caskmakers

Updated: May 5, 2025

There is something patriarchal and princely about such a house, almost unknown in our businesses at home from the portraits of the founders, from the caskmakers, at lunch-time, broiling their own fish over a huge fireplace and drawing wine from the common cask as they have done for generations; the stencils in the shipping-room "Baltimore," "Bogota," "Buenos Aires," "Chicago," "Calcutta," "Christiania," "Caracas" from things like these to the personality and point of view of the men who have the business in charge.

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