A Danish Sabot Axe
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 40 no. 1, March 1987 by David B. Crowe On an international basis, the wooden shoe is typically regarded as a Dutch object. This understanding may be due, perhaps,...
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Fillet Cutting Plane
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 30 no. 1, March 1977 by Ivan C. Risley Several tool collections contain a small “plane-like” item that seems only to confuse the owner as to its purpose. This...
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The Nicholson Family – Joiners and Toolmakers
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 36 No. 2, June 1983 by Ann Wing Francis Nicholson, of Wrentham, Massachusetts, is probably the best known American planemaker. Much information about him has appeared in The Chronicle...
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Pop Corn For Sunday Night Supper
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XVI no. 1, March 1963 by Mary Earle Gould Corn has been credited to the Indians of America. It was a species of grass growing wild and cultivated by...
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The Hasher
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XI no. 4, December 1958 by Laurence A. Johnson Recently I was browsing through several old copies of the Wolcott New York, Lakeshore News, and I ran across an...
Advertising Campaign – 1832
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. II No. 2, November, 1937 by Lawrence B. Romaine In glancing through Fortune Magazine the other day, I marvelled at the remarkable color work in the advertisements, the soft...
Larding and Larding Needles
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XIII No. 3, September 1960 by Mary Earle Gould Thestory of my gift of a set of larding needles is well worth telling. I have my Grandmother Gould’s cookbook...
The Barlow Knife
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XII no. 2, June 1959 by Laurence A. Johnson The success and well-being of the colonist when he came to the new land of America depended a great deal...
Hand Printing Presses of the [Nineteenth] Century
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. III no. 17, October 1948 by Glover A. Snow Not much has been written or published about hand and treadle printing presses of the nineteenth century, altho their introduction...
A Forgotten Sight
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. 39 no. 1, March 1986 by Norton K. Brown This picture of basket merchant Andrew J. Love was made by H. M. Rand and F.J. Taylor in Cambridgeport, Mass....
Nomenclature and Variations of Parts of the Spiral Auger Bit
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. XXI no. 2, June 1968 by Robert H. Carlson The purpose of this article is to identify and describe the different types of Spiral Augers and their components. In...
Spiral Screwdrivers of Decatur, Illinois
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 49, no. 1, March 1996 By Clifford D. Fales The availability of better wood screws and the rise of the factory system in the last quarter of the nineteenth...
Explosion-Proof Phone
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 64, No. 3, September 2011 by Patty MacLeish This telephone, which weighs 44 pounds, was “picked up” by Jim Sellers last December (Figure 1). There is a Bureau of...
Corn Husking Pegs
The following is excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 59 no. 3, September 2006 by Suzanne Fellman Jacob It’s cold; the wind drives down the back of your neck. Your hands are ungloved in order...
The Hawley Collection — The First Ten Years
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. 59 no. 4, December 2006 by Joan Unwin Ken Hawley has been collecting tools and related material for more than fifty years, and, in 1998 with help from the...