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Wooden drill of rough finish medium tone wood, with cut nails and thick iron band holding drill together on one side. large wooden knob on opposite side.
Description:
wooden drill, soft wood. iron ring holds chuck to main body of brace. one bit with broken cutter. leather gaskets at pad. nice form, unusual chuck attachment.
Date:
18th C.
Item type:
large wooden drill
Early wooden drill bit stock with brass button chuck
Description:
wooden and brass. old repairs to cracked sweep. drill bit
Date:
c. 1875-1900
Item type:
drill
Sickle with short wooden handle attached to long, narrow metal curve. (used especially for cutting grass)
Description:
The handle of the sickle has three small, deep gashes. Hand-forged steel blade with wooden handle. Typical of Eastern Pennsylvania.
Date:
mid-19th C.
Item type:
grain hook sickle
Cooper's borer; tool with thin wooden handle, hollow metal extension which tapers to coil shape and then to screw point.
Description:
Cooper's borer; tool. Steel borer with wooden handle.
Date:
early 20th C.
Item type:
Cooper's bunghole borer
Cooper's bung; wooden handle, with metal shovel-shaped extension whcih tapers to a spiral tip.
Description:
Cooper's Bung. Tip is broken off. Hand-forged.
Date:
first half of 19th C.
Item type:
cooper's bung
Twist auger; large gimlet with wooden handle and metal extension, whose coils end in a tiny screw point.
Description:
Handled Twist Auger. Extreme edges of handle are rough. they have been sawed off. Gimlet starter, wooden handle. Hand-forged steel.
Item type:
handled twist auger gimlet
Twist auger; very large gimlet with wooden handle and metal, extension whose large coils end in tiny screw point.
Description:
Twist auger; edges of the handle are rounded. Handled auger. Gimlet starter. Wooden handle. Steel is hand-forged.
Item type:
handled twist auger, large gimlet
Stanley #28 transitional bench plane
Description:
Bench Plane. Wooden body with steel fittings.
Item type:
bench plane
Unhandled wedge arm beech wood plow plane or filister
Description:
Beech wood plow plane or fillister, No maker listed.
Item type:
plow plane or filister
Unhandled screw arm, beech wood, two arm plow plane
Description:
Plow plane by Israel White, plane maker in Philadelphia, 1831-1839. lignum vitae boxing on fence. fence chipped front and back, unusual depth stop control.
Date:
c. 1830
Item type:
plow plane
Wooden fiister: a rabbeting plane with an adjustable fence, beech wood
Description:
Wooden filister that appears American made, missing nicker and nicker wedge
Item type:
filister
Long wooden fore plane
Description:
Fore plane with closed handle and straight-edge blade; bottom has thin, deep cracks running through it. strokes of green visible on bottom. beech wood. by D. Colton, Phila.
Date:
1840-1850's
Item type:
foreplane (trying plane)
Wooden bench plane
Description:
Bench plane with closed handle, straight-edge blade and long stock which provided a longer guide surface for long boards. Blade is very loose. Handle has many chips and scratches. Beech wood. by D. Colton, Philadelphia Resoled.
Date:
1845-1850's
Item type:
bench plane (trying plane)
Dark wooden box with a plaque which encases light wood gavel.
Description:
Light wood gavel. Same kind of wood is used for plaque which has black metal square with gold lettering. Box has hinged door, and open front (it appears that glass was there at one time). wooden box, with a plaque encasing a wooden gavel Typed paper…
Item type:
190a- wooden box 190b- gavel 190c- plaque
Wood bit, made of beech wood; tool
Description:
wood bit; tool. wrought iron ring repair around neck of chuck. straight sweep, unusually nice form due to carving at front of sweep
Date:
18th C.
Item type:
wood bit stock
Wooden ruler with 1/16 of an inch / millimeter markings
Description:
Ruler, numbers are painted onto the ruler in black
Item type:
triangular wooden ruler
Thin, medium-bladed metal saw blade.
Description:
Saw Blade in circular form, bound by a thin metal wire. Very rusty saw blade.
