The Cobbs Auctioneers
Important Antique Tool Auction Saturday July 16th 2005 at 10am
in Historic Noone Falls Mill, Peterborough NH

1          Lignum Vitae handle twist auger.
2          Box lot of assorted rules, levels, speed indicator etc.
3          Work bench 5.5 ft. long. Painted base with pin-striping.
4          European decorated jointer plane.
5          Lot of 3 panel gauges.
6          Folding 2 man saw with case.
7          Wooden tool box with contents, 34" by 17" high.
8          Box lot of mallets, hammers & bench shears.
9          Dove tailed box with trays, 34" wide by 18" high.
10         Carpenter's tool box, paneled and painted black, in as found condition.
11         Large wooden dividers - 30 1/2" long.
12          "Stanley" #55 plane in wood carrying case, with 4 boxes of blades.
13          Large wooden tool box 24" high by 40" wide, in old red paint, with trays.
14         2 marking gauges: 1- "Winslow's" patent, English Ebony, unmarked.
15         Box lot of 5 European smooth planes, molding planes. Nicely decorated.   One is dated 1804.
16         Very large iron bound paneled tool box, 26" high by 40" approximately.
17         "Ohio Tool Co.", panel raising plane, 14 1/4" long.
18          Lignum Vitae large stump base for small anvil or hardy. 39" high.
19         2 levels: 1-Mahogany brass bound by "Zenith". Patented 1912. 23 3/4" long.  Plum level 24" long with leveling scale, interesting razed form.
20         Large wooden work bench with end vice. 6' 1/2" long. Handled storage compartment on bottom.  Pinned for easy disassembly, in old red paint.
21         "Stanley" #1 plane, 5". Replaced front knob, chipped tote and lever cap.
22         Small treadle lathe, bent wood. Construction, 30"   tall O.A. sculptural.
23         "Lester Improved", treadle jigsaw.
24         "Coopers" bit brace.
25         Box lot of 14 assorted miniature smooth planes, nosing plane, groove plane etc.
26         Lot of 2 gauges: "A.S.Granger" maker, Springfield, MA.   "SYERS" registered, marking gauge.
27         "F.H. Smith Manufacturing Co.", Chicago, patent June 1 1909, punch machine, foot powered.
28         Pair of large wooden dividers: 1-35" and the other 40".
29         Lot of 5 miniature planes 4 are chariot planes.
30         Large European Spelk plane (basket makers plane). Adjustable, carved and decorated, 19"long.
31         Crown molding plane, 4' 7/8" wide. By "William Blair & Co.".
32         Box lot of 3 planes & 3 routers.
33         1.25”" bead plane marked "E.W. Carpenter" Lancaster.
34         Box lot of 7 miniature planes, 2 primitive routers, primitive tri-square & hollow horn plane with secret compartment.
35        Coopers bent wood adjustable divider.
35a       Lot of 10 primitive smooth & mini planes.
36         14 1/4" long by 4 5/16" wide large skew blade fillister plane, "J. Ashburn" marked, zigzag border.
37         Lot of 3 sets of plow plane blades, 21 total.
38         Lot of 3 sets of plow plane Blades, 20 total.
39         Handled ebony& box wood plow plane #564. "Greenfield Tool Co.", Greenfield, Ma. 3 visible thread chips. One side  bracket appears to have been moused. Fine condition otherwise.
40        "Ohio Tool Co.", handled boxwood center wheel plow plane. 1 3/4" stripping on center, adjustable spindle end Otherwise good condition +.
41         Ebony & brass slide arm plow plane with brass trim unmarked. English.
42         Ebony Y brass ultimatum bit brace with ivory button marked, "Stevenson, N.A.W.Hood  & Co."
43         Brass framed "Sheffield" brace. "William Marples" sole manufacturer, by her majesty. Royal patent. Fruitwood handle, ebony knob & ivory ring.
44         Metal reciprocating breast drill, MCGS" limited metal with brass wash.
45         Lot of 3 planes, iron rabbit planer (throat chipped), low angled smooth plane with Sheffield blade wood, filled handle, small brass edge plane, marked "Barnsley".
45A      Box lot of 3 items: 1 brass router Marked "GR", 1 unusual brass wood & iron rabbeting plane and a handled tiger maple smooth plane with chrome front knob w/American flag embossed on.
46         WYE level with box marked "Charles G. King" made in Boston with tripod and surveyor's leveling rod. 
46a       Leveling rods and ranging poles for surveying.
