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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Very long narrow, wide-bladed saw blade
Description:
Saw blade. Finger prints and rust visible on saw blade.
Item type:
saw blade
Short, blunt-ended, wide-bladed saw blade
Description:
Short, blunt-ended, wide-bladed saw blade
Item type:
saw blade
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
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
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
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
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)
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 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
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
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
Stanley #28 transitional bench plane
Description:
Bench Plane. Wooden body with steel fittings.
Item type:
bench plane
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Steel combination square with level, Bate Manufacturing Co.
Description:
level or square is painted black. tube of water is green. 12" calibration on rule
Date:
20th C.
Item type:
level / square
Coopers' curved bowl adze
Description:
adze with wooden handle. iron head- very rusty. wrought steel with original wooden handle. cutting radius 3 5/8"
Item type:
adze
Steel outside calipers
Description:
initialed- B.W. excellent form external callipers
Date:
c. 189
Item type:
calipers
Corinthian column capital
Description:
Corinthian column capital, other of pair to be used in exhibit wood carving See Bldg. Records Database #3039
Item type:
capital, composite wood carving
Round, wooden inkstand
Description:
Round inkstand that has painted edges and four quill holders with glass inkwell.
Item type:
inkstand
World War I officers' picture
Description:
Wooden frame with circular photograph. Brown paper affixed to back of frame has "70590" pencilled on it.
Item type:
framed photograph
Tin sand shaker
Description:
Tin, affixed paper describes sand shaker. Tin is painted black.
Item type:
sand shaker
Engraved silver plate used to print the certificates of membership for Carpenters' Company members.
Description:
Engraved silver plate used to print the certificates of membership for Carpenters’ Company members. The print is engraved with a classical pictorial image and ornate lettering. The lettering says, "This is to certify that _____ has been admitted a…
Item type:
engraved silver plate
Copper plate
Description:
Copper plate with attached Wooden Block. Upper portion of plate is broken off at angles in both top corners. Plate has raised letters.
Item type:
copper plate
Small, thick wooden block with copper plate for printing
Description:
Wooden Printing block; attached to the block is a copper plate with raised lettering- apparently used for printing a book, because "38" is printed at the top. 1 of 5.
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate with raised letters, which is attached to wooden block
Description:
copper plate-see "markings"
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate with raised letters, which is attached to wooden block
Description:
1 of 5 copper plates copper worn down at top of page.
Item type:
copper plate
Copper plate with raised letters, which is attached to wooden block
Description:
Copper plate attached to wooden block--copper stops abruptly below Betts' name and wood is exposed.
Item type:
wooden block with copper plate used for printing
Three copper printing plates nailed to wooden blocks.
Description:
Three copper printing plates, all attached to wooden blocks. Used for printing.
Date:
unknown
Item type:
printing plates
Copper plate with photographic image nailed to a wooden block
Description:
Copper and Wood Printng Block. Photographic image portrays interior east view of Carpenters' Hall, with doorway, pillar and chairs. The copper plate is scratched and worn.
Item type:
copper plate
Engraved copper plate
Description:
Copper plate features image of Plate # IV in Carpenters' Company 1786 Rule Book- "Framed Wall with Studding"
Item type:
engraved copper plate
Copper plate engraved with images of Plate #XI in Carpenters' Company 1786 Rule Book, "Window Shutters."
Description:
Copper plate engraved with images of Plate #XI in Carpenters’ Company 1786 Rule Book, “Window Shutters.” Two images on the one copper plate. back of plate appears to have ink residue.
Item type:
copper plate
Metal scraper with wooden handle and wooden cylindrical part on which to rest
Description:
Rectangular metal scraper and wooden cylindrical part on which to rest. The handle and rest are painted maroon. Cabinet or pattern-maker's scraper.
Date:
20th C.
Item type:
metal scraper
Decorative carved wood piece, with fleur-de-lis in the center
Description:
Carved wood piece, probably from Corinthian capital on first columns installed in Hall (see Bldg. Records Database, #3039)
Item type:
carved wood piece