Rhyolith
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I have one PDF of a Catalog from 1926 (no idea where I got that from!), but otherwise no way of dating these tools. Does anyone know of any more online resources/catalogs?
Dating North Brothers "Yankee" Stuff?
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This ought to be an easy question but there's a bit of a technical hitch.
One of the best collections of old scanned catalogues used to be at the website of Rose Antique Tools, but when that business closed down, the future of the library was uncertain.
As I understand it, most of the files were copied to and should now be available from the Alaska Woodworker site at http://www.alaskawoodworker.com/old-too ... d-manuals/ - however, when I looked there just now, none of the downloads seemed to be working. Maybe that's a current issue at the Alaska site.
I also looked at the site captures of the Rose collection in the Intertnet Archive eg here
https://web.archive.org/web/20131101152 ... id220.html
which is fine for lots of things, but has no entries for North Bros/Yankee.
That's especially odd, as in my collection of downloaded catalogues, I have a little Yankee catalogue of 1931, which is watermarked as having come from Rose Tools!
Perhaps we could do a swap?
One of the best collections of old scanned catalogues used to be at the website of Rose Antique Tools, but when that business closed down, the future of the library was uncertain.
As I understand it, most of the files were copied to and should now be available from the Alaska Woodworker site at http://www.alaskawoodworker.com/old-too ... d-manuals/ - however, when I looked there just now, none of the downloads seemed to be working. Maybe that's a current issue at the Alaska site.
I also looked at the site captures of the Rose collection in the Intertnet Archive eg here
https://web.archive.org/web/20131101152 ... id220.html
which is fine for lots of things, but has no entries for North Bros/Yankee.
That's especially odd, as in my collection of downloaded catalogues, I have a little Yankee catalogue of 1931, which is watermarked as having come from Rose Tools!
Perhaps we could do a swap?
This ought to be simple...
This site also hosts lots of the Rose Antique catalogues:
http://www.blackburntools.com/articles/ ... index.html
but the link to the Yankee catalogue leads to a duff file - 0 bytes.
I wonder if the catalogue you have is actually this same one? It's 25 pages in the pdf, and is of a thin consumer pamphlet, showing two pages of the original on each page of the scan. The inside front cover says it's the 2nd edition dated 1931. File size is about 2713 kb.
This site also hosts lots of the Rose Antique catalogues:
http://www.blackburntools.com/articles/ ... index.html
but the link to the Yankee catalogue leads to a duff file - 0 bytes.
I wonder if the catalogue you have is actually this same one? It's 25 pages in the pdf, and is of a thin consumer pamphlet, showing two pages of the original on each page of the scan. The inside front cover says it's the 2nd edition dated 1931. File size is about 2713 kb.
Me again. I now deduce that your 1926 leaflet came from Wiktor Kuc's excellent site here:
http://library.wkfinetools.com/02_Catal ... thBros.asp
He also has a small flyer from the year before which you need.
http://library.wkfinetools.com/02_Catal ... thBros.asp
I should have thought of that site first - it's one I often visit - but in this case it was listed in the sources of this article which I think you will like - are you in fact the author?
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/12/ ... hines.html
(I assume you already know about the patent-based dating clues here
http://www.georgesbasement.com/yankeedr ... ntlist.htm and here
http://www.georgesbasement.com/galootsa ... Braces.htm )
http://library.wkfinetools.com/02_Catal ... thBros.asp
He also has a small flyer from the year before which you need.
http://library.wkfinetools.com/02_Catal ... thBros.asp
I should have thought of that site first - it's one I often visit - but in this case it was listed in the sources of this article which I think you will like - are you in fact the author?
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/12/ ... hines.html
(I assume you already know about the patent-based dating clues here
http://www.georgesbasement.com/yankeedr ... ntlist.htm and here
http://www.georgesbasement.com/galootsa ... Braces.htm )
Rhyolith
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Ah yes! Thats the one I have!
Leaflet helps, a lot of my drills are on there!
No I didn't wright that article, but it was one of the things that got me interested in drills in the first place
Obviously you have access to that 1926 catalog now. Would you be able to send me that 1931 one you were talking about?
Leaflet helps, a lot of my drills are on there!
No I didn't wright that article, but it was one of the things that got me interested in drills in the first place
Obviously you have access to that 1926 catalog now. Would you be able to send me that 1931 one you were talking about?
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