47         Two surveyor's tripods.
48         Boxed Transit by "Gurley", Troy New York.
49         Lot of 3 decorative carvers’ mallets: 1- Boxwood, 1- mahogany and 1- rosewood with ivory handle.
50        Large chip carved 1837 rounding plane, with forged iron clamps, 5 1/4" wide, no blade.
51        Miniature mold board plow model, 21 1/2" long.
52        Box lot of 3 "Stanley" tools, #48 & 49 tongue & groove, #71 router.
53         12" rosewood, "Stratton", brass bound level.
54         2', 4-fold, ivory and German silver rule #85.
55         English 5" ebony and ivory button gauge and a "Slack & Howden" Liverpool rope caliper rule.
56         16" ebony & ivory navigation rule, marked "Elliot Bros.", Strand, London.
57         Boxed drafting set, extensive with one legged adj. Divider.
58         Pair of matching side rabbet planes. Iron, rosewood & brass construction.
59         Device for counting by "C.L. Nesmith", Washington, Illinois, patent 1868 & 1870. Wooden painted &  pin-striped, pretty.
60         Marble camp ax, "Marble Arms, Manufacturing Co.", Gladstone, Michigan, pat. 1898.
61         Goose wing ax 14 1/2" blade marked, "M.G."
62         Box lot of 5 axes: 1 goose wing, 1 mortising and 3 ancient hatchets.
63         "Stanley" #45 plow plane in original box. Complete set of cutters andinstruction booklet included.
64        "Sandusky Tool Co." Ohio, screw armed beech plow plane.
65         "G.W. Denison", Winthrop, CT, handled, rosewood screw armed plow plane.
66         Mahogany and brass "Windsor" beader, adjustable.
67         Spoon bit European breast drill.
68         Bowl adze, 7 1/2" blade.
69         Bowl adze, 9" blade.
70         Lot of 2 board rules. 1 marked "Smith & Phillips Manufacturing Co.", Chicago, USA. The other Square tapered unmarked, bone stop.
71         Box lot of name stamps and "Improved Figure Wheel" numbering hammer. Numbers 1/2" and 1 thru 9. Made by "U.S. Bottler's Supply Co.", Chicago.
72         Box lot of 4 chair makers braces with fixed graduated spoon bits.
73         Box lot of 3 wooden braces with removable bits.
74         3 wooden "Archemedian" drills & bits.
75         Box lot of 1-incomplete breast drill dated 1833, and a wooden and iron hand adze.
76         Box lot of 14 T-augers: spoon, twist & shell bits.
77         European floor plane, 4 1/2; long, initialed ".H".
78         Pair of European axes.
79        Wood sample cabinet dated 1911. Samples are carved like books. Eighty plus pieces.
80         Box lot of 3 European bit braces
81         Pair of brass & bronze bit braces, unmarked.
82         One brass & one iron egg-beater drills.
83         Buggy wrench bit brace and a "Duluth" quick adjustment wrench.
84        Box lot of bits, drills & mandrels, breast drill bib and 2 bow drill bows. 1- made of bone & 1-wood.
85         Lot of 8 assorted plumb bobs. Brass andiron.
86         Early screw arm plow plane. Decorated & dated "1764".
87         "Coopers" plow plane decorated & dated early 1800's.
88         Box lot of 5 sash planes- 3-adjustable,"TJ McMaster", & "Lindsay & Ohio Tool."
89        3- Race knives & saw mill wooden tally book.
90         7- molding planes, 5 moving fillisters and 2 complex molders.
91         3-adjustable sash planes, "Tuttle & Hubbard" Chicago, IL.
92         5-wooden bit braces.
93         Box lot of 3 pairs of trammel points, brass surface gauge, parallel rule etc.
94         Box lot of 15 fixed bit brace bits.
95         Stanley Miller's patent #44, replaced wood & fence. Gun metal body.
96         Box lot of 5 hand adzes.0
97         Pair of carpenter's slicks. One marked "Witherby" 3 1/2" the other 3".
98        Box lot of 2 planimeters. 1-rolling rule and beam spry and a souvenir mini trowel, "Charles B. Cook" Dec. 14, 1914 India.
99         Lot of violin makers forms, presses, molds, clamps, and patterns etc. many pieces.
100       "Wheelwright's" lathe, large 5'1/2 wheel. Used for turning wagon wheel hubs, 5' bed
101       "Victor" ,Seneca Falls. Manufacturing Co. NY, peddle jigsaw, with adjustable stool.
