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price stated for match sticks two feet in length is one penny per 4,000, 

 and this manufacture gives employment to nearly 700 persons. 



Of the sounding-hoards an excellent exhibition is made by D. Bienert 

 and Son, of Maderhauser, in Bohemia, who supplied the Messrs. Broad- 

 wood as early as 1827 with piano sounding-boards. 



The annual produce exported by this firm is very remarkable ; it 

 comprises : — 



Pieces. 

 Cut sounding-boards - from 35,000 to 40,000 



Cleft sounding-boards „ 6,000 „ 8,000 



Tops (36 ft. square each) „ 2,500 „ 3,000 



Key-wood (18 in. to 32 in. long and 9 



to 15$ sq. ft.) - - - - „ 18,000 „ 20,000 



Rips ---------- 300 



Frame-wood .._----- 2,400 



Violoncello and double-bass tops __-■-- 50 



Violin and bass-viol tops ------ 500 



Guitar tops .___.--- 500 



The value is estimated at 17,000Z. sterling, and gives employment to 

 more than 100 persons, the mills being worked by water-power. 



Another exhibitor, John Reif, of Kuschwarda, in Bohemia, also sends 

 sounding-boards of the very first quality, together with a variety of pre- 

 pared wood goods, as hatchet-handles, sieve-hoops, pencil-casings, piano 

 keys, eovers, and frames, &c. 



Excellently prepared wood for joiners' purposes is also shown by 

 Samuel Bamoosa, of Pesth, and by Francis Stemdl, jun., of Pesth. 



Veneers and gunstocks are exhibited of excellent quality by the 

 Veneer Cutting Company of Bistritz. The veneers are of walnut and ash 

 roots and knots, showing good curl. The gunstocks are of walnut wood, 

 and are offered at very low prices. 



Nothing more remarkable is shown than the really wonderful mar- 

 quetry veneers of Francis and Matthew Podany, of Vienna, which rival 

 tissue-paper in thinness, and are so remarkably perfect that not even the 

 smallest hole is seen in any of the specimens exhibited. 



The manufacture of pegs for boot and shoe makers is now extensively 

 carried on in Austria, and the pegs are exhibited in great variety and of 

 excellent make by Messrs. Zeidler and Menzel, of Schonau, in Bohemia, 

 who employ one hundred men and twenty-nine machines worked by 

 water-power ; they produce annually 200 tons of these pegs, which are 

 all used by the Austrian, German, and Russian shoemakers. 



Excellent pegs are also shown by John Rattich and Son, of Ivumaur, 

 and by A. Perner, oi Budweis, in Bohemia. The wood of the maple 

 (Acer campestre) is used in this manufacture. 



The manufacture of the celebrated agriot, or cherry-sticks for pipes, 

 is peculiar to Austria ; these pipe-sticks are the stems of the perfumed 



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