| Items available for Education Loans from The Davistown | 19-May- |
| Tools |
| Tool handle | 22311T3 |
| signed "FRAY'S. PAT. AUG.7.83." |
| The following tools are stored in the handle: straight chisel, curved chisel, scribe, small |
| screwdriver, medium screwdriver, large screwdriver, awl, and tack remover. This patent is online |
| at: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=1OpMAAAAEBAJ&dq=fray+august+7+1883. Part |
| of the Robert Sullivan Collection donation. |
| Trowel | 30911T9 |
| 6" long, 2 1/2" x 1 1/2" blade |
| signed "DDBCON" |
| The signature is hard to read. This may be a plasterers' trowel. |
| Trowel | 30911T10 |
| 9" long, 5" x 1 1/2" blade |
| signed "W. Germany" "83" and "WAG___" "KONSTAN___" possible owner's marks |
| The signatures are partly obscured. This may be a plasterers' trowel and is probably made from |
| German steel. |
| Trowel | 3312T4 |
| 10" long, 3 5/8" wide blade |
| signed "I.REED" "CAST STEEL" |
| It is unusual to encounter a mason's trowel made from cast steel. Courtesy of Liberty Tool Co. |
| Unfinished tool | 10815T2 |
| 9" long, 1 1/4" wide, 1" thick |
| unsigned |
| This crudely fashioned tool appears to have been used as a froe from the hammer marks and |
| thin leading edge. |
| Unidentified tool | 102512T14 |
| 8" long, 2 1/2" wide |
| signed "W. GILPIN" "WEDGES MILLS" "WARRENTED" |
| DATM reports a tool made by W. Gilfin Wedge Mills (Nelson 1999, 314). It was a business in |
| England: "Wedges Mill is a hamlet in the south-west corner of the Urban District [of Cannock] |
| dating from the foundation of William Gilpin's edge-tool works in 1790." |
| (http://www.clickityworld.co.uk/cannock/localhistory/tabid/161/Default.aspx). Courtesy of Liberty |
| Tool Co. |
| Wagon jack | 2713T4 |
| 28" tall, 18" long handle, 5" x 12" base |
| unsigned |
| Wagon jack | 22512T3 |
| 30" high, 14" by 5" wide base |
| unsigned |
| This is a nice complete example of a wagon jack. Courtesy of Liberty Tool Co. |
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