SUPPLEMENT 



TO THI 



( ATALOdl E 



IWOICE PRICE LIST 



illoulduig Tools, &c., 



manufactured at tbe 



Middletown. Conn. 



m.., 



HaMI-S H, I'KI.TON. IMUNTER 

 1 S57. 



Figure 12. — 1857: The diversity of tools avail- 

 able to buyers made necessary the illustrated trade 

 catalogue. Although few in number in the United 

 States before 1850, tool catalogues became volu- 

 minous in the last half of the century as printing 

 costs dropped. (Smithsonian Institution Library. 

 Smithsonian photo 49790.) 



(Continued from page 18^) 



Nearly 1 20 years later Amasa Thompson listed his 

 tools and their value. Thompson's list is a splendid 

 comparison of the tools needed in actual practice, 

 as opposed to the tools suggested by Nicholson in his 

 treatise on carpentry or those shown in the catalogues 

 of the toolmakers." Thompson listed the following: 



' York County Records, Virginia Deeds, Orders, and Wills, 

 no. 13 (1706-1 7 10), p. 248; and the inventory of Amasa 

 Thompson in Lawrence B. Romaine, "A Yankee Carpenter 

 and His Tools," The Chronicle of the Early American Industries 

 Association (July 1953), vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 33-34. 



set bench planes $6. 00 



Broad Axe 3- 00 



Adze 2. 25 



Panel saw i • 50 



Panel saw 1-58 



fine do- 1-58 



Drawing knife 46 



Trying square . .93 



Shingling hatchet 50 



Hammer 50 



Rabbit plane 83 



Halving do 50 



Backed fine saw. . i. 25 



Inch augre 50 



pr. dividers or compasses- 71 



Panel saw for spliting 2. 75 



Tennon guage i . 42 



Bevel 84 



Bradd Hammer 50 



Architect Book 6. 50 



Case Mathematical Instruments 3. 62 2 



Panel saw 2. 75 



Grafting saw 1 . 00 



Bench screw 1 . 00 



Stamp 2. 50 



Double joint rule 62H 



Sash saw i . 1 2^^ 



Oil Cann 17 



Brace & 36 straw cold bits 9- 00 



Window Frame tool 4. 00 



Blind tool i. 33 



Glue Kettle 62^2 



Grindstone without crank '-75 



Machine for whetting saws 75 



Tennoning machine 4- 50 



Drafting board and square Bevel- 1-25 



Noseing sash plane with templets & copes ... 4- 50 



pr. clamps for clamping doors 2. 17 



Set Bench Planes — double irons.- 7- 50 



Grindstone 300 lbs ^ 6. 25 



Stove for shop-$7.25, one elbow. .37 & 40 



lbs second hand pipe $4.00 1 1. 62 



Bed moulding 2. 00 



Pr. shears for cutting tin.- 17 



Morticing Machine '0-75 



Grecian Ovilo i. 13 



!i6 beed ■ .67 



Spirit level 2. 25 



Oil stone 42 



Small trying square. . 48 



pareing chisel 37 



Screw driver 29 



Bench screw ... 75 



Box rule 50 



% Augre 41 



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