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Author: Black, William.
Date: 1894

Description: Match plane; beech wood. Used for cutting wooden tongues. Arm wedge broken and toe torn. Handle cracked at base. By John M. Barkley, Baltimore, MD. Made in earlier part Barkley's career.
Date: 1816-24
Item type: match plane

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Description: Bench Plane of handled steel and brass. Black paint on metal is chipping. bench plane brass sides with steel sole. front handle reworked.
Date: 1850-1875
Item type: bench plane

Description: Rail plane; beech wood. Rare, but missing cutter and wedge. The plane is cracked along bottom of body. By J. Colton, Phila. M.A. Boyle, owner.
Date: c.1860-90
Item type: rail plane

Description: Round plane; Beech wood. Toe and handle of the plane is worn. Manufactured by Auburn Tool Co., Auburn, NY.
Item type: round plane

Description: Round plane; beech wood. Manufactured by H. Chapin, Union Factory. Wood is badly rotted.
Item type: round plane

Description: Handled Ogee/Molding Plane. Fine Lignum vitae double boxing by J.T. Jones, Philadelphia. D. Wallace, owner. The plane has a blade missing.
Date: 1831-46
Item type: molding plane, ogee plane

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Description: jack plane used for rough, preliminary planing. 1 1/16" nosing cut convex edge of blade enabled it to cut deeply. gold / brown paint is smeared on one side of the stock (base). small nail near base of handle. Beech wood. by Samuel Bibighaus,…
Date: 1850's
Item type: jack plane

Description: Molding plane; beech wood. Upon the plane, there are two makers' stamps, incised and embossed. Two different makers' addresses. By J. Colton, Phila. and M.A. Boyle.
Item type: Molding plane

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Description: Thin sheet of metal reinforces area near blade- attached with 5 large flat nails. Wedge arms. Beech wood. Replacement wedge. rabbet plane
Item type: rabbet plane

Description: Handled Cornice plane; by J. Colton, Phila. Blade and some boxing missing. M.A. Boyle, owner. Rare plane.
Date: c. 1850
Item type: cornice plane

Author: Lardner, D.
Date: 1851

Author: Wagner, Rudolf
Date: 1872

Author: Hall, Emery S.
Date: 1909

Description: Hand-forged butteris, 19th century. Unusual in that blade angle may be adjusted by screw mechanism. steel stock and blade, brass ferrule. Wooden handle.
Date: 19th C.
Item type: butteris

Description: 2nd of two metal hand drills with wooden handle. Drill size approx. 2"
Item type: metal hand drill

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Description: metal hand drill with wooden handle and drill size approx. 2"
Item type: metal hand drill

Author: Botta, Anne C. L.
Date: 1873

Description: William C. Hancock was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1831. He served as Warden of the Company in 1836 and on the Managing Committee in 1839. In 1820 he was listed in the City Directory as an owner of a…
Member number: 303*
Date elected: 1/1/1831

Member number: 382
Date elected: 7/25/1855

Description: Hammerman's Guild framed photographic print of original emblem. "Carved front from Hammerman's loft, Old St. Nicholas Kirk, Dalkieth, Midlothian. Original now in Royal Museum, Edinburgh." Written on small engraved plate on frame. Gift to the…
Item type: framed print

Description: Israel Hallowell was a master builder, a founder of the Friendship Carpenters Company, and an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book on architecture published in…
Member number: 147*
Birth date: 1/1/1743
Date elected: 1/1/1786

Description: John Hall was a master builder, a founder of the Friendship Carpenters Company (1769) and an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book on architecture pubished in…
Member number: 145*
Date elected: 1/1/1786
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