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Maud Maude's
January 1892 article

"The Art of Pyrography or Poker-Work—No. 1"
in The Delineator Magazine

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The Art of Pyrography or Poker-Work—No. 1 by Mrs. Maud Maude Adapted from The Delineator Magazine, January 1892, pp. 82–83. Published by The Butterick Co., London & New York.

In 1891, Mrs. Maud Maude authored one of the earliest, if not the earliest, popular book on the subject of pyrography in the U.K. just as the art form was becoming a fad with amateurs. It was in 1890 that the compact version of the tool invented by Manuel-Perier of France and introduced in 1889 at the Paris Exposition had made its way to England under another name, i.e., the Vulcan Wood Etching Machine for Pyrography or Poker Work.

Maud Maude's book was so popular that reprints soon followed. In the United States, the publisher of The Delineator Magazine commissioned her to do a series of three articles for them. Her first article, displayed here, offers an excellent introduction to the then newly burgeoning technique and details very carefully and thoughtfully the steps necessary to correctly use the benzine-fueled thermo-pyorgraphy tool manufactured by Abbott Bros. and its platinum points.

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