| 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: |
| Kenneth Lynch Collection Tools |
| | Status | Location |
| Historic Maritime III (1800-1840): Boomtown Years & the Dawn of the Industrial |
| Revolution |
| Agricultural Implements |
| TKD3000 | Yoke | bio | DTM |
| Wood with forged iron ferrules, 24" long, unsigned. |
| One of the many artifacts that Kenneth Lynch brought back from Europe in his collecting days in the 1930's and 1940's. |
| Miscellaneous Primitives |
| TKD3501 | Carved flower | bio | DTM |
| Wood, 10 1/2" high, 4 1/2" wide, unsigned. |
| European in origin, 17th or 18th century. This flower may have been a pattern, fragment in a casting or may have served a |
| decorative function in an unknown context. Another gem from the collection of Kenneth Lynch, who brought this item from |
| Europe with the numerous tools he imported. |
| TKD3500 | Pattern | bio | DTM |
| Wood, 9 1/2" high, 9 1/4" wide, unsigned. |
| European, 16th or 17th century. Another of the interesting accidental durable remnants in the Kenneth Lynch collection. |
| TKD2001 | Pattern | bio | DTM |
| Brass and wood, 9 1/2" long, 2 1/4" wide, unsigned. |
| TKD2003 | Pattern of Greek warriors in combat | bio | DTM |
| Wood, 11" high, 21" wide, unsigned. |
| This wooden pattern is of two Greek soldiers fighting. It was found at the Lynch foundry in Wilton, CT, but was originally |
| discovered in Europe and brought to America by Lynch while amassing his huge tool collection. Age unknown. |
| The Industrial Revolution (1865f.): Other Factory Made Tools |
| Agricultural Implements |
| TKD3001 | Pitchfork | bio | DTM |
| Forged iron, 26" long, 4 7/8" wide, unsigned. |
| European origin. |
| Axes |
| 12900T7 | Hewing ax | bio | DTM |
| Die cast and drop forged steel, 11 5/8" long, 7 1/2" wide blade, obscured foreign maker's sign and touchmark, ca. 1900 - 1910. |
| An edge tool from the Pyrenees or Alps area of France or Spain that was brought to the US by Kenneth Lynch. |
| Hammers |
| 22601T4 | Armourer's doming hammer | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, 7 3/4" long, 1 1/4" and 1 1/2" diameter peens, signed "MOB" with trademark and marked "40" and "5". |
| MOB is the mark of the French toolmaker's cooperative that manufactured those tools. The exact identity of this hammer |
| can be found in Lynch's catalog of tools in the museum reference area. |
| Quarrying Tools |
| 032103T5 | Miner's pick (?) | bio | photo | DTM |
| Forged iron, 13" long, 3" handle socket, marked "2225". |
| This turn of the century tool has an unusual form and a Kenneth Lynch provenance indicating he collected it in France or |
| Spain in the third half of the 20th century and brought it to this country with the other tools he collected. |
| Silversmithing Tools |
| TKD1302 | Silversmith's doming hammer | bio | photo | DTM |
| Drop forged steel?, 4 1/4" long with a 1" diameter face, marked "24" with an obscure touchmark on the reverse side, ca. |
| 1880-1910. |
| Another specimen from the large tool collection purchased from Kenneth Lynch by the Liberty Tool Co. |
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