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Seth Thomas Clock, rectangular wall clock of dark wood w/ round face, Roman numerals, rectang. base.
Description:
Glass door with gold design and word "REGULATOR" in front of copper-colored pendulum. On window is gold (leaf?) image of ships on an ocean, some decorative leaf-like imagery. Inside clock is a sticker: "From C.R. Smith & Sons S.E. Corner of 18th and…
Item type:
clock
Seth Thomas type hanging wall clock
Description:
Hanging wall clock; Rosewood veneered case with circular calendar dial and clock face.
Date:
c. 1855
Item type:
clock
Shoemaker, Thomas
Description:
Thomas Shoemaker was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company on 1 February 1769, the same year he appears in the Philadelphia tax lists as a resident of the North Ward. He was an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan,…
Member number:
74*
Date elected:
1/1/1769
Short-stemmed silver metal drill bit.
Description:
Drill bit; stem has deep incision. circular tip has deep, wide incision which leads to tip. stem is rusty, but tip is still shiny.
Item type:
drill bit
Short, blunt-ended, wide-bladed saw blade
Description:
Short, blunt-ended, wide-bladed saw blade
Item type:
saw blade
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