The Davistown Museum

Center for the Study of Early Tools

Scattered throughout The Davistown Museum are tools by important manufacturers who are also the subject of

information files compiled by the museum. This is a listing of our holdings for:

Joseph Fuller

Status

Location

Historic Maritime II (1720-1800): The Second Colonial Dominion & the Early Republic

Woodworking: Planes

31102T1

Double beading plane

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BDTM

MHC-E

Wood (maple), 10" long, 1 3/16" wide cutting blade, signed "JO. FULLER PROVIDENCE".

This plane was made by Joseph Fuller of Providence, RI (Pollack 2001). It is one of the most important planes in the Museum collection and a

classic example of the 18th century florescence of planemakers in southern New England.

Historic Maritime III (1800-1840): Boomtown Years & the Dawn of the Industrial

Revolution

Woodworking: Planes

72002T1

Molding plane

LPC

MHC-D

Wood (beech) with steel blade, 9 1/2" long, 1 7/16" wide, signed "JO FULLER PROVIDENCE" with the imprint "D-2", 1805 - 1808.

This is a fine example of a complex beading plane by one of colonial America's most important planemakers. DATM (Nelson 1999) lists

Fuller as working 1773 - 1808. Pollack (2001) notes "In later years when he adopted the standard 9 1/2 length, his chamfers became rounded

and the fluting disappeared. The wood he used evolved from yellow birch to beech with a few maple examples, and his wedge profiles became

relieved after his early period then rounded." This is a crisp clear example of one of his last planes.

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