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THE FASCINATING WORLD OF EARLY TOOLS & TRADES
55 articles on tools and trades selected from the thousands of articles published by the Journal of the Early American Industries Association over the past 60 years. They cover a wide variety of subjects including the bygone cobbler and clogmaker; cutting, hewing and squaring a beam; nail making; traditional soap making; barrels made by hand; old time fencing and the many uses of horn
234 x 155 mm. 424 pages. Fully illustrated and indexed. Hb
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EDWARD PRESTON & SONS LTD.
1908-1912 CATALOGUE
A reprint of an important catalogue of this leading high quality Birmingham tool maker (founded 1825). It lists some 600 rules and 300 levels, planes and other tools and equipment. The company also produced such diverse items as a lawyer's bodkin and a robust sardine can opener. A 26-page introduction by Mark Rees discusses the history, working practices, designs, patent and trade marks of the company.
280 x 218 mm. 224 pp. 100s of line illustrations. Pb .
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TOOLS: A GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS. 2nd Edition.
Jane and Mark Rees,
New material on the metal plane and American tools with an additional 16 pages of text. All price guides updated and all text reviewed. The first guide of its kind to be published on British tools. All types of tools listed under 80 categories. Advice on the why and how of collecting, buying and selling, cleaning and presentation. Materials used in the making of tools, makers and trademarks, patents and registered designs. Above all, a wealth of fine illustrations, backed up by prices realized at auction and from other sources. An exercise in pricing is shown in the tables the authors give for pricing wooden planes. Collecting tips appear throughout. Hitherto unpublished information is given here. Something for everyone from the wooden plane collector to those fancying piano adjusters' tools.
298 x 210 mm. 256 pages. 100s of line illustrations. Pb. |
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DICTIONARY OF WOODWORKING TOOLS. R. A. Salaman
This is the 2nd edition, revised by Philip Walker, of what has become recognized as the definitive reference work on handtools used in the woodworking trades. Every known tool is described. Over 450 town and country workshops were visited in the compiling of this record. The purpose of each tool is explained and many of the original methods and sayings of tradesmen are also recorded.
187 mm. 546 pages. 740 line drawings. Pb. |
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THE HANDSAW CATALOGUE COLLECTION (1910 - 1919).
Reprint of the handsaw sections of the main catalogues of the following major makers: Spear & Jackson (Sheffield) 1915, Disston (Philadelphia) 1918, Atkins (Indianapolis) 1919, Simonds (Massachusetts) 1910
253 x 177 mm. 136 pp. Illustrated throughout. Pb.
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HAND-SAW MAKERS OF BRITAIN
Frank L. Schaffer & Don McConnell.
This is a check list of English and Scottish hand-saw makers containing some 1500 names and addresses and dates including no less than 18 Tyzacks and with 81 pages of saw-makers' advertisements.
255 x 155 mm. 112 pages. 42 b&w engravings. Pb |
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