| Items available for Education Loans from The Davistown | 19-May- |
| Tools |
| Expansion drill | 3312T11 |
| 10 1/2" long, bit from 7/8" to 1 3/4" |
| signed "THE CLARK, BROWN MODEL" "MADE BY R.H.BROWN & CO." |
| DATM (Nelson 1999, 119) lists R. H. Brown & Co. as making machinist tools, bits, braces, and |
| screwdrivers in Westville, CT, from 1873 to 1905. Courtesy of Liberty Tool Co. |
| Gentleman's brace star bit | 61617T3 |
| 5" long, 9/16" diameter |
| signed "D. FLATHER & SONS SHEFFIELD" |
| Hand drill | 22411T17 |
| 9" long |
| unsigned |
| This is an Archimedean style drill with a fine drill holder end. |
| Snail countersink bit | 8912T7 |
| 3 3/8" long, 5/16" wide |
| signed "HAWESWORTH CAST STEEL" |
| This bit has a square shank for a bit brace. DATM (Nelson 1999) does not list any Hawesworths. |
| Twist drill bit | 31811T9 |
| 8" long, 1" diameter |
| unsigned |
| It is used with a brace. |
| Twist drill index | 41617T5 |
| 6 1/16" diameter, 5 1/2" tall |
| signed "NEW PROCESS TWIST DRILL CO. TAUNTON MASS" |
| SubCategor | Woodworking: Edge Tools |
| Adz | 3312T13 |
| 8" long, 1 3/4" wide blade |
| unsigned |
| This commonplace contemporary tool was purchased in a Nairobi, Kenya flea market in 2011 |
| and donated to the museum by Judith Bradshaw Brown. It's curved handle form is from natural |
| tree growth. It is notable in that the design of this adz is a perpetuation of the now obsolete |
| model of socket hole edge tools, which characterized tool forms during the European Bronze |
| Age. See "Steel and Toolmaking Strategies and Techniques Before 1870" (Brack 2008, 15) for |
| commentary on the modern design of the shaft hole ax, which first appeared in the toolkits of |
| Sumerians c. 3000 BC. Also see Goodman (1964). |
| Box scraper | 111116T2 |
| 10" long, 3 1/8" wide, 1 3/8" tall |
| unsigned |
| | 75 |