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By JANE BANGLEY
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The days of craftsmanship and quality in products have returned. Jeeee Pond of Sperryville has brought than back along with a 1920b style wagon.
“It is a copy of the depression era news boy wagon,” said Pond, who builds the wagons in a shop in the basement of his home. Theyare hand-made, using oak, stainless steel, and wrought iron fittings and wheels.
"I saw an ad in the New Yorker Magazine for the wagons, and I got the idea to build some myself,” said Pond. He describee the process as a true cottage industry.
Pond buys the materials from others, but in his shop be glues the wood so that it is straight, he works the iron into the shapes needed for fittings, he paints the iron and wheels a bright red, and he stains the wood.
‘The ones in the New Yorker are going for $166 phis handling, but I’m selling mine for $125,” he said. “Sometimes I call them grandpa wagons because no parent will buy a ldd a wagon for that price, but a grandparent would.”
Pond has had one of his wagons auctioned off for $200, but the rest are going to area stores to sell. They will be available at the Antique
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