saw this in an antique store in Halifax NS

https://www.flickr.com/photos/49890731@N.../42070461544/in/dateposted-public/

So intriguing with the filagree casting that I just couldn’t resist. Mis-id’d as
a Craftsman try square, turns out it is  union tool try square circa 1885,
predating the starret patent on a try square
And it was probably (exquisitly) re-japanned or was never used (not likely)
Sometimes you jus gotta trust yer gut eh?


Cowtown Eric
Keeping the faith

On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 9:09 PM  wrote:

> saw this in an antique store in Halifax NS
>
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/49890731@N.../42070461544/in/dateposted-public/
>
> So intriguing with the filagree casting that I just couldn’t resist.
> ....turns out it is  union tool try square circa 1885, predating the
> starret patent on a try square


Wow, that is styling.  Nice score.  That will look good around the shop.

Kirk in HMB, CA, who scored a bit today, but nothing that ornate.
-- 
Sent from my iPad, apologies for the Auto Correct errors. Kirk

Eric!

That's beautiful!  Doesn't matter what you had to pay, if you could afford it,
it's worth it.

A quibble though, I've heard all my life that Leroy developed the very first
combo square in the 1870s and founded the company to manufacture them and SO
much more in 1880.  Not so?

                                             EMWTK---gam in OlyWA 

How horrible it is to have so many people killed!---And what a blessing one
cares for none of them!
Jane Austen

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saw this in an antique store in Halifax NS

https://www.flickr.com/photos/49890731@N.../42070461544/in/dateposted-public/

So intriguing with the filagree casting that I just couldn’t resist. Mis-id’d as
a Craftsman try square, turns out it is  union tool try square circa 1885,
predating the starret patent on a try square
And it was probably (exquisitly) re-japanned or was never used (not likely)
Sometimes you jus gotta trust yer gut eh?


Cowtown Eric
Keeping the faith
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That thing is beautiful

Ed Minch

> On Jun 16, 2018, at 11:02 PM, ecoyle@t... wrote:
> 
> saw this in an antique store in Halifax NS
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/49890731@N.../42070461544/in/dateposted-public/
> 
> So intriguing with the filagree casting that I just couldn’t resist. Mis-id’d
as a Craftsman try square, turns out it is  union tool try square circa 1885,
predating the starret patent on a try square
> And it was probably (exquisitly) re-japanned or was never used (not likely)
> Sometimes you jus gotta trust yer gut eh?
> 

Got one. Mine came w/ a Goodell-Pratt rule but the seller id’ed the head as a
Standard Rule Co. design.

Here is a catalog page c. 1890 (about 1/2 way down the page; click to open
images):
https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-and-history
/standard-tool-co-chaplins-patent-4-rule-help-
identify-332258/">https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-and-
history/standard-tool-co-chaplins-patent-4-rule-help-identify-332258/

And two more references:

https://www.antiqbuyer.com/All_Archives/TOOLS_ARCHIVE/archive-SQUARES-BVLS.htm

https://books.google.com/books?id=MLLPdr3q-B8C&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=Stan
dard+Tool+Co.+center+square&source=bl&ots=23qfEbtZg7&sig=gD7sKTjsWDNu3oDWSrFtpUE
3Pnk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQ5IPm0trbAhXJqFkKHQpCDC4Q6AEwEnoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=
Standard%20Tool%20Co.%20center%20square&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?
id=MLLPdr3q-B8C&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=Standard+Tool+Co.+center+square&source=bl&ot
s=23qfEbtZg7&sig=gD7sKTjsWDNu3oDWSrFtpUE3Pnk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQ5IPm0trbAhX
JqFkKHQpCDC4Q6AEwEnoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=Standard%20Tool%20Co.%20center%20square&
f=false

Part of the id is that it is a two piece casting. Look for four rivets holding
the thing together where the blade passes thru.

Bill

I don't think I could have resisted either

It looks like the scriber is missing



Of course
NICE find

Eric

I've got one as well with a rule that doesn't have any makers mark,
and the groove is offset from the center. I don't use it much because
the rule is tapered down it's length, and thus can't draw a
perpendicular line to anything. So it just hangs on my tool board and
looks nice. I didn't realize it would work with a Starrett rule, so
maybe it's time to take it out of retirement.

Thanks,
Chris