102       "WF & J Barnes" Rockford, Il, USA bicycle shaper or router with 90% japanning & pin stripping.
103       "Barnes" bicycle jigsaw.
104       Wooden work bench.
105       Very large book makers book press: labeled "Bertrand, Paris" & book makers plow.
106       Lot of 3 book presses 1-with pages.
107       Book binder's sewing frame.
108       Lot of assorted book binder's tools.
109       Lot of assorted book binders tools: embossing wheel, book mallet & stamps & a stencils.
110      Set of 3 clogger's knives.
111       Pair of large wooden clogs. 0
112       Box lot of wooden & leather shoes, skates, forms & "Duncan & Son" shoe machinery catalog.
113       Box lot of 10 assorted molding planes. "Jones, Phila.", "Howland, Ohio" & "Baldwin", etc.
114       Lot of coach makers routers & planes.
115       Lot of 3 panel gauges, ebony and exotic woods.
116       Box lot of scorps, shaves and adze
117       Box lot "Wilkenson" folding draw knife, router & 2 adjustable spoke shaves.
118       Box lot of 2 decorated plow planes. 1-carved tri-square. 1-carved stair saw.
119       Pair of double bit axes. Embossed "Our very Best & Black Raven".
120       Box lot of 4 bronze tool: 2-tongue & groove planes, router & a block plane
121       2 pair of Shopley coach maker's routers with 5 extra bits.
122       Box lot of Stanley tools #71 & 1/2, 2- #45, #12 etc.
123       Box lot of Stanley tools #11, #83 & #113
124       Box lot of Stanley #992-10" corner brace & a Bell System Yankee #2101 A 8" brace.
125       Box lot of small metal calipers & dividers, many
126       Box lot of 4 adjustable auger handles & bits.
127       "Miller's Falls", bench mounted drill press.
128       Lot of 3 handled slitting gauges.
129       Box lot of 9 assorted marking and mortise gauges.
130       Lot of 4 marking gauges, boxwood, ebony, rosewood & brass.
131       Lot of 4 English brass & wood marking gauges.
132       Lot of 4 English brass & wood marking gauges.
133       Lot of 3 pistol grip leather slitters. "Osborne, Souep", Newark, NJ. And unmarked.
134       Lot of 4 pistol grip leather slitters. "A.Crawford", "Osborne" & unmarked.
135       Lot of 3 pistol gripped leather slitters unmarked.
136       Lot of 4 bone handled Ferrier’s knives.
137      Lot of 4 bone handled Ferrier’s knives.
138      Box lot of 2 routers & 3 router shaves.
139       Lot of 2 "Sandusky Tool Co." planes. Plow plane in beech & an adjustable plow plane.
140       Box lot of 14 assorted spoke shaves & routers.
141       Boxed lot of 2 sighting levels, one with tripod and "Craigh Osborne", marching compass "Shorts & Mason" sighting pocket compass.
142       Lot of 4-steel measuring tapes. Three by "K & E" and I-Chicago steel tape co, with surveyor's pins & chains.
143       Box lot of 3 washer cutters, & 2 gimlets.
144       Box lot of 9 molding planes. New York makers.
145       Box lot of 5 complex molding planes. "AC Bartlett's, Ohio Planes", "Lyon McAinnell & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio", & 2 "Ohio Tool Co."
146       Box lot of chisels & turning tools
147       Box lot of leather tools: punches, slitters, edger's & 1 egg hammer etc.
148       Pair of adjustable weede compass  planes, "Gleave's Oldham St, Manchester" & "Sandusky Tool Co. Ohio"
149       Box lot of 3 iron bit braces 1-cage head, 1-Scotch & 1- spring bit & box of Irwin auger bits.
150       Stanley #55 combination plane with 55 blades in a craftsman's made box. Very complete.
151       Large blacksmith bellows in old red paint.
152       Machinist's tool box with contents.
153       Machinist's tool box with work station.
154      Pair of large wooden door clamps.
155       2 pair of large carpenter's clamps.
