LATE ARRIVALS - COLLECTABLES
A Clipper Brand saw vise [sic] by the Clipper Tool Co, Buffalo, NY. With integral clamp for fixing to a convenient tabletop - £29.00
A very good pair of trammel heads by L S Starrett with 6" pins and for fixing on a batten approximately 1.5" x 0.5" - £32.00
An unusual brass, rosewood and steel un-named drawing square, 18" blade, 10.25" stock - £28.00
A rosewood-handled scrivener's eraser, indistinguishable name - £14.00
A good Moore & Wright No.293 plumb bob in original rather battered and stained box, and with original line - £20.00
A fine tap hole auger by I Sorby, with fitted beech handle, and with a maximum diameter of around 1.4" - £16.00
A Stanley No.289 skew fillister and rabbet plane, complete with both nicking cutters and depth stop - £150.00
The sole of the Stanley No.289.
A rare "Yankee" No.2101 ratchet brace by North Bros. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, a division of Stanley Tools, who acquired North in 1946. The brace is unusual in that the ratchet action is totally enclosed, and operated by a small push-button (visible just behind the chuck). In very good condition - £44.00
The pad of the North Bros brace
A very good Salter troy spring balance, graduated to 8 troy ounces and subdivided into pennyweights (20 dwt = 1 troy oz). 215mm long excluding hook - £35.00
A wonderful 1872 patent angular adjustable bit stock by the astonishingly-named Quimby S Backus, of Holyoke, Mass. The adjustment allows for the bit to be anywhere between straight and 45deg to the axis of the main brace. In very good order - £44.00
A Salter No.20T 100lb balance, original lacquering to face in very good condition 1/2lb divisions - £29.00
A 9" brass and rosewood 2-vial level by Carrick & Craig, Glasgow - £14.00