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Antique tool

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Tool-collecting categories
List of manufacturers
List of tool collectors
See also
Further reading
External links
Museums Pictorial collections Tool associations Australia Netherlands United Kingdom United States Tool auctioneers Tool dealers Tool information
Notes

Although an antique tool might be said to be one that is more than a hundred years old, the term is often used to describe any old tool of quality that might be deemed collectable.

The use of tools is one of the primary means by which humans are distinguished from other animals. Tools are the parents of all other antiques. Most man-made objects were made and great effort goes into the creation of newer and better tools to solve the production problems of today. The study of antique tools provides a glimpse of human development and cultural preferences history.

The creation of a tool often makes possible the creation of more advanced tools. Advanced tools made possible the manufacture of internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and computers. Among those who like to collect, some may do so as part of a rigorous study program - they want to catalog all types of a specific tool, for example. Some collectors may wish to preserve some of the past for future generations, others fall under the spell of the beauty of some antique tools.

Tool-collecting categories

Categories of tools range from the broad - planes, rules, braces, hammers, etc. to the specific - planes made by the Gage Company of Vineland, New Jersey, for example. People who are new to the hobby should know that there are many good modern reference books that will guide you in your search, as well as many reprints of the catalogs in which these tools were originally offered. Often tools will exhibit differences contrasting the different locations of their makers, or different features contrasting different time periods.

The following are some ways people collect tools:

Tools of a specific company or maker - for example, L. Bailey Victor tools, Seneca Falls Tool Company tools, Miller's Falls tools, Disston Saws, Chelor planes, etc.
Tools of a specific type - hammers, braces, axes, saws, patented planes, transitional planes, treadle-powered machines, etc.
Tools of a specific period - tools from 1850 to 1900, post-World War II era tools, etc.
Tools from a specific place - Scottish tools, tools from Massachusetts makers, etc.
Tools of a specific occupation - cooper's tools, machinist tools, watchmaker's tools, garden tools.
A combination of one or more of the above categories — for example, one each of a specific type of Stanley tool, i.e. all Stanley saws, all Stanley marking gauges, all Stanley planes, etc.
A "type study" of one specific model, for example, a type study of Stanley #6 jointer planes or Norris A5 smooth planes.
Tools that show how a specific idea progressed over time, for example tools tracing the development of the plane's adjusting mechanisms, or tools showing how an early patent was bought out and developed by another company.
Tool advertising and catalogs.

List of manufacturers

Holtzapffel, English producer of lathes as well as edge and boring tools, London
Alexander Mathieson & Sons, Scottish manufacturer of edge tools, Glasgow
T. Norris & Son, English maker of fine planes, London
Edward Preston & Sons, English maker of wooden and iron woodworking tools, Birmingham, 1825 to 1932
Stanley, American producer of tools
Stewart Spiers, Scottish maker of fine planes, Ayr

List of tool collectors

Ken Hawley
Henry Chapman Mercer
Luigi Nessi^[1]
David R. Russell
Raphael Salaman
Eric Sloane

External links

Museums

Deutsches Werkzeugmuseum, Remscheid
[https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/art-museums/wallace-museum DeWitt Wallace Museum], Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
Eric Sloane Museum & Kent Iron Furnace, Kent, Connecticut
Hawley Collection, Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield
[https://www.mercermuseum.org/ Mercer Museum], Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Maison de l’Outil et de la Pensée Ouvrière, Troyes, France
Museum voor de Oudere Technieken, Grimbergen, Belgium
Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum, Kobe, Japan

Pictorial collections

Catalogue of American Patented Antique Tools. A pictorial collection of interesting hand tools
Key to the Manufactories of Sheffield, Sheffield: Joseph Smith, 1816. Pictorial guide to tool-making in Sheffield

Tool associations

Australia

Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc

Netherlands

Ambachten & Gereedschap

United Kingdom

Tools and Trades History Society

United States

Early American Industries Association
[https://www.mwtca.org/ Mid-West Tool Collectors Association]

Tool auctioneers

[https://www.finetoolj.com Brown Tool Auctions], Watervliet, MI 49098, USA
David Stanley Auctions, Osgathorpe, Leicestershire, LE12 9SR, England
Tennants Auctioneers, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5SG, England. A department specializes in scientific instruments, cameras and tools
Tony Murland's antique tool auction house, Rendlesham, Suffolk, IP12 2TZ, England. Catalogues emphasize artistic aspects of tools

Tool dealers

Old Hand Tools and Collectables, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 9HZ, England
Union Hill Antique Tools, USA. A site with introductory articles for tool collectors, and antique tools for sale

Tool information

Find My Tool, UK. Reviews antique and vintage as well as new tools
Old Tool Reprint Room. Lists reprints of old tool catalogues

Notes

1. ^The Swiss tool collector Luigi Nessi (d. 2009) gave up his career as architect and urban planner to devote himself to collecting and documenting tools from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. A major auction of items from his collection was held by Koller in Zurich in 2012. See article by John G. Wells in the Chronicle, EAIA, vol. 65, issue 4, December 2012, pp. 160–2. See Further reading above for details of the book about his collection.

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