156       Pair of specialized wooden clamps.
157       Box lot of machinist's tools: taps, dyes, surface gauges, squares, rules & drawing instruments etc.
158       Lot of 5 hand adzes.
159       Lot of 3 items: 2 witchets & 1 wooden hand carved pulley.
160       Box lot of 11 iron pieces: cooper's dividers, double calipers, forging clamp, screwdriver, dibble etc.
161       Large Box lot of leather worker's tools 45+ pieces: markers, skivers, edger's, punches, slitters etc.
162       Box lot of cobblers' & leather workers tools: 6-Cobler's hammers, "Osborne" edger, leather knife etc.
163       Lot of 5 threading tools.
164       Ferrier’s tool cart with a cast iron nail carousel.
165       Lot of 4 froes: 3 cooper's & 1 knife froe.
166       Lot of 4 cooper's tools: side ax, adze, chamfer knife.
167       Lot of 7 cooper's mallets.
168       Lot of 4 cooper's crozes.
169       Large wooden cooper's divider
170       Lot of 4 cooper's tools, 2 crozes & 2 howells.
171       Lot of 3 mahogany tools, tooth router slide arm prying plane & skew bladed fillister plane.
172       Lot of 5 cooper's tools: sun plane, 3 crozes 1 howel.
173       Cooper's windlass.
174       Lot of 6 tools: 3 adzes, 2 scorps and hoop dog.
175      2 branding irons, 3 name stamping irons & a log marking hammer.
176      Lot of 6 mallets: cooper's carver's etc.
177       Box lot of cooper's tools: croze, side a, travelers, shaves, hoop driver etc.
178       Lot of 5 braces: 1 Sheffield and 4 fixed bit braces.
179       Lot of 5 travelers. Iron blacksmithed and manufactured.
179A     Cooper's barrel former. Adjustable floor model.
180      Large lot of 2 bung augers, croze, e cooper's shaves, hoop dogs etc.
181       Lot of 4 tooth routers & lignum vitae smooth plane.
182       2 screw arm plow planes 1 marked "White & Spear".
183       3 slide arm plough planes and 1 screw arm plough plane marked "John Bella Philad".
184       2 screw arm plough planes: 1 marked "Shiverick & Malcolm", 133 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn.
185       2 handled screw arm plow planes, "Sandusky Tool Co." & "Ohio Tool".
186       3 matching pairs of handled tongue & groove planes.
187       20 molding planes, hollows &  rounds.
188       Lot of 4 European decorated smooth planes.
189       Very large "Commander" mallet.
190       Lot of 4 ax heads: 1-marked "Lincoln Ax Co.", another marked with "Double Crossed scythe blades" twice.
191      Lot of 3 tools, mortising chisel, clap board slick & carpenter's slick.
192      Lot of clap board slick and a hewing ax.
193       Box lot of 3 metal plough planes: Stanley #45, #46 & a Seigley.
194      Tool box & contents: augers, planes, lathe tools, hardware bits & drills, loaded.
195       Pair of large panel saws.
196       2 hewing ax and a ship builders adze.
197       Large handled scorp with a large chopper.
198       Lot of 3 saws: 1 bent wood bow saw & 2 buck saws.
199       Lot of 3 buck saws, 1 decorated.
200       Stanley Universal #55 combinations original plane, labeled, slide topped wooden box with instructions. 4 boxes of blades, complete & fine.
201       Lot of 3 saws: Rams horn panel saw, panel saw and framing saw.
202       Lot of 3 frame saws: 2 with ram's horn nuts.
203       Lot of 3 saws: "Atkins" 2 man hack saw #4 & 2 early cord saws.
204       Box lot of 11 bow saws & buck saws & parts.
205       4 foot long brass grain thief (tester)
206       Cast iron crow foot scale "National Scale Co." Chicopee Falls Mass. Good pin stripping, brass pan, extra rod, but seems to be missing something.
207       Counter top wood & metal platform scale. 17" high. European, pretty construction, unmarked.
208       Box lot of misc. measures, dividers, squares & calipers.
209       Lot of 3 levels: "HM Pool" Easton, Mass 27" eagle touch mark, 28" "Stanley" bound mahogany level, 30" "Stratton Bro." Brass bound rosewood level.
210       Box lot of 5 plough planes: 4 screw arm 2 handled, "E & W Ring Co." Worhtington, Mass & "Sanduskey Tool Co."
211       Lot of 3 Sheffield type braces.
212       Box lot of 5 metal planes: Stanley #112 #40 #71, 18 misc. plough plane blades, marked Stanley tack hammer.
213       Box lot of 7 metal & wood filled craftsman made plough & groove planes.
214      Box lot of 20 assorted marking and mortise gauges.
215       Box lot of 9 assorted planes smooth tongue & groove and rabbet.
216      Box lot of 6 stair makers saws.
217      Box lot of 13 horn planes.
218       Lot of 14 tri-squares & bevel squares brass rosewood & iron.
219       Box lot of 20 assorted molding planes. Some complex.
220       Large box lot of 2 hoof makers, 4 scorps, 2 crozes, mallet, a small glue pot dated 1872, and a wooden grease box etc.
