| Items available for Education Loans from The Davistown | 19-May- |
| Tools |
| Shoe lasting pliers | 3312T1 |
| 8" long |
| signed either "PREETH" or "FREETH" |
| This is a typical curved pliers w/ hammer but cast as one piece. The end is slightly damaged |
| (the tack remover is broken off.) DATM (Nelson 1999) lists a foreign toolmaker named |
| Benjamin Freeth as working 1770 - 1824. Courtesy of Liberty Tool Co. |
| Shoe maker's shoulder stick | 4716T1 |
| 4 3/4" long, 1 1/2" x 1 1/4" wide |
| unsigned |
| Shoemakers' hammer | 31808SLP25 |
| 8" long, 6 7/8" long handle, 3 1/2" long head | photo | photo |
| signed "STEEL" "DROP" "FORGED" "CHAMPION" and on the other side of the head "REX" |
| DATM (Nelson 1999) lists a number of companies named "Champion", several "Champion" |
| marks on tools, and three "REX" marks. However, none of them specifically made cobblers' |
| tools or hammers. |
| Tack puller | 61617T4 |
| 6 5/8" long, 5/8" edge, 1 1/4" diameter |
| unsigned |
| SubCategor | Coopers' Tools |
| Barreling hatchet | 92813T2 |
| 10 3/4" long, 5 1/4" long head, 2" cutting edge | bio |
| signed "ANCHOR PLUMB Forged Steel" |
| This hatchet was made by Fayette R. Plumb, who worked in Philadelphia, PA, from 1888 to |
| 1905. He used the mark "PLUMB" and the Anchor brand. Previously he was associated with |
| Yerkes & Plumb (1870) before buying Yerkes out in 1887. Y & P used the "ANCHOR" mark and |
| he kept on using it. |
| Coopers' bung | 102512T21 |
| 8 1/2" long, 3 1/3" wide |
| unsigned |
| Courtesy of Liberty Tool Co. |
| Coopers' bung hammer | 102512T3 |
| 12" long, 5 3/4" long head |
| signed "LANG & JACOB" and "BOSTON MASS" on the head, on the handle "THE LA |
| PIERRE SAWYER HANDLES" around "GREEN SEAL HANDLES" inside a circle. |
| Lang & Jacobs of Boston, MA, made coopers' tools from 1884 to 1890 (Nelson 1999, 470). The |
| "S" in Jacobs appears to have worn off the hammer head. The LaPierre-Sawyer Handle |
| Company was founded in Jackson, MO, in 1902 and is still in business. |
| (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=19850417&id=BcwfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jtgE |
| AAAAIBAJ&pg=1398,5338142). Courtesy of Liberty Tool Co. |
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