I'm in possession of a number of donated tools, which I'll be building a bench and display cabinet for an historical house. There are approx. 65 to 70 vintage woodworking tools, some of which I am not familiar with. I will solicit the combined expertise of the master craftsmen of this forum.

Point in case:

I am unsure what this is. Can anyone help? I assume it's some sort of a holding device...

google SHAVING HORSE

Thank you kindly!

Here are some pictures of them in use at an historic display-

I know things were a lot different back in the day.... but, why would you shave a horse?

To take it into church with you?
So it could swim faster?
To make it look younger?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Sincerely,

Chilly

Also called a Schnitzelbank or Schnitzel bunk Scottg offered a picture of his in this old thread.

http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=10239.0

Quote from: Chillylulu on December 26, 2014, 06:42:28 PM
I know things were a lot different back in the day.... but, why would you shave a horse?

To take it into church with you?
So it could swim faster?
To make it look younger?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Sincerely,

Chilly

I assume someone didn't like kissing horses with whiskers. 

Item #19 and 20?

19 is a reamer used by a cooper for enlarging or smoothing the bung hole in a cask/barrel.

20 is a bung auger that allows you to drill the bung hole and shape it with just the one tool.

Mike

Thanks Mike!

Not quite so fast.  20 is an American style bung hole auger, developed in the late 19th Century.  19 is everybody else's bung hole auger judging from the size (same as the American style).  Well, not quite everybody else -- there are a number of styles, but no other has the twist bit to start the hole.   A lot of tapered augers and auger bits are built just the same.  Tap augers, certainly look like this (I have three of these). Some have a twist at the point to screw into the wood and begin the hole, just like a gimlet.   And some were made to chuck into a brace.  Some of these latter have the same tips as spoon and quill bits.

There are bung hole reamers, but a reamer is a shorter tool entirely.  It has a tapered body with a blade set in rather like a spoke shave.

Thank you Branson.  And now for the next query. I'm unsure of #49, #50, #53 and #54.  The reason I'm researching these items is because they were donated to an historical house for display. I'm trying to assess the price of these vintage items so that the Orange Park Historical Society (a nonprofit 501(c) can provide the donor with a receipt for tax purposes. It's a generous donation and worthy of the effort to provide him with a receipt.

Thanks for all your help!!!

I'm guessing #48 is a meat hook, but want to be sure. #50 looks like a hot coal grabber and #53 I believe is a poke, but unsure.   

I'm pretty sure 54 is a gimlet.

Mike

Number 53 is the business end of a pike pole, this is attached to an aluminum or wooden pole of various lengths. Used in the sawmill and forest industry for positioning logs and lumber in many different applications.Very common in sawmills for straightening lumber on transfer decks and sorting bins and were very use full in the old days when the logs were in a pond and steered into a conveyor or jack ladder leading into the mill. If you have ever seen a picture of the log drives in the rivers in the old days these were what the men used to push the logs around with.