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Message:: [QUOTE="SYNCHRONCITY, post: 2453164, member: 6283"]That was so fascinating to read. I love those examples you showed! Those pieces are so beautiful. Thanks you so much for sharing your knowledge with me and the rest of the people on this forum. I appreciate you. I started reading up on apprentices and found out apprenticeships were almost like slavery in a way. Basically what I read here: <a href="https://www.finewoodworking.com/2019/04/24/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-of-period-apprenticeships" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.finewoodworking.com/2019/04/24/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-of-period-apprenticeships" rel="nofollow">https://www.finewoodworking.com/2019/04/24/the-bad-and-the-beautiful-of-period-apprenticeships</a> was that a lot of the apprentices called the people they signed an apprenticeship contract with their "masters" and were held to that contract and were often whipped, beaten and would run away because their "masters" were so mean and cruel. When they ran away, their "masters" would put ads in the newspaper offering rewards if they were found <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I had no idea that these apprentices went through all of this and sometimes were used as cheap labor. I am now going to be looking for more of these little pieces as they are so cool![/QUOTE]