| Items available for Education Loans from The Davistown | 19-May- |
| Tools |
| Curriers' fleshing knife | 121412T13 |
| 25 1/4" long, 15" cutting edge, 5 1/2" long handles |
| signed "SNOW & NEALLEY BANGOR - MAINE" |
| Curriers' shave | 31808SLP15 |
| 15 1/2" long, 13" curved blade | photo | photo |
| unsigned |
| Leather belt punch pliers | 111116T10 |
| 8" long, 3 1/2" wide, 1/4" wide |
| signed "PATENT SEPT.1.1868" |
| Leatherworkers' smoothing tool | 102512T16 |
| 7 3/4" long, 7/8" x 7/8" |
| unsigned |
| Courtesy of Liberty Tool Co. |
| Pliers | 22612T2 |
| 9" long |
| signed "EYELET TOOL CO" on one side of the jaws and "E.T.CO BOSTON" on both sides at |
| the pivot point |
| This specialized set of pliers is used to cut leather for 1/4" strips. DATM (Nelson 1999, 268) |
| indicates this company worked from 1858 to 1920. However, this tool looks newer, perhaps |
| from the 1940s or 50s. One cutting edge is broken. |
| Pricking wheel | 10815T3 |
| 6" long, 1" diameter, 1 1/4" wide |
| unsigned |
| Round leather punch | 8912T5 |
| 4 3/4" long, 7/8" wide, 7/16" diameter hole |
| signed "THOMAS ADAMS 12" |
| DATM lists a T. Adams of Philadelphia that made leather tools (Nelson 1999, 14). |
| Shoe lasting pliers | 3312T2 |
| 9" long |
| signed "UNION PATENTED OCT 25, 1887" "WHITCHER 3" |
| There is a crisscross pattern on the hammer face. Hammer pressed fit into body. Frank Whitcher |
| of Boston, MA patented the lasting pinchers, which were made by Union Shoe Machinery |
| Company of Lynn, MA, 1873 - 1913. His patent may be viewed at: |
| http://www.google.com/patents?id=yDhOAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=OCT+25,+1887+whitcher& |
| hl=en&sa=X&ei=_mqpT- |
| 2qDYPH6AG0qtGzBA&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=OCT%2025%2C%201887%20whi |
| tcher&f=false. Courtesy of Liberty Tool Co. |
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