[PW] Re: Meaning of peca

[Harry G. Osoff]

I apologize.
I got the messages in the wrong order

Allens, guess of alpaca seems pretty good

Harry
On Sep 6, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Jack Bowman wrote:

Folks,

Context: a document on Nicaraguan exports to the US in the 1930s. Source
text is a report by the US legation in Managua at the time. Author of
the report says that about a tenth of Nicaragua's exports to the US in
1934 consisted of "balsam, 'peca and hides".  Note the inverted comma
before peca, indicating that the word is a contraction.

Can anyone even guess what 'peca might be?

Thanks,
JB
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