This weekend is the annual Spring Jacktown Engine Show flea market.  
This is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday but there are vendors that set 
up early, so I was there.  The weather was mild and sunny when I got 
there but it soon clouded up.  There weren't too many folks set up but 
the few that were there had some goods to offer.

Some of the action.

http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2019/jacktownspring2019d1f1.jpg

Pickings were okay.  In woodworking tools, I got an 8" Yankee brace, 
good shape, but the ratchet and chuck need some attention, a set if 6 
Irwin bits in the case, a carving tool and a couple of chisels, and a 
Stanley SW 6" bevel square.

http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2019/jacktownspring2019d1t1.jpg

In the miscellaneous department, I got an herb cutting knife, a Starrett 
sheet metal thickness gage, a neat machinist protractor, a nice Snell & 
Atherton leather thickness gage, a big screwplate, a leather pinking 
tool hand forged from a file, a sweet little H Boker divider, a saw 
setting wrest and split nut screwdriver tool, a Starrett metric rule in 
the case, and an old small double caliper.

http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2019/jacktownspring2019d1t2.jpg

Not a great pile but it was worth the effort.

And I had posted this on Facebook yesterday but this month marks my 25th 
anniversary of being in the old tool business.

http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2019/oldriver25th03.jpg

Tony (just another day in old toolville)

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Tony,

That combination saw wrest and split-nut driver tool is very interesting!
Please tell us about the maker’s mark.  That thing is worthy of reproduction!

This was for fairly large split nuts. What sort of saw has that size of split
nuts?

Continuing the theme of “Oh, the things that I’ve learned on the Porch!”  The
“herb cutting knife” is something I’ve seen many times without knowing exactly
what they were.  I’d mistakenly thought they were weavers tools! Thanks to your
informative post, I stand corrected!



Sent from my iPhone

Yeah, I saw that on either Faceplant or LinkedIn. Congratulations! Did
Management give you a nice party and gold watch?

-T

> And I had posted this on Facebook yesterday but this month marks my 25th
> anniversary of being in the old tool business.

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On 5/17/2019 2:02 PM, Tom Dugan wrote:
> Yeah, I saw that on either Faceplant or LinkedIn. Congratulations! Did 
> Management give you a nice party and gold watch?


Well there was bourbon, but then there is always bourbon....


Tony


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On 5/17/2019 1:40 PM, John Ruth wrote:
> Tony,
>
> That combination saw wrest and split-nut driver tool is very interesting!
Please tell us about the maker’s mark.  That thing is worthy of reproduction!

The mark is R Timmins & Son, faint but readable.  Measuring 7 13/16" 
overall, the wrest area is 2 1/2" long, the screwdriver tip is 5/8" 
across the outside, about 3/8" across the inside of the tips, and this 
weighs 4 3/4 oz unboxed.  R Timmons & Son were long time Birmingham 
England tool makers in business from 1790 until 1887 when they merged 
with W Wynn.  This is sold already.

http://oldetoolshop.com/forsale/may/sawtool0502a.jpg
http://oldetoolshop.com/forsale/may/sawtool0502b.jpg


> This was for fairly large split nuts. What sort of saw has that size of split
nuts?

No idea but the grooves on the wrest are for fine toothed saws.


> Continuing the theme of “Oh, the things that I’ve learned on the Porch!”  The
“herb cutting knife” is something I’ve seen many times without knowing exactly
what they were.  I’d mistakenly thought they were weavers tools! Thanks to your
informative post, I stand corrected!

Well I have heard them called that but I have always known them as herb 
chopping knives.   I know that Universal made them but until I clean 
that guy I can't say if there is a maker on it  It was factory made.

Tony (doing battle with a cranky ISP SMTP server as well...grrrrrrr)


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Not that anybody will care, but...

I believe what you are calling an herb knife is actually a banana knife.  The
first time I had one it took me forever to figure it out.  I have one right now
marked Universal L. F. & C. (Landers, Frary & Clark).

If you go here you will see more about banana knives than you ever thought
possible and some old catalog reprints identifying them as such.

http://www.bananas.org/f2/banana-knife-great-american-tool-12728.html

Ed O'

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Subject: [OldTools] Spring Jacktown Engine Show Flea Market May 2019 Day 1

This weekend is the annual Spring Jacktown Engine Show flea market. This is
scheduled for Saturday and Sunday but there are vendors that set up early, so I
was there.  The weather was mild and sunny when I got there but it soon clouded
up.  There weren't too many folks set up but the few that were there had some
goods to offer.

Some of the action.

http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2019/jacktownspring2019d1f1.jpg

Pickings were okay.  In woodworking tools, I got an 8" Yankee brace, good shape,
but the ratchet and chuck need some attention, a set if 6 Irwin bits in the
case, a carving tool and a couple of chisels, and a Stanley SW 6" bevel square.

http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2019/jacktownspring2019d1t1.jpg

In the miscellaneous department, I got an herb cutting knife, a Starrett sheet
metal thickness gage, a neat machinist protractor, a nice Snell & Atherton
leather thickness gage, a big screwplate, a leather pinking tool hand forged
from a file, a sweet little H Boker divider, a saw setting wrest and split nut
screwdriver tool, a Starrett metric rule in the case, and an old small double
caliper.

http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2019/jacktownspring2019d1t2.jpg

Not a great pile but it was worth the effort.

And I had posted this on Facebook yesterday but this month marks my 25th
anniversary of being in the old tool business.

http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2019/oldriver25th03.jpg

Tony (just another day in old toolville)

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On May 17, 2019, at 6:30 PM, Anthony Seo via OldTools mailto:oldtools@s...">mailto:oldtools@s...>> wrote:


Continuing the theme of “Oh, the things that I’ve learned on the Porch!”  The
“herb cutting knife” is something I’ve seen many times without knowing exactly
what they were.  I’d mistakenly thought they were weavers tools! Thanks to your
informative post, I stand corrected!

Well I have heard them called that but I have always known them as herb chopping
knives.   I know that Universal made them but until I clean that guy I can't say
if there is a maker on it  It was factory made.

I’vet seen a few around here in central Missouri.  I have heard them referred to
as banana knives.  I would have purchased one recently but the asking price was
just a bit high for me.  Figured it would be good for cutting weeds.  Fairly
thin blade so should sharpen up reeeeealy sharp.

Can’t imagine how a weaver would use a knife with that length of blade with the
curve.

—Scott






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Scott Stager
Columbia Missouri