221       Box lot of assorted marking gauges, panel gauges & mortise gauges.
222       Box lot of 6 wooden planes including: pair of German tongue & groove planes, tiger maple side rabbet plane. Etc.
223       Box lot of assorted tools including: dibble, 2 pig snouters, fence stretcher, pumpkin cutter, rope bed wrench an automatic nailer etc.
224       Lot of 15 molding planes: hollows, beads, tongue and groove. Ohio & New York makers. I marked- "Mead Seldon & Co., Cincinnati Ohio".
225       Box lot of sharpening stones, bevels, squares, dividers a drill bit holder. Misc.
226       Box lot of 4 complex molding planes (need cleaning)
227       Box lot of 4 complex molding planes 2" and 3" wide (need cleaning)
228       Box lot of assorted marking mortise and panel gauges.
229       Box lot of 6 levels: "Stanley" & "Hooks Patton" and unmarked.
230       Lot of 2 axes and adze 1 marked "Lemone, France"
231       Box lot of planes: smooth, horn & groove,1 tooth router
232      Lot of 5 drills: "Millers Falls", breast drill, brass breast drill, "Rusby" patent and unmarked.
233       Box lot of 16 iron bit braces, including 1 cage head brace.
234       Lot of 6 molding planes: 2 bead planes & assorted.
235       Box lot of 5 tooth routers.
236       Box lot of 4 planes 2 fillisters, 1 toothing plane all by "D.R. Barton" with assorted plough plane blades by "D.R. Barton"
237       Box lot of 4: 1 maritime azimuth, 1 Oriental sighting level ,1 brass level &box of drill bits.
238       Lot of 3 complex molding planes: 2 double bladed (need cleaning)
239       Box of 7 iron bit braces & assorted bits.
240       Box lot of assorted iron tools, heater, horse shoe gauge, iron sighting device, cast iron mortar belaying pin and a brass horn that toots nicely.
241       5 complex molding planes, 2"-3" wide (need cleaning).
242       Box lot of 19 assorted planes including: 25" rabbet plane dated 1765, and assorted smooth planes.
243       Box lot of saws including: small iron bow saw, jigsaws fish saw & folding chain saw etc.
244       Lot of 3 plough planes & 1 nosing plane by "Ohio Tool Co.".
245       Lot of 6 assorted plough planes screw and wedge arm.
246       Box lot of 5 planes: 3 tongue & groove planes, 1 fillister plane 1 table joint plane.
247       Lot of 3 planes: 2 fillisters, 1-2 handled jack plane.
248       Lot of 5 Continental craftsman made complex molding planes.
249       Box lot of 7 planes & 1 gauge, including 2 screw arm plough planes, 2 grooving planes & 1 oak Continental grooving plane.
250       Box lot of 23 bench & molding planes, hollows, round, tongue & groove.
251       Box lot of 6 complex molding planes (need cleaning).
252       Lot of 6 molding planes 1 pr, tongue & groove, pair of skew handle rabbet plane by "Auburn Tool Co." 1 moving fillister plane "Casey Tool Co." Auburn NY.
253       Box lot of 20 assorted molding groove & rabbet planes & 1 gutter plane.
254      Pair of tamping tools.
255      Huge opportunity box lot includes: choppers, adzes, clamps, ax heads, hatchets, egg beater drill, hammers, shears, mallets, wrenches etc.
256       Box lot of assorted molding planes, wooden clamps & wooden pieces.
257       Box lot of 14 molding planes (need cleaning).
258       Pair of Cooper's long planes.
259       Box lot of 13 axes & adzes.
260       Lot of 7 tools: large panel saw, 2 turn screws, reaping hook, 2 long rules & a drafter's square.
261       Lot of wooden bench screws, 2 shoe makers lasts, brass pump & a barrel spigot etc.
262       Box lot of iron: many blacksmith tongs, bench shears, French paving hammer etc.
263      Box lot of assorted squares, calipers, rules, cant hook, saw, tripod etc.
264       Tool box with 25 assorted hand saws.
265       4 foot Mason's level in wooden case.
266       2 wooden jack planes and a wooden metal slicing machine marked "Arcadia Manu Co", Newark NY patented 1885 & 1891.
267       Leather worker's bench vise, lamped.
268       3 English molding planes: 1 halving with a cracked wedge, 1 beading and the other a grooving plane.