| The Davistown Museum |
| Center for the Study of Early Tools |
| Scattered throughout The Davistown Museum are tools by important manufacturers who are also the subject of |
| information files compiled by the museum. This is a listing of our holdings for: |
| Stanley Rule & Level Co. |
| | Status | Location |
| Historic Maritime IV (1840-1865): The Early Industrial Revolution |
| Woodworking: Edge Tools |
| 71401T17 | Spokeshave | bio | photo | BDTM | MH |
| Cast grey iron, steel, and brass, 10 1/4" long, 2 1/4" wide blade, signed on the brass nut holding the blade "Bailey's Pat. July 13 58". |
| This is an excellent example of Leonard Bailey's tools before he joined in partnership with Augustus Stanley to form the Stanley Tool Co. For |
| more information see Roger Smith's (1960) "Patented Transitional and Metallic Planes" Vol. I pg. 41 - 58 and Vol. II pg. 21 - 38. |
| The Industrial Revolution (1865f.): Classic Period of American Machinists' Tools |
| Measuring Tools |
| 22211T11 | Folding rule | bio | DTM | TT |
| Boxwood and brass, 12" long (extended), 3" long (folded), 5/16" wide, 1/8" thick, signed "No 70" on both sides. |
| This is a Stanley No. 70 rule. Part of the Robert Sullivan Collection donation. |
| 22211T16 | Folding rule | bio | DTM | TT |
| Boxwood and brass, 24" long (extended), 6" long (folded), 1/2" wide, 1/8" thick, signed "STANLEY No 62" "STANLEY RULE" "& LEVEL |
| CO." "NEW BRITAIN, CONN." "USA" "WARRENTED" "BOXWOOD". |
| This is a Stanley No. 62 rule. Part of the Robert Sullivan Collection donation. |
| 22211T12 | Folding rule | bio | DTM | TT |
| Boxwood and brass, 24" long (extended), 6" long (folded), 5/8" wide, 1/8" thick, signed "STANLEY" "NEW BRITAIN" "CONN. U.S.A." and |
| "No 7" on both sides. |
| This is a Stanley No. 7 rule. Part of the Robert Sullivan Collection donation. |
| 22211T10 | Folding rule | bio | DTM | TT |
| Boxwood and brass, 12" long (extended), 3" long (folded), 5/16" wide, 1/8" thick, signed "No 65" on both sides. |
| This is a Stanley No. 65 rule. Part of the Robert Sullivan Collection donation. |
| 92911T4 | Level | bio | DTM | MH |
| Mahogany with brass ends, 30 1/4" long, 3 1/8" wide, 1 1/4" high, signed "STANLEY RULE & LEVEL CO" "NEW BRITAIN, CONN USA" |
| "PAT FEB 18.90". |
| There are two spirit bubbles with adjustments and an adjusting screw. |
| 31808SLP18 | Sliding T bevel | bio | photo | DTM | TT |
| Steel blade, brass trim, and lacquered rosewood handle, 10" long, 6 5/8" long handle, signed "STANLEY" "RULE & LEVEL Co" "NEW |
| BRITAIN. CONN" "U.S.A." and "PAT. 9-6-04". |
| The Industrial Revolution (1865f.): Other Factory Made Tools |
| Blacksmith, Farrier, and Metalworking Tools |
| 111001T26A | Cold chisel | bio | DTM | MH |
| Drop-forged steel, 5 1/2" long, 7/16" blade, signed "Stanley Atha 16(?) 3-8 Made in USA". |
| 21201T4 | Farriers' hammer | bio | DTM | MH |
| Drop-forged steel, wooden handle, 11 5/8" long, 9 5/8" handle, 4 3/8" wide, 5/8" octagonal face, signed "Atha Tool" with the distinctive |
| horseshoe touchmark. |
| DATM (Nelson 1999) indicates the famous and prolific Atha Tool Co. may have been producing tools as early as 1875 in Newark, NJ. Buying |
| out many competing tool and hammer-makers, they were purchased by the Stanley Rule & Level Co. in 1913, who retained their touchmark. |
| "They were especially noted for farrier tools and also made mining tools." (Nelson 1999, 39). |
| Coopers' Tools |
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