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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
Steel auger bit
Description:
Steel auger bit catalog #10 by J. Pugh, Philadelphia
Author:
J. Pugh
Item type:
auger bit
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
Carved wooden ornament
Description:
Decorative dark wood ornament with large flower carved in the center. Medallion. (See Bldg. Records database #3039)
Item type:
carved ornament
Plow plane cutter
Description:
Plow plane. Seems to be made of metal.
Item type:
plow plane cutter
Medal w/ Photograph of Carpenters’ Hall and ribbon.
Description:
Medal with Ribbon. The photograph is set inside circular metal piece attached to pin and gold and white ribbon which says "CARPENTERS' COMPANY PHILADELPHIA 1724." There is a straigh pin on the reverse side of the medal.
Item type:
medal with ribbon (pin back picture and ribbon
Old photo of Carpenters’ Hall set into metal circle. 18 pins and ribbons
Description:
Eighteen commemorative medals. Each has a photo that is attached to a pin and a blue and gold ribbon which says "Carpenters' Company Philadelphia 1724." 1 of the 18 has the accession number CC231 on it.
Item type:
18 pins/ ribbons
14 commemorative medals gold bar pin which says "Philadelphia,"
Description:
Commemorative Medals. Attached to each is a bar pin with a blue and gold ribbon. Additionally there is the lettering "Carpenters' Company 1724" and a gold medal which has the raised images of 4 compasses and lettering which says "Carpenters' Company…
Author:
Made at The Whitebar and Hoag Company.
Item type:
commemorative medals
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 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 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
Auger drill bits
Description:
Auger drill bits with coil areas that culminate in point: on (a): "12" "W" circle in a square on (b): "Syracuse" "8" on (c): "W" "S.T. Co."
Item type:
auger drill bits
Admission form for Carpenters' Co. Drawing School ticket
Description:
Ticket numbered "109." Seems also to be some kind of admission form.
Item type:
admission form or ticket
Twist auger drill bit.
Description:
Twist auger drill bits
Item type:
twist auger drill bit
Twist auger drill bits
Description:
Twist auger drill bits
Item type:
twist auger drill bits
Twist auger drill bits
Description:
Twist auger drill bits
Item type:
drill bits