Clark House Project

[NavyRet98]

Thank you both!  You were both correct after Google searching the term you provided.

#49 is gonna be tough. I think it may be for roasting marshmellows.

[NavyRet98]

Well, I'll be darned. It IS a marshmallow roasting fork!   


https://www.etsy.com/listing/189614339/campfire-weenie-marshmallow-roasting

[Branson]

49 is a meat fork or a toasting fork for holding things over a fire to cook, toast, or heat up.  Yeah, could be marshmallows or hot dogs, but the idea is older than marshmallows.   53 is exactly what gibbonstool says.  54, definitely a gimlet.  50 appears to be some sort of special use tongs, but I can't say what.

[NavyRet98]

Almost done!!  Can anyone help me with #71 and #71?  THANKS!!

[keykeeper]

49 is a hand-wrought fork for cooking, probably over an open fire.

71 looks to be a cape chisel, and 72 looks like a countersink or reamer for screw holes.

[NavyRet98]

Thank you, sir.  Last one!!!

#75. It has a tapered inside as if to put a point or taper on a dowel.

[Branson]

>  It has a tapered inside as if to put a point or taper on a dowel.

I think you have a genuine widget.  No, there really is such a thing as a widget -- not for pointing a dowel but for making one.  Works like an old pencil sharpener more or less.

[thiggy]

#50 looks to me like an automotive tool which is used to remove the bearing cup from the front wheel of a rear wheel drive vehicle.

[Chillylulu]

#50 looks to me like an automotive tool which is used to remove the bearing cup from the front wheel of a rear wheel drive vehicle.

I have a snap-on cover remover, both sides are equal, not offset, and they don't come together tightly.  But I can see this as one also, and not just for rear wheel drives.  A lot of other vehicles and trailers have pressed in bearing covers.

Chilly

[Billman49]

71 looks like a well worn plugging chisel - used to cut out a joint in brickwork for insertion of a wooden plug (pre dates masonry drills and rawlplugs)...

50 (tongs) looks like a tool used to fit U bolts to buggy and waggon axles - but several tools have a similar form... but I also have a similar pair that are a sort of cutler's or smith's pick up tongs...

[NavyRet98]

I'd like to thank everyone for helping me identify some of the tools for the Clark House project. I'm now in the process of building a work bench and cabinet for displaying these items during special events at the Clark House in Orange Park, Florida. Once the project is finished, I'll post pictures.

Now visitors will be able to view vintage woodworking tools from the 1800's and early 1900's.

THANKS AGAIN!

http://claycountysounder.com/images/clarkhouseRevisit/saycheese.htm

[anglesmith]

I think that the tongs (50) are automotive brake spring pliers ? Has the straight side got a little hook on the end ?
Graeme