| Items available for Education Loans from The Davistown Museum | 20-Nov-03 |
| Tools | List still under construction |
| Beading plane | 91303T4 |
| 9 1/2" long, 1" bead |
| unsigned |
| This is a generic run of the mill hand plane typical of a 19th century tool box. The slight beading |
| suggests an early to mid-19th century date. |
| Beading plane | 42602T3 |
| 9 3/8" long, 3/8" wide bead |
| signed "Cox & Luckman" on plane, blade has an obscured mark "____TH" |
| A typical imported English made plane of the 19th century. |
| Moulding plane | 33002T1L |
| 10 1/2" long, 11/16" wide concave cutter |
| unsigned |
| A typical generic homemade moulding plane. |
| Rabbet plane | 30202T4 |
| 17 3/8" long, 7/8" wide blade | photo |
| signed "J.R. Tolman Hanover Mass" |
| DATM (1999) indicates Tolman was born in 1787 and was making planes in S. Scituate, MA, by the |
| 1820s. Tolman made planes specifically for the shipbuilding industries and was one of New England's |
| most prolific planemakers during this era. |
| Category | Historic Maritime IV (1840-1865): The Early Industrial Revolution |
| SubCategory | Planes not made in Maine |
| Bench plane | 32802T11 |
| 7 3/4" long, 2 9/16" wide, 2" wide cast steel blade | photo | photo |
| blade signed "ROBTSORBY", plane unmarked |
| This plane is typical of the run of the mill smoothing planes of the mid 19th century; it might be found in |
| any carpenter's tool kit. |
| Category | The Industrial Revolution (1865f.): Classic Period of American Machinist's Tools |
| SubCategory | Measuring Tools | L.S. Starrett Co. |
| Tapered gauge | 41302T5 |
| 6 1/8" long, 7/16" wide | bio |
| signed "N. 270 The L. S. Starrett Co. Athol, Mass USA" |
| Calibrated in millimeters and in hundredths of an inch. The maximum thickness this gauge measures is |
| 0.150 inches. DATM (1999) pg. 751 contains historical information on L. S. Starrett Co. |
| Category | The Industrial Revolution (1865f.): Other Factory Made Tools |
| SubCategory | Agricultural Implements |
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