grudgeons set in the centre of…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's cart, Hampden, ca. 1833

"… wheels and the idea started from an instance of a crooked limb which I found while gunning in the woods that I invented a cart tongue such as are…"