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1st February 2018, 01:06 PM #46
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More mushrooms popping and another gap filled. No medallion to date this saw by but
examination of the innards reveals that it has Glover patent screws with the narrower slots characteristic of 1888-1896 production.
The toothline is 6-1/16" long and the plate is 0.020" thick with no taper grinding toothed 16 PPI.
Thus, it looks like Disston made open handle dovetail saws more or less continuously under its' own mark from the 1850's (see Disstonian saw pictures) up to the Golden Era when the No. 70 open handled dovetail saws were introduced. The only date range yet to be documented is the 1877-1878. I need to find a pre-1860 to fill in my collection as well.
Why didn't they advertise or catalogue them? The Jackson OH dovetails span a comparable date range and they were catalogued. Not like Disston to be shy about a product.Innovations are those useful things that, by dint of chance, manage to survive the stupidity and destructive tendencies inherent in human nature.
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17th January 2019, 11:30 AM #47
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Open handle Disston dovetail saws family photo
I've been squirreling away more of these. This is the flock at the moment.
Of particular interest is this one.
The blade is etched 'Born Brothers, Chicago..., 93 and 95 W. Randolph St.". The information I've found suggests that the Born Brothers concern operated at these numbers on W. Randolph street in Chicago during the pre-WW1 era. (https://books.google.com/books?id=fP...o%20il&f=false)
A post WW1 citation (1921) suggests that they moved to 600 W. Randolph. (https://books.google.com/books?id=3D...0tools&f=false)
This saw may be one that overlapped with some of the earlier No. 70 dovetail saws pictured above. Note the brass back.
It appears likely that Disston made open handled dovetail saws under the Disston brand for roughly 70 years and for some reason neglected to include them in the catalogs that we have today.Innovations are those useful things that, by dint of chance, manage to survive the stupidity and destructive tendencies inherent in human nature.
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17th January 2019, 02:14 PM #48
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I picked these up from catalogues. It may be of some help dating those without medallions. 1914, 1918, 1934 & 1945 (edit: pix loaded in reverse order!!):
Pix will be thumbnails at the foot.
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