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135929 | Still Ray <raydrake@o...> | 2004‑08‑16 | First time post W/ short Bio |
Thank you all for sharing with me the knowledge and wisdom you have garnered over the years. Ok thats a bit thick but really thanks. Now for my Bio I am a 42 year old divorced father of 2 adult children. My eldest has given me two grandsons. I built my first chair when I was 7, the type where the pedestal and backrest was one piece from scrap wood. I had been a trim carpenter for 21 years. Now I own my own company. I live in NY on Long Island and make frequent trips to Utica to visit the Grand kids. It was on one of these trips that I picked up a saw That I am having trouble ID'ing. It was made by A.H. + I Co. of Albany, New York. The etching Says "Carpenters Choice" # 39, Spring Steel Patent Temper Patent Ground There is something else written in scrip below this I cant quite make it out The Handle medallion has a patent date of Dec. 27, 1827 Attached is a Photo. The handle has been user modified by cutting the bottom horn sometime in the past to resemble ? a disston saw. If any one has info on this saw or knows of any good hunting grounds in New York Please reply. |
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135934 | Don McConnell <DMCCONN@c...> | 2004‑08‑16 | Re: First time post W/ short Bio |
Still Ray wrote: >... I picked up a saw That I am having trouble ID'ing. > It was made by A.H. + I Co. of Albany, New York. The etching Says > "Carpenters Choice" > # 39, Spring Steel > Patent Temper Patent Ground Based on information from Erv Schaffer's _Hand-Saw Makers of North America_, I'd guess that the saw was purchased from the Albany Hardware & Iron Co. A circa 1904 catalogue indicated that they carried saws made for them by Disston, including the "Carpenter's Choice" model. Don McConnell Knox County, Ohio |
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