Help needed identifying old woodworking tools......please!

I hope I am wrong, but it will cost you more to list them than you will get
Sorry

Jack McH

 

I don't like art not unless it's of animals/nature.

Jack, you're probably right, but I have one watcher on them, so fingers crossed!

 

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:-) GOOD LUCK

Jack McH

 

LOL thanks for owning up

 

As for the 'bogey pickers' in the middle, are we sure they are wood working tools? My nana had some of these (exactly the same), and she wasn't into woodwork. She was however into knitting, mending, making rugs, and all things fabric related. I remember when I was little and we end up with them (among other things) after my nana passed away. My dad reckoned they were some gadget for poking through canvass, grab a thread, and pull it back through, though the its more than 30 years since I saw such an implement, and since my dad told me this. I could have remembered it wrong, and he could have been wrong anyway.

 

You know Dave I thought the same ! Its 50 years since I helped my mum make a rug .

 

This is a rug making tool, so not the same .

 

I remember my nana had one of them too

 

I've GOT one of them. and a latch hook rug I started severel years ago, that I've hardly done anything to

 

That is modern WOOL RUG MAKING TOOL

The ones in the picture are the old fashioned PROGGY MAT rug making tool

A hessian sack cloth, then any cloth usually wool is cut into half to one inch wide strips, The tool pokes the folded in half cloth through the sacking, then the second tool pulls the loop back over itself, (alomost identical to modern wool rug making only you have to make the holes and spaces yourself

Jack McAncientHammocklashing Proggy mat maker

 

I would also suggest keeping hold of the saw at the bottom and the dividers (top left). If you can clean up the dividers and find they are made by moore and wright or chesterman that would bump the price if you can sell them. The dividers look quite large which will also help. I doubt you will get much for them perhaps £3 each. Look at the large saw and see if it has a "brass back" the spine at the top of the blade. This puts back saws apart from the drosh for me, also look for the names spear and jackson , tysak or disston, if that's a disston stick it up on ebay, some of them go for £20 plus on ebay.

I should add I don't do much woodworking but I've been taught (by chippy other half) what separates a good tool from the drosh you see at boot sales ebay etc.

Keep the marking gauge if you don't have one already and it has it's pin in the shaft still, everyone should have at least one.

 

thanks Jane. if they dont sell this time i'll make hubby clean them up. he's the one who wants them sold, after all