Say 100 years ago, how many different types of vessels and things that were made by coopers, how many would you find in a typical household?

Most common everyday vessels, like up to the mid-1800s, there was apparently 11,000 coopers in Ireland.

11,000 lads swinging a hammer every day and making all sorts of vessels.

So there was a couple of factions of coopering.

Wet coopering, which would be what we now know mainly, which is for distilleries, wineries.

There was dry coopering, which would have been containing dry goods in a vessel, like just for transport, apples, flour, nails, gunpowder even in some cases.

So you had to have each faction dealing with each type of coopering.

So what did an old cooperage smell? uh what did that sound like what did what did that smell like in the old