| 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: |
| Christopher Prince Drew Tools |
| | Status | Location |
| Historic Maritime III (1800-1840): Boomtown Years & the Dawn of the Industrial |
| Revolution |
| Shipwright's and Mariner's Tools |
| 41302T10 | Caulking iron | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, 6 1/4" long, 2 1/4" wide, signed "H Reed". |
| H. Reed is listed in DATM (1999) with no location or date. The following information is from Andrew Pollock: "See page 6 of |
| the C. DREW reprint catalogue No. 34, for a listing of H. REED caulking irons. These were actually made by C. DREW & |
| CO. for clients who wanted to pay less than what C. DREW irons would cost, and who were willing to accept somewhat lower |
| Historic Maritime IV (1840-1865): The Early Industrial Revolution |
| Augers |
| 111002T1 | Auger | bio | DTM |
| Forged iron and steel, wood handle, 20 1/2" long, 2" diameter, 16" handle, signed "8 C. Drew & Co. Kingston". |
| Cooper's Tools |
| 81801T13 | Cooper's hammer | bio | photo | DTM |
| Cast steel with wood handle, 4 5/8" long head, 1 5/8" long groove, signed "C. Drew & Co. Cast Steel". |
| This is a rare Drew tool, the only Drew cooper's hammer seen by the curator in 30 years. |
| Drew Lot |
| 41203T2 | Lot of hand tools (21) | bio | photo | DTM |
| Forged and/or drop forged steel, all signed. |
| This collection of mid-20th century C. Drew tools indicates that Drew branched out to produce a wide variety of common |
| hand tools ranging from screwdrivers and wrenches to hand chisels. They are more well known for their caulking irons, cat's |
| paws, trunk chisels and cold chisels. The two chisels, screwdriver and wrench are the only Drew produced tools of this |
| common type ever seen at Liberty Tool Co. Their production, unlike that of cat's paws, must have been extremely limited. |
| These tools came from a Kingston, MA, workshop just down the street from the old Drew factory location and were all stored |
| together in one metal box. A number of Goldblatt tools and one Osborne brick chuck were also in this hoard. |
| 41203T2G | Brick chisel | DTM |
| Forged steel, 6 7/8" long, 2 7/8" wide, signed "C. Drew & Co.". |
| 41203T2F | Cat's paw | DTM |
| Forged steel, 10 1/2" long, signed "C. Drew CAT'S PAW - 277". |
| 41203T2J | Cold chisels and punches (12) | photo | DTM |
| Forged steel, from 4 1/2" to 8 1/4" long, signed "C. Drew & Co.". |
| 41203T2D | Machinist's pry bar | DTM |
| Forged steel, 15 1/2" long, signed "C. Drew & Co. No 75". |
| 41203T2H | Open ended wrench | DTM |
| Forged steel, 3/4", signed "<-- 3/4 C. Drew & Co. 3/4 -->". |
| 41203T2A | Pry bar | DTM |
| Forged steel, 15 1/4" long, signed "C. Drew and Company". |
| 41203T2I | Screwdriver | DTM |
| Forged steel, 9" long, signed "C. Drew & Co.". |
| 41203T2B | Small wrecking bar | DTM |
| Forged steel, 12" long, signed "Drew No. 12". |
| 41203T2C | Wood chisels (2) | DTM |
| Forged steel, 1/2" wide and 1 1/2" wide, signed "C. Drew & Co.". |
| These have a yellow plastic handle ca. 1960. |
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