Browse Items (698 total)
- Item Type: Object
Dark wood gauge
Description:
Dark wood gauge with tiny metal marks for measuring.
Item type:
marking gauge
Dark wood mitre plane with long, thin boat-shaped base. used to smooth the edges of boards or the sides of short boards.
Description:
traces of green paint slashes visible on bottom of base of mitre plane. Beech wood. by H. Chapin, unusual mark on cutter, "Cloverleaf," Reynolds Ban--, Auburn, N.Y.
Item type:
mitre plane
Dark wood molding plane, 1" rabbet cut used to cut offset surfaces rabbeting plane
Description:
top wooden part has rough surface. blade shows signs of rust. beech wood by Sandusky Tool Co., one of the largest and longest-working plane-makers in the U.S. rabbeting plane
Item type:
rabbeting plane, molding 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
Dark wooden foot bench
Description:
Foot bench; four small rectangles are visible on the surface of the base itself, which seem to be part of the base. white paint is visible across the lower side perpendicular to the bench itself. bench is scratched and chipping.
Item type:
foot bench
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
Decorative door plate; metal
Description:
2 of a set of 4 metal door plates. Rectangular metal door plate with repeating floral designs. Three nail holes, one at top, middle and bottom. Gold tint
Date:
unknown
Item type:
Decorative Door Plate
Decorative door plate; metal
Description:
3 of a set of 4 metal door plates. Rectangular metal door plate with repeating floral designs. Three nail holes, one at top, middle and bottom. Painted brown.
Date:
unknown
Item type:
Decorative Door Plate
Decorative door plate; metal
Description:
Rectangular metal door plate with repeating floral designs. Three nail holes, one at top, middle and bottom. Painted Brown. 4 of a set of 4.
Date:
unknown
Item type:
Decorative Door Plate
Doric Temple [photograph]
Description:
Parade photograph of C.Co.- Sept. 15, 1887 model of Doric Temple for Constitutional Centennial. Carved wood frame.
Date:
1887
Item type:
framed photograph
Double-headed wrench, with each "head" facing a different way.
Description:
Double-headed wrench, with each "head" facing a different way.
Item type:
wrench
Draftsman's wooden T-square
Description:
T-square, manufacturer's name illegible
Item type:
T-square
Drill with screwdriver bit
Description:
Archimedean drill with screwdriver bit steel stock with wooden pad and wooden lower grip.
Date:
late 19th C.
Item type:
drill with screwdriver bit
Drill/ screw driver
Description:
Drill with steel stock with wooden pad and wooden lower grip, made at A.H. REID. Patented December 12, 18--.
Item type:
archimediah drill/ screw driver
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
Eight ribbons commemorating CCCCP Bi-centennial
Description:
Blue ribbon with gold lettering sayimg, "BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF PENNSYLVANIA. CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND CO. OF PHILADELPHIA Oct. 24th 1882". Attached to bottom is tassle of wire coil. No accession number is sewn on at present
Date:
1882
Item type:
commemorative ribbons
English oak box
Description:
Oak box with gold hinges and small plaque attached which says "YORK MINSTER FIRE 1984." box is lined with red felt. slightly shiny finish. inside is note which says: YORK MINSTER
Date:
1984 / 1985
Item type:
English oak box
English, George I Silver Tankard- tapering cylindrical body with threaded median bond, hinged dome cover having a high knuckled billet
Description:
four small drawings near the top of the tankard. only an
Date:
1724
Item type:
English silver tankard
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.
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Engraved copper 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
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
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
Facsimile of Declaration of Independence
Description:
contained within: partial letter from Acting Chief of Bureau [name illegible], State Dept., presenting Declaration of Independence to C.Co. at Thos H. Marshall's request. Acknowledgement of receipt of Co. article which was placed in Dept. library.…
Date:
c. 1900
Item type:
Facsimile of Declaration of Independence
Fid
Description:
rope maker's fid. Looks like a wooden stake. Has a rounded knob on one end and comes to a point at the other end. six grooves cut around the middle of the fid.
Date:
unknown
Item type:
fid
Fid, looks like a wooden stake
Description:
Rope maker's fid; Round knob-like piece carved out at the top, with stake tapering to a point at the end
Item type:
fid