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Offline lptools

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Pattern Maker's Box Items
« on: August 06, 2020, 06:14:47 PM »
Hello, I am in the process of sorting out the tools from a Pattern Maker's Box. I will post pics of the box at a later date.  At top is a Winchester #8744 Two Speed Hand Drill, missing side handle. Next is a drawknife marked WARD CAST STEEL ( not Wards) ,with  some other symbols and lettering, I think it is a Ward & Payne. At bottom is a Sargent Parrot Head Pruning Shear (Bernard on handle). On the right is a K & E Wyteface 100' Steel Tape in the original box. All of these are firsts for me!!! Regards, Lou
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Re: Pattern Maker's Box Items
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2020, 06:31:02 PM »
The Bernard's Parrot Pruner us perfect for most women's hands.  They were advertised a lot during their production. Handy item, I have a couple of them.
You might say I have a tool collecting problem....

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Re: Pattern Maker's Box Items
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2020, 07:47:26 PM »
Hello, Yadda. Thanks for the info. Who was the manufacturer, Sargent & Co.? or Bernard? Regards, Lou
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Re: Pattern Maker's Box Items
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2020, 08:55:06 PM »
Hi Lou, Sargent would have been the manufacturer, Bernard was the inventor of all that stuff. Great tools. I’m not quite sure what a pattern maker would have used them for.
Schollhorn had his hand in this too.

Here’s a good explanation at DATAMP:   http://www.datamp.org/patents/advance.php?pn=427220&id=15595&set=9
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Re: Pattern Maker's Box Items
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2020, 04:13:17 AM »
Hello, Mike. Thanks for the info!! The Pattern Maker's box came from his home, so I am guessing that it also held some of the tools that he used at home. Regards, Lou
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Re: Pattern Maker's Box Items
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2020, 04:53:22 AM »
Pruners might be handy for neatly trimming small pieces of wood or dowel


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Re: Pattern Maker's Box Items
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2020, 06:34:27 AM »
Pruners might be handy for neatly trimming small pieces of wood or dowel


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Certainly a possibility.
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Re: Pattern Maker's Box Items
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2020, 12:33:19 PM »
There's always the possibility that family members, unfamiliar with the tools and faced with having to put the pruners somewhere, decided on "that box there."