| 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: |
| Levi Tinkham Collection |
| | Status | Location |
| Ephemera and Documents |
| Documents |
| 30701E3 | Debtor summons to John Tinkum | bio | DTM |
| Paper item floating in glass, 8" wide, 9" high, . |
| 30701E2 | Deed | bio | DTM |
| Paper item floating in glass, 7 1/2" wide, 7 1/2" high, , March 31, 1714. |
| John Tinkcom. |
| 30701E1 | Deed | bio | DTM |
| Paper item floating in glass, 7 1/2" wide, 8 1/2" high, , March 24, 1710. |
| John Tinkcom, Dartmouth, Mass. |
| AHCE14 | Ephraim Timrom deed | bio | LPC | MH |
| handwritten deed, includes signature of William Bradford Jr., dated 1691. |
| 30701E4 | Estate inventory | bio | DTM |
| Paper item floating in glass, 7" wide, 11 3/4" high, , May 6, 1794. |
| John Tinkham, Administrator for the estate of Abagail Tinkham. |
| Historic Maritime III (1800-1840): Boomtown Years & the Dawn of the Industrial |
| Revolution |
| Edge Tools - American Made Cast Steel |
| TCC2005 | Shipwright's slick | bio | photo | DTM |
| Cast steel with wood handle, 14 1/2" long, 3 1/2" wide, 10" handle, signed "WARRANTED CAST STEEL" and "_. TINKHAM". |
| Other than "warranted cast steel," this tool has no manufacturer's touch mark. The slick has an owner's sign (?) "Tinkham" |
| and is part of our collection of Tinkham artifacts and papers, which are on display in the Museum. This slick came from a |
| ship carpenter's tool box discovered in Foxboro, MA, several years ago and was undoubtedly used by one of the Tinkham |
| clan, probably in the shipyards of New Bedford, Fairhaven or Mattapoisset, MA. ca. 1810 - 1850. This slick is similar to |
| signed specimens produced by the prolific Underhill clan of Nashua, NH. |
| Planes not made in Maine |
| TCD1003 | Bench (fore) plane | bio | photo | DTM |
| Wood (birch), 21 1/2" long, faintly signed "Levi Tinkham", ca. 1840. |
| Tinkham lived from 1766 - 1857 and worked in Middleboro, MA. It has a replaced wedge, This plane is typical of the many |
| thousands of generic bench planes that have survived through the 20th century. A gift to The Davistown Museum from Bob |
| Wheeler of Pepperell, MA. |
| The Industrial Revolution (1865f.): Other Factory Made Tools |
| Edge Tools - American Made Cast Steel |
| TTDA3000 | Drawknife | bio | photo | DTM |
| Cast steel and wood, 18" long with a 12 1/2" blade, signed "TINKHAM & CUMMINGS WARRANTED CAST STEEL" with a very |
| unusual eagle and flag touchmark. |
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