Browse Items (698 total)
- Item Type: Object
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
Wall sconce
Description:
Tin wall sconce with mirrored reflectors and a single scrolled arm candle holder.
Date:
late 18th C.
Item type:
sconce
Wall sconce
Description:
Tin wall sconce with mirrored reflectors and a single scrolled arm candle holder.
Date:
late 18th C.
Item type:
sconce
Victorian umbrella stand
Description:
Mahogany Victorian umbrella stand with cast iron well dish
Date:
c. 1860
Item type:
umbrella stand
Very long narrow, wide-bladed saw blade
Description:
Saw blade. Finger prints and rust visible on saw blade.
Item type:
saw blade
Upholstered rocking chair
Description:
Rocking chair. Naugahyde upholstered and cushioned back and arms, smooth studs. Base is stationary, chair rocks with curved planks and inner metal springs. Small wheels on forward "legs."
Item type:
Rocking chair
Unvarnished brown wood gavel
Description:
Head gavel that is split and is bound by wire
Date:
unknown
Item type:
gavel
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
Typed paragraph and business card enclosed in a black frame with gold around the inside edges.
Description:
Typed statement: "This collection, including the set of planes, was used by David Walker, deceased. Mr. Walker was a carpenter and builder, having his business in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. most of these tools were made in Scotland and…
Item type:
framed statement
Two-part walking stick
Description:
Two-part walking stick with corrugations along its length. Smooth bone handle is imprinted with small circles.
Item type:
walking stick
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
Twist auger drill bits with wide coil section and narrow screw points
Description:
Twist auger drill bits with wide coil section and narrow screw points. Fairly long and made of metal. Screw point. Bits of red paint.
Item type:
twist auger drill bit
Twist auger drill bits with screw point
Description:
Twist auger drill bit: very wide coil section. CCCCP-240b is slighly taller than CCCCP-240a.
Item type:
twist auger drill bit
Twist auger drill bits
Description:
Twist auger drill bits
Item type:
drill bits
Twist auger drill bits
Description:
Twist auger drill bits
Item type:
drill bit
Twist auger drill bits
Description:
Twist auger drill bits; red paint visible on 247a
Item type:
drill bits
Twist auger drill bits
Description:
Twist auger drill bits
Item type:
drill bits
Twist auger drill bits
Description:
Twist auger drill bits
Item type:
twist auger drill bits
Twist auger drill bit.
Description:
Twist auger drill bits
Item type:
twist auger drill bit
Twist auger drill bit with screw point.
Description:
Twist auger drill bit: widths of CCCCP-241a and 241b's coil sections are equal.
Item type:
twist auger drill bit
Twist auger drill bit with screw point
Description:
Twist auger drill bits. Fairly long and made of metal. Screw point.
Item type:
drill bit
Twist auger drill bit with screw point
Description:
Twist auger drill bits. Fairly long and made of metal. Screw point.
Item type:
drill bit
Twist auger drill bit
Description:
Twist auger drill bit
Item type:
drill bit
Tribute to C.Co. certificate
Description:
tribute to C.Co. from Engineering Societies in Delaware Valley for contributions to the development of early America and Philadelphia. Framed.
Date:
1976
Item type:
framed certificate
Triangle-shaped piece of wood or wedge shaped
Description:
Wooden wedge of smooth textured dark wood. long, thin triangle shape with curved corners.
Item type:
wooden wedge
To C.Co. from Philadelphia 76- framed award
Description:
Illuminated resollution handwritten and painted. Probably Strickland Studio in Old Land Title Building.
Date:
1974
Item type:
framed award
Tin sand shaker
Description:
Tin, affixed paper describes sand shaker. Tin is painted black.
Item type:
sand shaker
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
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
Thin metal escutheon
Description:
escutheon; has 7 small holes, 1 large hole, a keyhole and an opening shaped like a rectangle with all four sides curved inward between the two connected metal parts. black plastic printed label saying, "Carpenters' Hall Escutheon taken 1857 off front…
Item type:
escutheon
Thick metal key, hollow
Description:
There are three almost complete circles attached to the end of the key.
Item type:
key
The Upper Ferry Bridge [engraving]
Description:
Engraved by Jacob J. Plocher, after Thomas Birch. Mahogany finished frame. Upper Ferry Bridge
Date:
1812
Item type:
engraving; Upper Ferry Bridge.
The Robert Smith Award to Charles E. Peterson
Description:
Framed award; The Robert Smith Award to Charles E. Peterson
Date:
1982
Item type:
framed award
Swivel armchair
Description:
Wooden swivel armchair, Naugahyde, and metal swivel machiner. Seat and inset back of Naugahyde with studs. chair rests on central axis with hardware for turning and adjusting. Base is four wooden splayed legs.
Date:
1903
Item type:
chair