| 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: |
| Peter Stubs Tools |
| | Status | Location |
| Historic Maritime III (1800-1840): Boomtown Years & the Dawn of the Industrial |
| Revolution |
| Edge Tools - Imported English Cast Steel |
| TCC1007 | Gouge | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, 7 1/2" long, 3/16" wide blade, signed "P. STUBBS CAST STEEL". |
| Measuring Tools |
| 81101T19 | Adjustable calipers | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, 5", signed "P. S. Stubs". |
| This finely cast caliper is difficult to date - but may be a late 18th century example of his work. Another fine example of the |
| Stubs empire of tool manufacturing. |
| 101701T12 | Calipers | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, 6 5/8" long, signed "P. S. Stubbs". |
| A clear example of an English pattern that was later copied by American companies such as T. Stevens, Chicopee Falls, MA, |
| 1844 - 1903. Also using the same pattern was the Boker Co., which DATM (1999) indicates was a German manufacturer |
| exporting tools in the 19th century (pg. 98). This tool is also marked with numerous stars -- probably an owner's mark. Why |
| did Stevens as well as Boker copy the early English style of adjustable calipers? Did English toolmakers who emigrated |
| from Sheffield bring this prototype with them? |
| Miscellaneous Tools |
| 81101T16 | Draw plate | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, 10 1/8" long, 3 5/8" handle, signed "P. S. Stubs H", ca. 1780 - 1810. |
| An exquisite example of a Stubs tool. |
| 62406T7 | Hand vise | DTM |
| Iron and puddled steel, 6 1/2" long, 2 13/16" wide jaws, 3 3/8" long nut, signed with the characteristic P Stubbs mark. |
| A highly unusual variation of a common hand vise due to an ornate forge welded ram's horn nut. |
| 102800M10 | Hand vise | bio | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, 4 5/" long, 1 1/2" wide jaw, signed "P S Stubs" and by owner "W.F. Blake". |
| Found in machinist's tool box now on display with W. F. Blake tools. |
| TCR1301 | Hand vise | bio | DTM |
| Forged iron or steel, 4" long, signed "STUBS" also signed "K. MAIER". |
| Another example of the fine quality imported tools of the Stubs Company in Lancashire, England. The signature K. Maier is |
| probably an owner's signature. |
| TCR1011 | Hand vise | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, 4 1/2" long, 1 5/16" wide jaw, signed "P. S. STUBBS". |
| Miscellaneous Tools with English Marks |
| 111001T31 | Tin snips | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, 5" long, 1 3/8" cutting blade, signed "P. S. Stubs". |
| Another example of an imported English tool. |
| 10700-T4 | Whitesmith's shears | bio | DTM |
| Forged iron or cast steel, 14 1/2" long with a 3" long cutter, signed "P S STUBS". |
| These small whitesmith shears are fitted with a vertical 5/8" square leg for use in a stake plate. |
| 102100T14 | Whitesmith's shears | bio | DTM |
| Cast steel, 14 1/2" long, 3" cutter, 3" stake extension, signed "P S STUBS". |
| An unusual adaptation of common shears to use in a whitesmith's staking plate. |
| Silversmithing Tools |
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