Tool Information Files
The revolutionary impact of the internet now allows the construction of a detailed electronic encyclopedia of New England's most important toolmakers. This task is an essential component of constructing an archaeology of tools of the maritime culture of Maine. Visitors to this website can be extremely helpful by providing us citations of publications and website links pertaining to the many 18th and 19th century tool manufacturers and toolmakers who created the hand tools that helped build America.
Special
Collections of Tools at The Davistown Museum
Note: some of these are repeated from the toolmaker lists above and
others are special groupings that are not necessarily associated with only
one manufacturer.
The Boston wrench group
C. Drew & Co. (listing of the tools in
the Drew collection)
Norman Epstein (listing of the tools in
the Epstein hoard)
Knox Engine Company (listing of the
tools in the W. F. Blake
collection)
Kenneth Lynch (listing of the Lynch
collection tools)
Levi Tinkham (listing of the Tinkham
collection)
Abiel F. Walker (listing
of the tools in the Walker
collection)
Willards (Benjamin, Simon, Aaron), (listing
of the Simon Willard
collection)
Joseph Holmes