Item type:
circular saw blade
Short, blunt-ended, wide-bladed saw blade
Description:
Short, blunt-ended, wide-bladed saw blade
Item type:
saw blade
Very long narrow, wide-bladed saw blade
Description:
Saw blade. Finger prints and rust visible on saw blade.
Item type:
saw blade
Miniature saw with thin steel wide-bladed saw with open wooden handle
Description:
Miniature saw. Two nails in the wooden handle hold the blade in place. Black fingerprints are visible on the blade. miniature saw.
Item type:
miniature saw
Cooper's borer; tool. wooden handle and metal shovel-type bit
Description:
cooper's borer; tool. tapers to spiral and then to a point at the tip. early, hand-forged
Date:
c. 1800-1850
Item type:
cooper's bunghole borer
Copper plate with photographic image
Description:
Copper plate with photographic image of men in uniform standing behind three men in suits- one facing the viewer's right, one wearing a Carpenters' Co. badge and one holding a shovel scratches are visible on the plate itself. The image was…
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate
Description:
Copper plate depicts bespectacled man wearing Carpenters' Co. Badge accepting or presenting a certificate from or to the man seen in CCCCP-179 and CCCCP-180. Plate has many small scratches on its left side.
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate attached to wooden block.
Description:
Copper printing plate attached to a wooden block. Visible on the plate are seven men in uniform and a man in a suit also seen in CCCCP-179 and CCCCP-181. 2 of 4 plates.
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate attached to wooden block depicts two men in military costumes, one flag and a man in a suit standing in a grassy field
Description:
Printing plate and accompanying wooden block. Bottom of wooden block attached to the copper plate is two-toned. 1 of 4.
Item type:
copper plate
Plate with image of Patrick Henry postcard and painting. plate is attached to wooden block.
Description:
Copper plate probably used for printing. Plate looks worn and has scratches on it. Black ink has seeped from the plate into the block.
Item type:
copper plate
Metal door plate with "LIBRARY" printed in raised letters.
Description:
Metal Door Plate that reads: "Library." Nail hooks are at either end of the door plate. the back of the plate is very rusty.
Item type:
metal door plate
Rectangular metal door plate decorated with repeated linear designs and floral patterns.
Description:
one of a set of four metal door plates; decorative. holes at top, middle and bottom for nails. CCCCP-176a and CCCCP-176b have gold tint. CCCCP-176c and CCCCP-176d are painted brown.
Item type:
decorative door plate
Circular engraving on a square wooden block, printing plate.
Description:
Printing Plate. Circular engraving is placed in middle of square wooden block, printing plate. Around the seal, the wood has been roughly carved away. The seal is surrounded on four sides by fourteen silved rectangles of varying thicknesses. This is…
Item type:
printing plate
Engraved Copper Plate
Description:
Engraved copper plate attached to thick small rectangular wooden block with image of Carpenters' Hall engraved on the plate. Small areas have chipped off the copper plate in the upper right and left hand corners and in the center and on the bottom…
Item type:
Engraved copper plate on a wooden block
Wedgewood plate
Description:
Wedgewood plate to commemorate 100 years as national shrine with drawing of Hall. Sticker (presently removed from plate due to dirt) saying "From A Lithograph by Grant M. Simon F.A.I.A. inscription on the back says: "CARPENTERS' COMPANY-…
Date:
1957
Item type:
1957 commemorative plate
Wooden level.
Description:
Wooden level, reinforced with small steel plates on the ends and on one side. A device used for establishing a horizontal line or plane. tool, Stanley level, catalog # 3.. Board equipped with a small glass tube of alcohol or oil and a tiny air bubble…
Item type:
spirit level
Small heavy metal die, used to stamp objects
Description:
Die with eight-sided handle. on the bottom side of the handle are three narrow carved parallel lines.
Item type:
die
Small grey sandstone
Description:
sandstone; Grey stone with sandy texture and quite a bit of mica ingrained in it.
Item type:
sandstone
Porcelan plate with gold and black rim. commemorative plate for coronation
Description:
Worcester Plate. On front of plate is the symbol of the Carpenters' Co. flanked by two cherubs sitting on gold decorative forms and holding a ruler and two small boards and the date, June 2, 1953. On the back of the plate is this inscription in gold…
Item type:
Royal Worcester plate
Rectangular copper plate with six designs of "sashes."
