| 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: |
| Buck Brothers |
| | Status | Location |
| Historic Maritime III (1800-1840): Boomtown Years & the Dawn of the Industrial |
| Revolution |
| Edge Tools - American Made Cast Steel |
| 102100T26 | Gouge | bio | DTM |
| Wood, brass and cast steel, 9 5/8" long with a 4" long and 3/8" wide blade, signed "Charles Buck CAST STEEL". |
| Historic Maritime IV (1840-1865): The Early Industrial Revolution |
| Edge Tools - American Made Cast Steel |
| 032203T13 | Framing chisel | bio | photo | DTM |
| Cast steel with a wood handle, 12 1/2" long including a 4" handle, signed "BUCK BROS" "CAST STEEL" with a bucks head |
| touchmark. |
| A socket chisel. |
| TCC2007 | Socket chisel | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, 10 5/8" long without handle, 7/16" wide, signed "Buck Brothers, Millbury, MA", ca. 1853. |
| The touch mark on this chisel is probably the early mark of the Buck Brothers.. While Buck tools are ubiquitous, Buck |
| Brothers tools with this mark are very uncommon. This cast steel chisel signals the presence of the factory system and the |
| mass production of hand tools which had evolved by the middle of the 19th century. |
| TCC2009 | Tang chisel | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, 5" long, 7/8" wide, signed "Buck Brothers Made of American Steel". |
| Another unususal Buck Brothers' touch mark. |
| Planes not made in Maine |
| 42405T1 | Razee plane | DTM |
| Lignum vitae and cast steel, 15 7/8" long, 2 1/8" wide, signed "Buck Bros Warranted Cast Steel" on blade. |
| The handle has been replaced. A typical run of the mill Maine owner-made boat shop plane of the mid-19th century. |
| The Industrial Revolution (1865f.): Other Factory Made Tools |
| Edge Tools - American Made Cast Steel |
| 42904T2 | Gouge | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, brass ferrule, wooden handle, 5 3/4" long with additional 5 7/8" handle, 1" wide, signed "BUCK BROS" "CAST |
| STEEL" with a buck touchmark. |
| 71401T20 | Socket chisel | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, wood and brass, 8 3/4" long, 9 1/2" blade, signed "Charles Buck". |
| An excellent example of the craft of one of New England's foremost edge tool makers. |
| Patternmakers' Tools |
| 42904T4B | Cranehead-necked gouge | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, brass ferrule, wooden handle, 12" long including 5 1/4" handle, 1/12" wide, signed "BUCK BROS" with a buck |
| touchmark. |
| Shank needle gouge. |
| 42904T4A | Cranehead-necked gouge | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, brass ferrule, wooden handle, 12 1/2" long including 5 1/4" handle, 11/16" wide, signed "BUCK BROS" with a buck |
| touchmark. |
| The Industrial Revolution (1865f.): Patented and Transitional Planes |
| Planes not made in Maine |
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