Items available for Education Loans from The Davistown

19-May-

Tools

Silversmiths' hammer

121412T8

11" long, 4 1/2" long head, 1 1/4" wide faces

signed "nan mccurrach" owner's mark in script engraved into the wooden handle

Silversmiths' hammer

121412T7

11 3/4" long, 4 3/4" long head, 1 3/8" wide faces

signed "nan mccurrach" owner's mark in script engraved into the wooden handle

Silversmiths' hammer

121412T6

12 1/4" long, 4 3/4" long head, 1 1/4" wide faces

signed "nan mccurrach" owner's mark in script engraved into the wooden handle

Silversmiths' hammer head

123012T3

4 1/2" long, 3/4" wide, 3/4" face

signed "WARNER & NOBLE CAST STEEL"

This company was a hammer-making partnership of William M. Noble and Marvin R. Warner of

Middletown, CT, 1877 to 1884. See this website for information on earlier and later partners

(http://www.angelfire.com/wy/mttools/warnernoble.htm).

SubCategor

Woodworking: Axes and Hatchets

Broad ax head

81713T11

7 1/8" edge, 6" long, 1" wide

signed "OUR BEST HAND MADE AXE SNOW & NEALLEY BANGOR, MAINE U.S.A."

Cambodian hatchet

050112T1

5 1/2" long, 3 5/16" wide cutting edge

unsigned

It is made from one piece of cast steel with surface filing throughout. The cutting edge is

heavily filed. This tool was purchased by Brett Ciccotelli at the Krakor, Cambodia, village tool

market in the winter of 2012 and represents state of the art edge tool manufacturing

capabilities of a third world country in 2010-12. The tool is nicely made and looks like it would

Connecticut Pattern Felling Ax

92020T5

28" long, 6 1/4" long head, 5" edge

photo

signed "KNOT KUTTER WARRANTED"; "MANN EDGE TOOL CO. LEWISTOWN PA USA"

From the collection of Roger Majorowicz.

Double bit ax

12813T2

32" long, 29" long handle, 9 3/4" long head, 5" wide edges

signed "32 PLUMB"

Fayette R. Plumb worked from 1887 to 1964 in Philadephia, PA making axes and many other

types of edge tools.

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