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Antique Tools – Unexpected Finds and Eccentric Objects
About this book
Have you ever wondered, how all the wonderful objects in our museums were made? The masterly use of hand tools by our ancestors would probably be at the core of the answer. Often those skills and particularly the tools that were used have been left out of the limelight though. Are you interested in; hand tools and making objects, collecting, crafts and trades, material culture, museum studies, social history, folk art? If the answer is 'yes' to any one of these topics, this publication may pique your curiosity! In this publication, various antique tools are illustrated and analysed, in relation to their previous functions, their cultural value as objects, and why they are studied and collected. Our current times are dominated by mass-produced objects, many being the results of computer software design and automated production lines. The tools illustrated within this book may provide refreshing alternatives to this. Take a closer look at these examples of craftsmanship from our collective past.
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Table of contents
- Jonathan Green-Plumb
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Collectionitis
- Nomenclature, Analysis, Provenance
- Collecting (Tools)
- Measure Twice, Cut Once
- Mistaken Identity
- That Object of Desire
- Two Early Germanic Tools
- Vergatthobel—German Mitre Plane and John The Fearless
- Patriotic Additions
- An Eccentric English Brace— Technically Ingenious or Flawed Mechanical Advantage?
- Hammer—Of The French Joiner/ Carpenter
- Hammer
- Make Do and Mend
- Adventitious Creations
- Austrian wooden compasses of decorative form and profile, early 20th century
- Germanic Rule
- Apotropaic Tools
- Kreuzaxt—Tool Folklore
- Brass
- Dutch Carpenter’s Saw
- Chest of a Ship’s Carpenter
- Bulk and Delicacy
- Other Eccentrics
- Early Morning Serendipity
- Dutch Saw
- Suggested Reading
- Museology and Collecting
- Index
- Index of authors