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268305 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2019‑04‑17 unusual corner brace
Said to be Millers Falls, but I can't find it in any of my digital 
catalogues.

https://www.jimbodetools.com/collections/whats-new/products/millers-
falls-corner-brace-86101">https://www.jimbodetools.com/collections/whats-
new/products/millers-falls-corner-brace-86101

Can anyone shed light?

Don

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268306 Ed Minch <ruby1638@a...> 2019‑04‑17 Re: unusual corner brace
Don

It’s McClellan’s patent, later made by M-F.  It came with the ball on the end,
or the breast pad, as in this one:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/patented-stephen-mcclellan-
corner-bit-534091420">https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/patented-stephen-
mcclellan-corner-bit-534091420

Ed Minch
268307 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2019‑04‑17 Re: unusual corner brace
On 2019-04-17 4:31 a.m., Ed Minch wrote:
> Don
>
> It’s McClellan’s patent, later made by M-F.  It came with the ball on 
> the end, or the breast pad, as in this one:
>
> https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/patented-stephen-mcclellan-
corner-bit-534091420">https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/patented-stephen-
mcclellan-corner-bit-534091420
>
> Ed Minch
>
>> On Apr 17, 2019, at 2:35 AM, Don Schwartz > <mailto:dks@t...>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Said to be Millers Falls, but I can't find it in any of my digital 
>> catalogues.
>>
>> https://www.jimbodetools.com/collections/whats-new/products/millers-
falls-corner-brace-86101">https://www.jimbodetools.com/collections/whats-
new/products/millers-falls-corner-brace-86101
>>
>> Can anyone shed light?
>>
>> Don
>
Thanks very much. I wasn't able to access the worthpoint, but located 
this article with photos & patent drawings on the New Zealand Vintage 
Tool Collectors Club site.

https://nzvtcc.org.nz/mcclellan-patent-corner-race/

Don

-- 
“It is better to be killed by a woman with a knife than by a man with a gun.”
Che Guevara

A thermometer is not liberal or conservative. - Katharine Hayhoe

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Thomas Paine

Being offended doesn't make you right.
268308 Ed Minch <ruby1638@a...> 2019‑04‑17 Re: unusual corner brace
Don

Here is a variant - I have this one that I got in a local gar(b)age sail.  

Ed

https://www.jimbodetools.com/products/rare-mc-clellan-february-18-1890
-patent-corner-brace-72944">https://www.jimbodetools.com/products/rare-mc-
clellan-february-18-1890-patent-corner-brace-72944

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