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Clarence Blanchard, THE STANLEY LITTLE BIG BOOK FOR RULES AND OTHER STANLEY TOOLS 2007-2008
Ref: CHT9211
The complete guide to Stanley tool values with type information that can help identify many of the more valuable types. The information is up-to-date and reflects the current trends in collecting. A three-category pricing system gives a range of values that reflects the importance of condition when pricing Stanley tools--all in a small book that fits in your pocket and will be there when you need it. Hundreds of actual photos. Many models shown in full-color. Dozens of the more important types described with the features for quick on-the-spot identification. Realistic three-price system establishes actual value range based on condition.
Price: £10.99
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Clarence Blanchard, THE STANLEY LITTLE BIG BOOK 2006. A Comprehensive Pocket Price Guide For Stanley Planes
Ref: CHT0352
The complete guide to Stanley planes with values given in US $s. There is type information that can help identify many of the more valuable planes. The information is up-to-date (2006) and reflects the current trends in collecting. A three-category pricing system gives a range of values that reflects the importance of condition when pricing Stanley planes--all in a small book that fits in your pocket and will be there when you need it. Most models illustrated with actual plane photos and many showing the early-type planes. Dozens of the more important types are described for quick on-the-spot identification. Information is based on recent sales and 30 years of experience in the antique tool world. The author runs the prestigious Fine Tool Journal and also controls the Brown Tool Auctions in the USA.
Price: £9.99
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Clarence Blanchard, WARMAN'S TOOLS FIELD GUIDE
Ref: CHT0354
An American pocket guide to every kind of tool from braces to wrenches including English and European tools where each example has its condition stated as well as price in $s. There are some 2000 listings of tools and the guide is profusely illustrated with colour photographs to help with on-the-spot appraisals. The publisher produces a variety of guides on various topics all under the name 'Warman's', and the name is therefore not specific to tools.
Price: £10.99
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Crestin-Billet, COLLECTIBLE CORKSCREWS
Ref: CHT9322
Covers old and new from the most straightforward pulling devices to incredibly ingenious nineteenth -century inventions. Each photograph is accompanied by a short text, translated from the French, explaining the significance of every item. The chapters are: Introduction; Pocket corkscrews; Simple corkscrews; Mechanical corkscrews; Lever corkscrews; Combination corkscrews; Figurative corkscrews; Bibliography. Superb photographs
Price: £9.95
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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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Kean, A PRICE GUIDE TO ANTIQUE TOOLS. 3rd edition
Ref: CHT9205
This US guide to tools gives a picture of each tool and is an easy guide to value in $s. Illustrations of approximately 1000 different woodworking tools. There are a total of some 12000 prices taken from auctions. There is a new section on internet auctions with an explanation of how they work. Chapters on tools as antiques, wood identification, condition and buying. Over 400 American wooden planemakers are covered.
Price: £12.95
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Tom Lamond, MANUFACTURED AND PATENTED SPOKESHAVES & SIMILAR TOOLS
Ref: CHT9109
Virtually every make is illustrated and discussed, and there are profiles of makers and patentees. 100s of diagrams showing technical information and many advertisements. The definitive study of these tools in the USA, UK and Germany.
Price: £65.00
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Tony Murland, MURLANDS ANTIQUE TOOL VALUE GUIDE 2007/2008
Ref: CHT9122
This is a heavily illustrated compendium of all manner of tools. It begins with a large section on Stanley tools (48pp.) with every type of tool listed and illustrated from the No. 1 plane to the zigzag rule. There follows: The History of Hole Making Tools with a large selection of brace framed braces from Marples and all others. Then tools by: Holtzapffel; Henley Optical; Hobbies; Mathieson; Millers Falls; Norris; Ohio Tool Co; Preston; Record; Sargent; and Spiers. There are sections on 'Tools as Art', The Development of the English Metal Plane, UK Patented Planes, US Patented Planes, The Union Tool Company, Wooden Planes both in the UK and USA with examples of the most desirable name stamps, and various other tool articles. All estimated prices are in £s except for US patented planes and US wooden planes which are in US $s.
