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ID:	629266 As some of you know I am the Curator for the Snyder County Historical Society Museum. Late last year we had a nice donation of old carpentry tools. I was asked to do a program about them on Sunday. Someone from the forum told me to do a thread. Here is the introduction.

    Ever since humankind has walked the earth they had to make their own tools. From primitive man making theirs tools from stone and bone. to modern man and the high tech tools of the present. All these tolls (pictured) were made by hand. The blacksmiths produced tools for the carpenter , the plumber, tin smiths and all other smith and laborers. Experimentation was surely part of the fabrications. When the tool didn't function well, the fabricator would endeavor to make it better until a fully functioning tool was accomplished. So indeed all of these tools were hand made.
    Everything we do must have a tool to accomplish our task.
    From the simple pencil to the computer chip. Our kitchens utensils, automobiles, lawnmowers, etc. we depend every day. It really doesn't have to be said, but I'm going to say it any way that humankind could not live without our tools. We take them for granted in everything we do. So in ending I will pose this question to you. Why don't you try to do your laundry next time by pounding it on a rock by a stream?


    This is only a small part of the donation and I still have to identify and catalogue this collection in. If anyone wants to come here and help give me a call. (just kidding) Enjoy, Kim
    Last edited by Mattern; 04-26-2022, 09:09 AM. Reason: re-do Picts.
    Knowledge is about how and where to find more Knowledge. Snyder County Pa.

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    No pics?

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    • #3
      Nice forward Kim..
      Floridaboy.

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      • #4
        Cool stuff!
        Hong Kong, but from Indiana/Florida

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        • Mattern
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          Thanks for lookin clovis. K

      • #5
        wow that ia one sweet assemblage.
        TN formerly CT Visit our store http://stores.arrowheads.com/store.p...m-Trading-Post

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        • #6
          Sweet! Love the tools!
          Searching the fields of NW Indiana and SW Michigan

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          • Mattern
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            Curating a Museum is a very interesting and challenging job Greg, and I like doing it. K

        • #7
          Hey Mattern.—- Old Sage H Jack here. Been a while. I collect old Tools. Especially Hatchets/axes and Tomahawks such. In your last Pic—- left side! That loose Hatchet with the down turned spike’ —is a rare Iroquois Spike Tomahawk!!!!! Nice stuff on the table. I have most of them old Tool types in my small collection. Those huge Slick Chisels are sweet

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          • #8
            very nice.. my grandparents had about every tool on the table kicking around there yard when i was young. my great grandpa was a rancher owned alot of property. and there where tools galore around the place. the ol boys where Jack's of all trades by necessity. thank you for taking me back to my younger years memories.
            Utah

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            • #9
              Hey Kim, don't know if you're familiar with Eric Sloane's book 'A Museum of Early American Tools', but a great book for tool ID.

              A Museum of Early American Tools


              https://villageofscotia.org/historia...tool-answer-2/
              Last edited by Olden; 05-04-2022, 09:12 PM.
              If the women don\'t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

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              • Mattern
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                I'll look into that, could help me to Id tools I don't know. K

            • #10
              Just about everything you need to build a log cabin
              2ET703 South Central Texas

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              • #11
                Yup and I'm sure some of those tools did just that. Thanks for lookin. K
                Knowledge is about how and where to find more Knowledge. Snyder County Pa.

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                • #12
                  I just found a cast iron tool at my contact site not shire what it is yet but got a cast iron hoe their last year trade goods
                  New Jersey

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                  • Mattern
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                    Boy that beats me Bull.
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