| 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 |
| Woodworking: Edge Tools - American Made Cast Steel |
| 102100T26 | Gouge | bio | DTM | MH |
| Cast steel, wood, brass, 9 5/8" long with a 4" long and 3/8" wide blade, signed "Charles Buck CAST STEEL". |
| He is among the most famous of all American edge toolmakers. |
| Historic Maritime IV (1840-1865): The Early Industrial Revolution |
| Woodworking: Edge Tools |
| TCC2007 | Socket chisel | bio | DTM | MH |
| Forged iron and steel, 10 5/8" long without handle, 7/16" wide, signed "Buck Brothers, Millbury, MA". |
| The touchmark 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 steel chisel signals the evolution of the factory system of mass production of hand tools that had evolved by the |
| middle of the 19th century. |
| TCC2009 | Tang chisel | bio | DTM | MH |
| Forged iron and steel, 5" long, 7/8" wide, signed "Buck Brothers Made of American Steel". |
| This is another unusual Buck Brothers' touchmark. |
| Woodworking: Edge Tools - American Made Cast Steel |
| 032203T13 | Framing chisel | bio | photo | DTM | MH |
| Cast steel with a wood handle, 12 1/2" long including a 4" handle, signed "BUCK BROS" "CAST STEEL" with a bucks head touchmark. |
| This is a socket chisel. |
| 31908T20 | Timber framing chisel | photo | photo | DTM | MH |
| Forged iron, cast steel, wood, 16 1/2" long with an 8" long blade, 2" wide, signed "CAST STEEL" and a partially obscured "BL_". |
| The signature is possibly Buck Brothers. |
| Woodworking: Planes |
| 42405T1 | Razee plane | DTM | MH |
| Lignum vitae, cast steel blade, 15 7/8" long, 2 1/8" wide, signed "Buck Bros Warranted Cast Steel" on blade. |
| The handle has been replaced. It is a typical run of the mill Maine owner-made boat shop plane of the mid-19th century. |
| 110404T1 | Smooth plane | photo | photo | LPC | MH |
| Lignum vitae, cast steel blade, 9" long, 2 1/2" wide, 2 1/8" high body, 1 7/8" wide blade, signed "E.R.KING" "MAKER" "E. BOSTON" on |
| nose, "CHARLES BUCK" "CAST STEEL" "WARRANTED" on blade, "MOULSON BROTHERS" "M B" "WARRANTED" "STEEL" on |
| curling iron. |
| This tool was found in a Brookline, MA, private collection in late October of 2004. It also has a faint mark on the other end of the plane: "G. L. |
| D." that might be an owner's mark. It appears to be a plane made during the heyday of the east Boston shipyards. Buck Brothers began |
| making plane blades in Worcester, MA, as early as 1856. They moved to Millbury in 1864. The Buck blade suggests the plane was made after |
| 1856, but probably before the Civil War as the 1850s represent the high point of production of the east Boston shipyards. No E.R. King |
| hallmark is listed in either Pollak's 4th edition or DATM (Nelson 1999). The Davistown Museum solicits further information about this East |
| Boston maker. |
| The Industrial Revolution (1865f.): Other Factory Made Tools |
| Hammers |
| 121412T11 | Caliper chisel | bio | DTM | TT |
| Cast steel, wood (rosewood), 18 1/2" long, 8 3/4" long handle, 1/4" cutting edge, signed "BUCK BROS CAST STEEL". |
| Patternmakers' Tools |
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