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21st October 2022, 08:49 AM #31
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It looks like you have a good answer, but if still in doubt try wiping a reasonably powerful magnet over the handle & you should feel a little bit of pull if there's any steel in there unless they used a non-ferrous metal like brass. I'd think it unlikely they used metal for a few reasons, one being cost, another extra weight...
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23rd October 2022, 08:27 AM #32
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Here is another which followed me home.
It is a guess on my part but I assume it pre-dates the 1961 catalogue.
One for you Paul - perhaps you will be able to date it.
Doesn't look like it has seen much - if any - use
It is 6 points
Tom
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s-l1600.jpg.... some old things are lovely
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23rd October 2022, 08:37 AM #33
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Nice looking etch. Saw has been well preserved but still lost a nut!
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23rd October 2022, 08:53 AM #34
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Tom
This is from 1939:
Spear and Jackson No.88P 1939 catalogue.jpg
I have no access ta any catalogues between 1939 and 1960 so I can't narrow it down any further. The 88P with the non break handle had it engraved into the handle like your saw, which looks very tidy incidentally. A 1930 catalogue has "Spearior" carved into the handle where yours says "non-break." My reading of the information is that the doweled handle was introduced in or about 1939.
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23rd October 2022, 09:07 AM #35
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Thanks Paul.
Older than I had thought. My dad was 17 in 1939
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1st November 2022, 01:04 PM #36
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This lovely saw cleaned up quickly, and it looks a treat. Not bad for an eighty year old saw.
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The only replacement handle hardware that I had is steel, not brass - but it will serve.
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....and cut ................... like a hot knife through butter.
I sincerely believe that this saw has done next to no work, and seems to have its original sharpen and set.
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1st November 2022, 02:08 PM #37
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Darn! You've just knocked hundreds of $$s off the value then....
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1st November 2022, 02:15 PM #38
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Hahahaha - for sure Originally Posted by IanW
Darn! You've just knocked hundreds of $$s off the value then....
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1st November 2022, 05:11 PM #39
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So that's what sawblades looked like when new!
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