Thursday 31 December 2015

Tooling up for the new year


Happy New Year to both my readers
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10 comments:

  1. No 8 is a Fisher Patent Bevel Square Protractor Level - tools don't have the same decoration these days.
    Happy New Year!

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    1. You're so right Rog ~ Thank you and a happy new year to you and yours.

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  2. Rog - I think I'm going to leave all the 19th/20th century things to you. I only know about the earlier stuff- what a good team we'll make - Crowbard won't know what's hit him.

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  3. P.s. 6 is a handsome pair of treen dividers, 18/early 19th century.

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    1. Just so Mike, this particular pair belonged to a cooper and are typical of that trade.

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  4. Yes, this one's a bird-cage awl. Brass handle and steel prong.

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  5. (9) is, I think, a small hammer, with a claw at the other end for removing small nails. Probably an upholsterers hammer, 19th/early20th century.

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  6. Yes, specifically for equestrian upholstery ~ It's a Conklin's patent saddler's hammer, size No.5.

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  7. 1. A boxwood & brass clinometer.
    3. A brown & Berry's six-stem marking gauge, patented 7 July 1868.
    4. A buttonhole chisel.
    5. A Cooper's combination sun-plane and croze by G W Manning circa 1870.
    7. An ebony handled double marking knife with right & left blades.

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