Selling Wooden Boxes
Up until the end of his life, Adner's modest artisan activity consisted of building and selling his wooden creations. In those years, the region of Berchtesgaden had strict commerce regulations. Each wood artisan could make just one determined kind of production, so Adner specialized in making wooden boxes of many uses, basically decorative, for storing divers things of every-day usage, including foodstuff, valuables, toys, etcetera.
Berchtesgaden also imposed important fees for the production which crossed the frontier. Nonetheless, things which were carried personally by someone were exempted of this, therefore -like many other artisans- Adner decided transporting his goods afoot with a backpack far beyond Berchtesgadener Land, so reaching throughout Bavaria, and even more distantly to Austria and Switzerland. The wooden boxes were so carried by Adner, over his shoulder and even over his head. Indeed, he kept doing this even after his centenary age.
For a pastime, Anton Adner got usually engaged, knitting picturesque socks, for selling those too, with his wooden boxes.
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