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The Lobster Plug Story in West Pubnico
Location: Musée acadien et Archives,West Pubnico

 
Splitting pine blocks with a knife and a wooden mallet.
1 of 32 		Splitting knife and pine block.
2 of 32 		Wooden mallet used for banging the knife through the pine.
3 of 32 		Hand made wooden lobster plugs.
4 of 32 		Bunches of ten lobster pegs.
5 of 32 		Club chewing tobacco can full of hand made plugs. These cans held approximately 1000 plugs.
6 of 32
A paper bag containing 1000 plugs.
7 of 32 		Lobster claw showing in which joint the plug was inserted.
8 of 32 		A well worn stone, used for sharpening peg making knives.
9 of 32 		Sharpening stone and peg knife.
10 of 32 		Wooden box that held peg making articles. A common sight in many households years ago.
11 of 32 		Tobacco cutter used to slice pine blocks.
12 of 32
Large knife used to split pine blocks.
13 of 32 		Thumb protectors.(doigtans)
14 of 32 		Marjorie d'Entremont making lobster plugs at the ''Musée acadien''.
15 of 32 		Making lobster plugs at the ''Musée acadien''.
16 of 32 		Picture frame decorated with lobster plugs.
17 of 32 		Making lobster plugs at the ''Musée acadien''.
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