Price: £19.95
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Sandor Nagyszalanczy, TOOLS. Rare and Ingenious
Ref: CHT0186
This the second of the author's books on the best of tools showing superb photographs and is a celebration of the world's most amazing tools. Some 375 examples in colour and many drawings displaying the few hundred tools that are the cream from the top collections in the world including the major UK ones. They range from calipers mimicking dancing ballerinas to an elaborately carved breast drill in the shape of violin as well as superb examples of every conceivable type of plane. A wealth of historical detail and technical information is included.
Price: £29.95
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Pascal, COLLECTIBLE HAND TOOLS
Ref: CHT9321
A good translation into English from the French text describing French and other hand tools in detail with brilliant colour photography by the author. Useful descriptions of hand tools applicable to any country of origin. The contents include: Introduction; Farming, Hand tools; Woodworking hand tools; Leatherworking tools; Construction tools: Amazing tools: Index and Bibliography. A useful introduction to the art of collecting. Superb colour illustrations.
Price: £9.95
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Peretz, L'OUTIL et le COMPAGNON: The Tools and the Craftsman.
Ref: CHT0092
A magnificent collection of old French tools, beautifully photographed and printed in colour. Thorough treatment of planes: carved, musical instrument makers', coachmakers', dated ones and planes carved in the shape of shoes, a reclining woman and various fishes and animals. Measuring tools, squares, compasses and plumb bob levels. A variety of anvils and hammers, ceremonial tools and instruments. Axes, hatchets and adzes for many trades, tool boxes, saws and braces. Many of the tools are decorated and dated.
Price: £59.00
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Jane and Mark Rees, TOOLS: A Guide For Collectors. 2nd edition
Ref: CHT0074
New material on the metal plane and American tools with an additional 16 pages of text. All price guides updated and all text reviewed. The first guide of its kind to be published on British tools. All types of tools listed fewer than 80 categories. Advice on the why and how of collecting, buying and selling, cleaning, and presentation. Materials used in the making of tools, makers and trademarks, patents and registered designs. Above all, a wealth of fine illustrations, backed up by prices realized at auction and from other sources. An exercise in pricing is shown in the tables the authors give for pricing wooden planes. Collecting tips appear throughout. Hitherto unpublished information is given here. Something for every one from the wooden plane collector to those fancying piano adjusters' tools.
Price: £15.95
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Erwin L Schaffer & Don McConnell, HAND-SAW MAKERS OF BRITAIN
Ref: CHT0072
This is a check list of English and Scottish hand-saw maker containing some 1500 names and addresses and dates including no less than 18 Tyzacks. There are also 81 pages of saw-makers' advertisements.
Price: £13.95
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Jeffrey L. Rodengen, THE LEGEND OF STANLEY, 150 Years of the Stanley Works
Ref: CHT9018
A thorough history of the company and its products through all its permutations and amalgamations, from Frederick Stanley's 1823 beginnings and the forming of the Stanley Works in 1852 through to the 1990s. Every aspect of the business is discussed. The last chapter is on the phenomenon of the Stanley collector. Profusely illustrated, showing the vast array of tools manufactured originally by Stanley and also the companies it acquired.
Price: £29.95
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R. A. Salaman, DICTIONARY OF LEATHER-WORKING TOOLS, 1700 - 1950
Ref: CHT9016
Over 1100 tools are illustrated and discussed under various trades: bookbinder, furrier, the maker of boots and shoes, clogs, driving belts, gloves, handbags and purses, harness and saddles, hats, ball maker, coach trimmer, felt maker, pump-washer maker, last and boot tree, parchment and vellum, taxidermist, loriner and whip maker. There are chapters on manufacturers (tanner's and currier's tools) and on decoration.
Price: £28.50
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R. A. Salaman, DICTIONARY OF WOODWORKING TOOLS c. 1700-1970 and Tools of Allied Trades
Ref: CHT9013
This is the 2nd edition, revised by Philip Walker, of what has become recognised as the definitive reference work on handtools used in the woodworking trades. Every known tool is described. Over 450 town and country workshops were visited in the compiling of this record. The purpose of each tool is explained and many of the original methods and sayings of tradesmen are also recorded.
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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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