| Davistown Museum Inventory of Tools - Industrial Revolution - | Measuring Tools |
| Machinists | Status | Location |
| | 111001T5 | Rule | DTM |
| Cast steel, 12" long, marked "Tool Co" with a star and also marked "Spring Steel". |
| The star is the signature of the Star Tool Co. DATM (1999) lists Star Tool Co. in Middletown, CT, 1867-1883 with another |
| location in Providence, Rhode Island (1870-71). It manufactured bevels, levels, marking gauges and squares. |
| | 31808SLP19 | Sliding T bevel | DTM |
| Steel blade, brass trim, and rosewood handle, 6" long, 4 1/2" long handle, signed "MADE IN U.S.A.". |
| | 31808SLP18 | Sliding T bevel | bio | DTM |
| Steel blade, brass trim, and laquered rosewood handle, 10" long, 6 5/8" long handle, signed "STANLEY" "RULE & LEVEL Co" |
| "NEW BRITAIN. CONN" "U.S.A." and "PAT. 9-6-04". |
| | TJR2203 | Square | DTM |
| Cast iron or steel, 12" x 8", illegible mark. |
| | 11301T3 | Square | DTM |
| Steel, 15 5/8" long, 1 7/8" wide with a 7 1/2" arm extended to 8 1/4" wide at blade joint, signed "J B Jopson". |
| No Jopson is listed in DATM (1999). Could this be an owner's mark? |
| | 21201T12 | Surface gauge | bio | photo | DTM |
| Steel, 1 1/2" long, 1 9/16" wide, 1 3/8" high, signed "V Oby". |
| Veikko Arne Oby (b. Worcester, MA 1916, d. 2/25, 2000), of Finnish descent, worked in Whitinsville, MA, and the Watertown |
| Arsenal. This satin steel surface gauge, though not signed by its manufacturer, is similar to L.S. Starrett Toolmaker's |
| surface gauge model 56A with 4" spindles. A contemporary L.S. Starrett catalog indicates this tool "is used in layout work for |
| scribing lines on vertical or horizontal surfaces. A groove in the base adapts it for use on cylindrical as well as flat |
| surfaces." This exquisite tool is a late example of the florescence of the classic period of American machinist tools and is |
| indicative of a proud machinist's careful use of a finely crafted Starrett tool or his meticulous reproduction of the same tool - |
| - a possibility since Starrett surface gauges are rarely unsigned. Every hand tool has its own inscrutable history of |
| | 41203T4 | Surface gauge | photo | LPC |
| Steel, 4 1/8" long arm with a 1 7/16" wide by 2 3/8" long bar, signed "J. Stevens A & T Co" "Chicopee Falls Mass USA". |
| A classic example of the exquisite workmanship of the classic period of American machinist tools. |
| | 111900T3 | Surface gauge | DTM |
| Steel, 2 1/8" x 1 7/16" base, 4 3/8" arm, unsigned. |
| An essential component of the tool kit of the tool and die maker, constructor of the machines that then made other tools. |
| | 041505T33 | T square | photo | DTM |
| Steel and brass, 7 1/2" long, 3 1/2" wide, signed "C. EGGE". |
| Maker C. Egge was a Boston toolmaker and inventor of die engineering equipment, ca. 1880s. He is not listed in DATM |
| (1999). This tool was purchased in Worcester, MA, by Liberty Tool Co. in March, 2005, from a descendent of one of his |
| customers for die engineering equipment (C. D. Evan Co, Allston, MA) who fondly recalled the man who made this one-of-a- |
| | 101701T7 | Tap drill gauge | DTM |
| Cast steel, 4 1/2" long, signed "Made by STERLING ELLIOTT NEWTON, MASS, USA", 1890 - 1910. |
| No such company is listed in DATM (1999). The editor was born in Newton, MA, and after 31 years in the tool business, had |
| never seen this marking before. A very rare signature. The sizes 2 - 24 appear hand stamped, they are slightly off center. |
| | 41302T5 | Tapered gauge | bio | DTM |
| Steel, 6 1/8" long, 7/16" wide, signed "N. 270 The L. S. Starrett Co. Athol, Mass USA". |
| Calibrated in millimeters and in hundredths of an inch. The maximum thickness this gauge measures is 0.150 inches. DATM |
| (1999) pg. 751 contains historical information on L. S. Starrett Co. |
| | 914108T2 | Thickness gauge | DTM |
| Steel, 6 1/2" long, 6" long blades, signed "EINAR HANSON" "-TOOLS-" "WORCHESTER. MASS" and owner's mark "F. W. |
| PAGE". |
| Folded inside are 8 blades marked: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 18. |
| | 41801T15 | Tool and die maker's jig | DTM |
| Steel, unsigned. |
| Was this owner made? It was acquired along with the marking gauge (41801T10). |
| | 101701T15 | Tool and diemaker's square | DTM |
| Steel, 1 1/2" long, signed "Sawyer Tool Mfg Co Fitchburg Mass USA Hand", between 1894 - 1912. |
| This exquisite tool was made before this company moved to Ashburnham, MA in 1912. They later became the Almond Mfg. |
| Co. in 1915. DATM (1999) pg. 692. This tool illustrates the beauty and durability of hardened case steel. |
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