tissington saw, any info??
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stevebuk
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you need to put this in the hand tools section..
tobytools
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i did and was told maby someone in the saw forum would know, worth a try, thank anywaysstevebuk":1xlg6di1 said:
toby
toolsntat
Yep, I collect tools and tat
tobytools":3hyibezd said:
Toby this is the saw forum I was talking about :lol:
http://www.backsaw.net/index.php?option ... &Itemid=58
Andy
powertools
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The only thing I can tell you is that it is not a scroll saw.
tobytools
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toolsntat":c6835858 said:
Lol, im have a bad day
Thnx Andy gona do it now
A very good resource for finding out about old tool makers or sellers is old printed directories. The predecessors of 'Yellow Pages' these were published throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for most towns and were essential when commerce was largely conducted by sending letters. Most public libraries will have a set for their own area.
Conveniently for us, a digitisation project at the University of Leicester makes a large selection of directories available on-line, with their text passed through OCR to make it searchable.
http://www.historicaldirectories.org
The project is listed as one of the data sources used by the people at backsaw.net to track down makers and sellers of saws, so if they don't list it you probably won't find it, but as an example, this is what I found from a quick look.
It would be handy to know which Caledonian Road it was - a search on a map site such as streetmap.co.uk shows that there are about 30 at present. That said, the one in London is the most likely candidate as it is a large commercial street which goes through Islington, which used to be the sort of place woodworkers would have gone to shop.
The historical directories came up with one hit for a Tissington at 20 Caledonian Road, London. The 1882 Post Office directory lists George Tissington as a cutler so that could well be the place where your saw was sold:
The saw itself would most likely have been made in Sheffield; it was common practice to sell saws (and other tools) with a retailer's mark on rather than a manufacturer's. (Sometimes you find both.)
Looking further at the address rather than the name led me to this entry from the 1895 Post Office directory showing that by then the address was occupied by an ironmonger, George Dunn:
so we could deduce that 1894 would be the latest likely date for your saw. I've not found a start date for George Tissington in any earlier directory but saying 'probably 1880s' would be a reasonable statement.
I hope this helps!
Conveniently for us, a digitisation project at the University of Leicester makes a large selection of directories available on-line, with their text passed through OCR to make it searchable.
http://www.historicaldirectories.org
The project is listed as one of the data sources used by the people at backsaw.net to track down makers and sellers of saws, so if they don't list it you probably won't find it, but as an example, this is what I found from a quick look.
It would be handy to know which Caledonian Road it was - a search on a map site such as streetmap.co.uk shows that there are about 30 at present. That said, the one in London is the most likely candidate as it is a large commercial street which goes through Islington, which used to be the sort of place woodworkers would have gone to shop.
The historical directories came up with one hit for a Tissington at 20 Caledonian Road, London. The 1882 Post Office directory lists George Tissington as a cutler so that could well be the place where your saw was sold:
The saw itself would most likely have been made in Sheffield; it was common practice to sell saws (and other tools) with a retailer's mark on rather than a manufacturer's. (Sometimes you find both.)
Looking further at the address rather than the name led me to this entry from the 1895 Post Office directory showing that by then the address was occupied by an ironmonger, George Dunn:
so we could deduce that 1894 would be the latest likely date for your saw. I've not found a start date for George Tissington in any earlier directory but saying 'probably 1880s' would be a reasonable statement.
I hope this helps!
tobytools
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AndyT":125x6cla said:A very good resource for finding out about old tool makers or sellers is old printed directories. The predecessors of 'Yellow Pages' these were published throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for most towns and were essential when commerce was largely conducted by sending letters. Most public libraries will have a set for their own area.
Conveniently for us, a digitisation project at the University of Leicester makes a large selection of directories available on-line, with their text passed through OCR to make it searchable.
http://www.historicaldirectories.org
The project is listed as one of the data sources used by the people at backsaw.net to track down makers and sellers of saws, so if they don't list it you probably won't find it, but as an example, this is what I found from a quick look.
It would be handy to know which Caledonian Road it was - a search on a map site such as streetmap.co.uk shows that there are about 30 at present. That said, the one in London is the most likely candidate as it is a large commercial street which goes through Islington, which used to be the sort of place woodworkers would have gone to shop.
The historical directories came up with one hit for a Tissington at 20 Caledonian Road, London. The 1882 Post Office directory lists George Tissington as a cutler so that could well be the place where your saw was sold:
The saw itself would most likely have been made in Sheffield; it was common practice to sell saws (and other tools) with a retailer's mark on rather than a manufacturer's. (Sometimes you find both.)
Looking further at the address rather than the name led me to this entry from the 1895 Post Office directory showing that by then the address was occupied by an ironmonger, George Dunn:
so we could deduce that 1894 would be the latest likely date for your saw. I've not found a start date for George Tissington in any earlier directory but saying 'probably 1880s' would be a reasonable statement.
I hope this helps!
ANDY, you have done some home work, thank you. 1880 hey, thats very old for a saw, shame its a bit beaten up but i would be if i was that old lol, im waiting to get registered on that saw forum, had to email the main man as there has been dodgey people sending spam or something but i will still put it on and see what people say.
once again you a big help thumbs up i think
