| Items available for Education Loans from The Davistown | 19-May- |
| Tools |
| Try square | 22311T14 |
| 6" long, 4" wide | bio |
| signed "WINCHESTER" "TRADE MARK" "MADE IN U.S.A." and "9715" |
| Part of the Robert Sullivan Collection donation. |
| Try square | 121112T4 |
| 6" long, 3 1/2" long and 1 1/2" wide handle | bio |
| signed "Disston & Morrs" "Philada Warrented" |
| This square includes a brass sidebar and blade attachment. DATM (Nelson 1999, 227) lists |
| Disston & Morrs as working from 1867 to 1900 as a subdivision of Henry Disston and Sons. Joab |
| Morrs died around 1886. |
| Try square | 3312T14 |
| 4 1/2" long, 3" wide |
| signed "PATENTED JUNE 20 ‘09" with a scratched in owner's mark "JOS" |
| This type of try square was used by a cabinetmaker. Courtesy of Liberty Tool Co. |
| Winged outside calipers | 22411T23 |
| 9" long, 4 1/2" wide when closed |
| signed "J. M. PARKHURST" |
| This appears to be an owner's mark and not a maker's mark. |
| Wire gauge | 22411T28 |
| 5 1/4" long, 1 5/8" wide |
| signed "E. W. SIMMONS" |
| It appears to be hand-stamped. DATM (Nelson 1999) does not list an E. W. Simmons or a |
| Simmons that made wire gauges. |
| Center gauge | 41212T3 |
| 2 1/4" long, 3/4" wide | bio |
| signed "Darling, Brown & Sharpe Providence, R.I." and "P.H. MAY" owner’s mark |
| This machinists' tool bears a rare, early mark. Courtesy of Liberty Tool Co. |
| Scale | 30311T10 |
| 10 1/2" long, 11/16" wide, 1/8" high | bio |
| signed "Brown & Sharpe Mfg Co" "Providence, R.I. U.S.A." and with their trademark LBS |
| Vernier caliper and rule set | 6316T2 |
| 26 3/4" long, 6 1/2" wide, 1 1/2" thick | bio |
| signed "MORSE TWIST DRILL & MACHINE CO. NEW BEDFORD, MASS." "BROWN & |
| SHARPE PROVIDENCE RI USA TEMPERED NO. 4" |
| This boxed set contains a vernier gauge by Morse and a steel ruler by Brown & Sharpe. This |
| set was used in the Morse Twist Drill factory to measure bits. |
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