oops, reply, reply all, one is more helpful to others in this situation.

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From: Kirk Eppler 
Date: Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [oldtools] Do you trammel?
To: Bill Ghio 


Bill

I did not check the big book pix first, but the text says the early ones
were quite ornate, so I hauled out my 1855 to 1898 catalog collection book
(Astragal Press), and yours look pretty close to the illustrations in 1879
to 1898, per below.  Later catalogs, like 1914 on, are quite plain, but the
same body shape

https://archive.org/details/StanleyCatalogue341926/page/n16/mode/1up

The smugmug link is pretty typical of the image for 1879 to 1898 catalogs

https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Measuring/i-dhLFVFJ

My copy of the big book (1996 2nd edition) shows three sets on page 632,
the top being plain and probably later, then the lower two (types 1 & 2)
more ornate, as per my link just above





On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 12:10 PM Bill Ghio via groups.io  wrote:

> Photos are here:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../albums/72157719983263196/with/5156
5531718/
>
> The last pic in the album is an early trammel set. I always thot they were
> Stanley, but looking at the drawing in Walter’s big book they appear to be
> different. I find no manuf. marks. Anybody recognize these? FYI, the short
> center shaft screwed into the beam is a pencil holder that can replace one
> of the points.
>


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Kirk Eppler in Half Moon Bay, CA, hating county bureaucracy right now.