Description:
Copper plate engraved with six different designs. All six designs vary. Five are labeled as Fig. 6 through Fig. 10. Inside the design on the lower left hand corner, are the words "Gothic sashes." These engravings are not seen in The Carpenters'…
Item type:
engraved copper plate
Copper plate with two engravings of Chinese railings
Description:
Copper plate with two engravings. These engravings are Plate XXVIII of The Carpenters' Co. 1786 Rule Book. They are labelled as "Fig. 1" and "Fig. 2." Fig. 1 railing is composed of diagonal lines crossing within a rectangle. Fig. 2 railing is…
Item type:
engraved copper plate
Copper plate engraved with images of a gate and five styles of "pales" for a palisade fence.
Description:
Copper Plate. On the top half of the plate, there are three groups of two "pales," eachof the six a different style. The groups are labelled, "Fig. 1," "Fig. 2" and "Fig. 3." The gate is labelled as such. The engraver has made it appear that both its…
Item type:
Engraved copper plate
Engraved copper plate
Description:
Copper Plate. The two designs on the shiny side are printed as plate XX in the Carpenters' Co. Rule Book of 1786. They are described as "Dog-leg'd or Plain Open Newel Stairs." The very detailed designs on the dull side are not found in the Rule Book.
Item type:
Engraved copper plate
Copper plate with two designs on the shiny side and fragments of other designs on the dull side.
Description:
Copper Plate. The two designs on the shiny side are printed as plate XX in the Carpenters' Co. Rule Book of 1786. They are described as "Dog-leg'd or Plain Open Newel Stairs." The very detailed designs on the dull side are not found in the Rule Book.
Item type:
engraved copper plate
Copper plate with engraved designs on both sides
Description:
Copper Plate. The shiny side of the plate has designs which are seen as plates XV and XVI of The Carpenters' Co. Rule Book of 1786. They are described as "Trussed Partitions" and "Paneled Door Details." The six designs on the duller side are seen as…
Item type:
engraved copper plate
Copper plate with two engraved designs.
Description:
Engraved Copper Plate. One design is of a fireplace; the other is a detail. Both designs are reproduced as plate XXVII of the Carpenters' Co. Rule Book of 1786. They are listed as "Georgian-style Chimneypiece in wood."
Item type:
engraved copper plate
Copper plate with 3 engraved designs of various sizes and shapes.
Description:
Copper Plate. Three designs are reproduced as plate XVIii in the Carpenters' Co. Rule Book of 1786, listed as "Extra Heavy Paneled Doors." Dark discoloring on the back. Fragments of 5 other designs are inscribed on the back. They are similar to those…
Item type:
engraved copper plate
Copper plate with 6 engraved designs of doorjambs of various sizes.
Description:
Thin copper plate. All six designs are shown as plate IX in the Carpenters' Company Rule Book of 1786. They are described as "doorjambs."
Item type:
Engraved copper plate.
Copper plate with 6 different engraved designs of half circular windowpanes on it.
Description:
Engraved copper plate. All six designs on the copper plate are same size and shape externally. Within the semi-circular frame, the designs vary from very simple to very ornate. Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 are depicted as plate XIII in the Carpenters' Company…
Item type:
engraved copper plate
Long-handled, heavy metal branding iron saying "CARPENTERS' CO."
Description:
Metal branding iron saying "CARPENTERS' CO." handle is octagonally-shaped and narrows near the top handle. Imprint matched brand which appears on all 18c. Windsor chairs.
Item type:
branding iron
Group of small screws and nails
Description:
Three 1" rusty screws, two small cut nails, one 2.125" hand wrought nail, one bent piece of metal with white paint chipping off it.
Item type:
screws and nails
Scribe; metal rod sharpened on both ends
Description:
Steel Scribe. The middle area is thicker, octagonally-shaped and marked with many vertical slashes on each side. Mechanic made.
Item type:
scribe
Scribe; long thin metal rod
Description:
Scribe with sharp point. Top is round and flat
Item type:
scribe