Featuring more than 60 categories, including adzes, anvils, mallets, cement tools, carpenter tools, drills, hatchets, chisels, beekeeping, plumbing tools, gardening tools, surveying and wood cutting, this comprehensive guide covers the tools and machinery of yesteryear. The author has spent the past 40 years gathering information, literature, old catalogues, as well as antiques, and has assembled them all into this fully-illustrated identification guide. Each item is listed with a description, history, common uses, and ...
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Featuring more than 60 categories, including adzes, anvils, mallets, cement tools, carpenter tools, drills, hatchets, chisels, beekeeping, plumbing tools, gardening tools, surveying and wood cutting, this comprehensive guide covers the tools and machinery of yesteryear. The author has spent the past 40 years gathering information, literature, old catalogues, as well as antiques, and has assembled them all into this fully-illustrated identification guide. Each item is listed with a description, history, common uses, and manufacturers. Many tools are depicted with fascinating photos and illustrations. This is a great identification resource for all collectors.
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Seller's Description:
Good. Some outer edges have minor scuffs. Cover has light scratches/marks. Hand writing on first page. Reading content is in very good condition. Despatched within 24 hours. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 255 p. Contains: Illustrations.
Great reference book on antique tools and machinery during the development of America. Shows many manufacturers with many improvements and changes of different equipment and tools. Lots of manufacturing time spans that help greatly in dating equipment. Some good base values for reference (although dated). Excellent photos and copies of original sales brochures, drawings, print plates etc from the period. If you're a collector a must have, if you like American history a great book to review.
