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Boulton & Paul, 1898 CATALOGUE
Ref: CHT9019
Boulton & Paul was one of Britain's largest manufacturers of greenhouses and conservatories and this volume gives the complete range of its buildings for export to the colonies: churches, schools, stables, gymnasia, golf club houses, racing grandstands, band stands, hunting lodges plus smaller buildings such as kennels and lean-to-houses for bears and kangaroos - all portable. This reprint is a snapshot of Victorian England and its manufacturing as well as a gold mine of ideas for the design of all sorts of garden furniture, trellises, gates, fences and greenhouses and small buildings in wood, with 1000s of engravings.
Price: £15.95
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BRISTOL WAGON & CARRIAGE CATALOGUE 1900
Ref: CHT0019
This shows the commercial horse-drawn vehicles made by The Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works Co. Limited, Lawrence Hill Works, Bristol. As well as a variety of farm carts and wagons it includes fishmonger's, potato merchant's, fruiterer's and greengrocer's carts (two-wheel). Vans for laundry work; vans, drays, carts and floats for brewers, wine merchants, bakers, confectioners, grocers and drapers. Vans, trolleys and carts for cabinet makers, haulers, builders and furniture removers. Patented tip wagons, ambulance vans, street-sweeping machines and various water carts, snow ploughs and gas-tar carts. Vehicles for export and the colonial trade with iron wheels. Wheel barrows and every kind of hand cart. All with prices.
Price: £9.50
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Edward Elwell Ltd., CATALOGUE OF TOOLS
Ref: CHT9020
A facsimile of a Victorian (1870) catalogue of this most important manufacturer of every imaginable forged tool or object: bill hooks, axes, adzes, chisels, anchors, eel spears, locomotive firing shovels, horseshoes and many more. The names of some of the tools indicate the world-wide custom the firm had: Russian miners hammers, Spanish bowl adzes, Australian half-bright chipping hoe, New Zealand sinking pick, Bechuana grubbing hoes, Peruvian hedge bill, . Introduction by Richard Filmer. "This superbly reproduced illustrated catalogue.....The original document is very rare." The Black Countryman" magazine.
Price: £17.50
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THE HANDSAW CATALOGUE COLLECTION (1910 - 1919)
Ref: CHT0075
Reprint of the handsaw sections of the main catalogues of the following major makers: Spear & Jackson (Sheffield) 1915, Disston (Philadelphia) 1918, Atkins (Indianapolis) 1919, Simonds (Massachusetts) 1910.
Price: £12.50
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Harrison, RECORD PLANES AND OTHER TOOLS
Ref: CHT9138
A thoroughly researched account of the history of Record planes from the founding of the original company C & J Hampton in 1898 through the acquisition of the Preston List in the early 1930s to the position of Record Tools in 1998. Accompanying this is a reprint of the complete February 1938 No. 15 Catalogue, now considered the most representative and the peak of the pre-Second World War production. Dates for introduction of each plane after 1938 and various adaptations are all listed in great detail. The author has had full cooperation and approval of the firm in his researches. Illustrations of planes and parts appear throughout the text. Appropriate patent documents are included, also a guide to recent prices realized.
Price: £19.95
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Peter Henderson & Co., TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY FARM TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTS
Ref: CHT9028
Reprint of the 1898 New York supplier of tools and implements, fertilizers, insecticides and other essentials for the garden, farm, greenhouse, lawn, orchard, poultry-yard, stable and household. From a one-horse disc harrow for $21.00 to a 'Eureka' steam cooker for $6.50. Illustrated.
Price: £8.95
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Peck, Stow & Wilcox, 1899 CATALOGUE OF TINSMITHS' TOOLS AND MACHINES
Ref: CHT0023
A reprint of the centennial edition of the then foremost manufacturer of tinsmiths' tools in the world. Every imaginable piece of equipment from formers and stakes to double seamers and wiring machines is listed and illustrated.
Price: £8.95
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Edward Preston & Sons Ltd., 1908-1912 CATALOGUE
Ref: CHT9024
A reprint of an important catalogue of this leading high quality Birmingham tool maker (founded 1825). It lists some 600 rules and 300 levels, planes and other tools and equipment. The company also produced such diverse items as a lawyer's bodkin and a robust sardine can opener. A 26-page introduction by Mark Rees discusses the history, working practices, designs, patent and trade marks of the company.
Price: £15.00
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Sheffield 1787, A DIRECTORY OF SHEFFIELD
Ref: CHT9021
A new reprint of the1787 Directory of Sheffield including the manufacturers in the adjacent villages. In the introduction by Jane Rees she notes that other town directories of this time gave only a general picture of trade and communications with the outside world, whereas this directory includes the marks of various manufacturers such as cutlers, scissors and file smiths, edge tool and sickle manufactures as registered by the Cutlers Company, which often were the only means of identifying makers.
Price: £11.95
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Stanley Rule & Level Co., 1923 CATALOGUE No: 120
Ref: CHT9213
The complete line of rules, levels, planes, spokeshaves, tool cabinets and other tools offered at this time. A listing of Stanley trademarks: 'Stanley', 'Bailey', 'Bed Rock', 'Victor', 'Defiance', 'Odd Jobs', 'Zig Zag', 'Hurwood',
and 'Everlasting'.
Price: £19.50
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Stanley R. & L., THE STANLEY CATALOG COLLECTION Volume I
Ref: CHT9035
This contains a complete reprint of the most important 19th century Stanley catalogues: 1855, 1859, 1867, 1870-71, 1879, 1888 and 1898. The seven catalogues are indexed and bound in one volume.
Price: £16.95
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Stanley Rule & Level Co., THE STANLEY CATALOG COLLECTION Volume II
Ref: CHT9214
Reprints of 1872, 1874 (revised to 1876), 1884, 1887, and 1892 (revised to 1898) plus the Leonard Bailey Catalogs of 1876 and 1883. This volume and Vol I together contain 13 catalogue reprints covering the period 1853 -1898 and making a total of 800 pages.
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VICTORIAN WOODEN MOULDING AND FRAME DESIGNS. The 1910 Morell Catalogue
Ref: CHT0085
A reprint of the illustrated trade list of H. Morell of Neal's Yard in London, a major producer of picture frames, carved items and other mouldings.
Price: £12.95
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W & C Wynn, WYNN PATTERN BOOK c. 1820
Ref: CHT9003
This is a facsimile reprint of a Birmingham Pattern Book with a 20 pp. of illustrated introduction by Jane Rees. It is in the collection of the Essex Peabody Museum in Salem Massachusetts and it is the first time that a pattern book has been reproduced full size (it is a landscape shape). It shows a full range of tools, Birmingham toys, household tools (corkscrews, fire steels, and sugar snips), and Lancashire tools.
Price: £28.50
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