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Description: Metal saw set with wooden handle and movable metal part.
Item type: saw set

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Description: metal sconce painted black, with 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder
Date: 1954
Item type: sconce reproduction

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Description: metal sconce painted black with 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder
Date: 1954
Item type: sconce reproduction

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Description: metal sconce reproduction painted black with 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder
Date: 1954
Item type: sconce reproduction

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Description: metal sconce reproduction painted black with 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder
Date: 1954
Item type: sconce reproduction

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Description: Metal sconce reproduction painted black with area for 3-way mirror placed behind candle holder. No mirror has been installed.
Date: 1954
Item type: sconce reproduction

Description: type of all metal scraper marked Butness with ?.
Item type: 1917 scraper

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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

Description: Metal storage box to house old official documents for Carpenters' Company; papers moved to Hollinger box with original deeds that will move to APS. This box kept for historic recognition.
Item type: Metal storage box

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Description: heavy metal tool with long sharp edge in wooden plank case with 3 leather straps
Item type: wood case with metal instrument

Author: Whitney, J. D.
Date: 1854

Author: Bloxam, Charles Loudon
Date: 1872

Author: Lackland, William
Date: 1871

Author: Mansfield, Edward D.
Date: 1851

Author: Wilson, Robert A.
Date: 1855

Author: Griffin, Solomon Bulkley
Date: 1886

Description: George G. Meyers was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1833. Meyers served as a Company's Warden in 1843 as well as three terms on the Managing Committee in the 1840s and 1850s. In 1845, He was listed in the…
Member number: 306
Date elected: 1/1/1833

Author: Gladstone, J. H.
Date: 1872

Author: Eliot, George.
Date: 1873

Author: Eliot, George.
Date: 1873

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Description: Thomas Middleton was a master builder believed to have come to Philadelphia in 1762 from Monmouth County, New Jersey. He signed the articles of The Carpenters' Company in 1770 and died the following year. Written by Roger W. Moss, from…
Member number: 78*
Birth date: 1/1/1716
Date elected: 1/1/1770

Author: Kirk, Ellen Olney
Date: 1884

Description: Benjamin Mifflin was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company by 1770, although no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to provide a date. He was often absent from Philadelphia, and references to his working in northern Delaware…
Member number: 86*
Date elected: 1/1/1770

Description: Master builder and merchant John Mifflin was the son of John Mifflin of Kent County (DE) who married Hannah Taylor in 1747. Elected to The Carpenters' Company well before the date of earliest surviving records, Mifflin was totally inactive in Company…
Birth date: 1/1/1720
Date elected: 1/1/1760

Member number: 88*
Date elected: 1/1/1771

Author: Holmes, Mary J.
Date: 1880

Author: Abbott, John S. C.
Date: 1872

Author: Cooper, J. Fenimore.
Date: 1864

Author: Mitchell, Joseph B.
Date: 1967

Author: Amicis, Edmondo De
Date: 1882

Author: Eliot, George.

Member number: 387a
Date elected: 7/30/1862

Author: Twells, J. H.
Date: 1875

Author: Lindsay, W. Lauder
Date: 1880

Author: Lindsay, W. Lauder
Date: 1880

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Description: Miniature of mortar and stand; The painted black wooden stand is easily disassembled and detached from the mortar. Near the mouth of the mortar, there is a raised area which pictures two branches surrounding the letters "B" and "L" and a saw, a sword…
Author: Benjamin Loxley in 1756
Item type: miniature mortar and stand

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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

Author: Charlesworth, Maria Louisa.
Date: 1879

Author: Richardson, Bemjamin Ward
Date: 1879

Author: Mattocks, Brewster
Date: 1871
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