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Description: | Catalogues - 2,600 trade catalogues of British hand tools, and over 1,000 more covering foreign tool firms, machine tools, steel, surgical instruments, cutlery, flatware and holloware. The catalogues date from the mid-19th century to the present day and are often working copies - annotated by buyers and salesmen. Many have accompanying price lists and revisions. There are 2,628 British hand tool catalogues, 278 cutlery catalogues, 84 steel catalogues, 214 machine tools catalogues, 840 foreign tool catalogues, 74 illustrated Sheffield lists.
3,000 photographs - black and white and coloured prints, slides, glass slides, negatives and framed pictures, not all listed, relate to the workshops and craftsmen of the early 20th century, showing work practices and buildings. An important group is the photographs used by manufacturers in preparing their catalogues. These show the changes in designs and link nicely to the development of the trade catalogues
Importance is in the number of part-finished items and the tools, which are valuable in understanding work and manufacturing processes. There are 00's of examples of finished tools, given more relevance when seen with the 'tools that made the tools'.The artefacts range from anvils to planes, knives, to silversmiths' tools, saws to precision measuring instruments. Many of the artefacts show the development of new ideas and tools, especially related to the DIY market. The beauty of woodworking tools, the home-made tools used by cutlers for specific jobs and the tools made for processes now no longer seen.
Photographs of the Thorpe Abbots Airfield during World War II and of those who served there. | Subjects: | Photographic equipment | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Common Road
Dickleburgh
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IP21 4PH | FAX: | 01624 648001 | Telephone: | 01379 740708 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:30 | Go to resource |
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