Tool Talk
Woodworking Forum => Woodworking Forum => Topic started by: Northwoods on November 15, 2020, 09:47:03 AM
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Picked up one of these last weekend. Unfortunately mine has no identification; I understand they were made by several concerns.
Took me a bit to figure what it is. Made from an 1830 patent--before the government began to issue patent numbers, which first began in 1836: https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/issuyear.htm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Patent#:~:text=Recovery%20of%20the%20X%2DPatents,-The%20United%20States&text=The%20first%20patent%20denoted%20with,was%20given%20the%20number%201.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-aikens-1830-patented-hammer-1868004565
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Have you ever checked this site?? http://members.acmenet.net/~con12a/
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Yes, I have seen that site. In fact, that is where I first stumbled across it.
To tell you the truth, I had never seen--or heard of--a hammer style saw set. When I first picked it up off some lady's garage floor, I thought maybe it was for cutting saw teeth. What I know about saw sets, you could write on the back of a three cent stamp.
I suppose I will soon find another--and then never see another as long as I live. That is how these things run for me.
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What I know about saw sets, you could write on the back of a three cent stamp.
Of course, first you have to find a three cent stamp. At one time, I could have helped you out; but I gave my grandmother's small stash of non-collectable but cool stamps to a young woman who likes old stamps, maps, and other things that most of her generation would consider weird.
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I liked the 3 cent statue stamp, but I loved the 8 cent version.
https://www.123rf.com/photo_11616934_usa--circa-1958-a-stamp-printed-in-usa-shows-the-statue-of-liberty-with-the-inscription-in-god-we-tr.html