| 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: |
| Joseph Fuller |
| | Status | Location |
| Historic Maritime I (1607-1676): The First Colonial Dominion |
| Planes |
| 31102T1 | Rounding plane | photo | photo | BDTM | MHC-D |
| Wood, 10" long, 5/8" wide, signed "JO. FULLER PROVIDENCE". |
| This plane was made by Joseph Fuller of Providence, RI (information from Pollack, 4th Ed.) It is one of the most important |
| planes in the Museum collection and a classic example of the 18th century florescence of planemakers in southern New |
| Historic Maritime III (1800-1840): Boomtown Years & the Dawn of the Industrial |
| Revolution |
| Planes not made in Maine |
| 72002T1 | Moulding plane | LPC | MHC-D |
| Wood (beech) with steel blade, 9 1/2" long, 1 7/16" wide, signed "JO FULLER PROVIDENCE" with the imprint "D-2", 1805 - |
| A fine example of a complex beading plane by one of colonial America's most important planemakers. DATM (Nelson 1999) |
| lists Fuller as working 1773 - 1808. Pollack (4th Edition) notes "In later years when he adopted the standard 9 1/2 length, his |
| chamfers became rounded and the fluting disappeared. The wood he used evolved from yellow birch to beech with a few |
| maple examples, and his wedge profiles became relieved after his early period then rounded." A crisp clear example of one |
| of his last planes. |
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