Saws Collection

Tools used in carpentry and joinery
Various tools used in carpentry and joinery, including a vice, saws, chisels, a plane, pliers, a compass and a hammer

Scene in Petticoat Lane
Traders in Petticoat Lane selling an eclectic selection of tools-saws, chisels, plyers, locks and even a giant corkscrew are laid out on the street

TOOLS / SAWS / 1889
Various types of saw

Boys making a pigeon loft
School children at the school Abbotsholme building a pigeon loft. The school was set up by Mr George Allen. Who published a volume entitled Abbotsholme, 1889-99; or

Sawing Timber - India. Date: circa 1910s

Cooper hammering a metal hoop on a hogshead barrel. On the walls are tools such as saws, axe, spoke-shave, stock and bit, adze and auger

Advertisement, H O Strong, Guards for Circular Saws
Advertisement, H O Strong & Co, Norfolk Works, Bristol - Guards for Circular Saws. 19th century

17th century Mason
A mason saws a piece of stone for the construction of an ecclesiastical looking building. Date: 17th century

Paris - The Kitchens of the Lycee Montaigne, a famous French public secondary school. It is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, near the Jardin du Luxembourg, and was founded in the 1880s

Advertisement for Ross Frozen Foods -- father and son sawing a log in the back garden. 1959

Masonry Tools 18th C
Various tools used by builders in the 18th century : trowels, spades, saws, baskets, spades, wheelbarrows, hammers, etc. Date: Circa 1760

C D Monninger, London
C D Monninger, Clerkenwell Road, London, manufacturers of saws, files and other metal tools -- handwritten invoice. 1897

Old Saws and New Meanings, by Bairnsfather
Old Saws and New Meanings There is certainly a lot of truth in that Napoleonic maxim, " An army moves on its stomach" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, in The Bystander 1916

Barnet Industrial School - Carpenters Shop
Boys work with saws and planes in the Carpenters workshop at the Barnet Industrial School, Hertfordshire. Date: early 1900s

Parisian Street Hardware salesman - Paris, France. Date: circa 1930s

A large circular saw. Date: 1898

Canada - Hamilton Bay - Ice Harvest - Sawing ice sheet
Canada - Hamilton Bay, Ontario - Ice Harvest - Sawing ice sheet Date: 1912

Kingswood Reformatory Woodworking
Boys with saws, planes etc. in the carpentry workshop at the Kingswood Reformatory, near Bristol. Date: circa 1901

The Bairnsfather Jig-saw Puzzle ( BYSTANDER ) - Dear. we are staying at a Farm. The Chandos Jig-saws - Series A1. Puzzles & Games

Various surgical instruments
A woodcut depicting various surgical instruments. From: Mikrokosmographia: a description of the body of man, together with the controversies and figures thereto belonging. Date: 1616

Advert for Jigsaw puzzles, 1939
Advert for The London Electrotype Agency. Theres nothing like a puzzle ! To keep the children out of mischief... to amuse and entertain the convalescent

Chinese Fiddles - Two kinds of Saw Chine or Chinese fiddles are shown here. The first is a Saw Duang, identified by the jewels around one of th pegs

Obstetrical hook and crochet. Drawing shows two obstetrical instruments, one shown inside and outside its case has a hook on one end

Land Girls with Logs
Two Land Girls, part of the Womens Land Army during World War Two, sawing large felled trees into logs with manual saws. Date: early 1940s

Masonry Equipment 18th C
Equipment used by builders in the 18th century including cranes, saws, winches, scaffolding, etc. Date: Circa 1760

H. R Mopsey & Co Ironmongers
An advertisement for H.R Mopsey & Co Ironmongers(established 1840), of 26 and 28 High Street, Wandsworth. Saws, spades, tools and rollers can be seen in the window

Cutting ivory to make piano keys
A craftsman cuts (ethically harvested) ivory tusks in order to make piano keys

See-Saw by Susan Beatrice Pearse
Four children play together on a rudimentary see-saw, although one little girl seems to have fallen off one end

Sawing a large plank
Two carpenters use a large upright saw to split a large wooden plank. A colleague is signalling a break with the arrival of a cup of tea, whilst two boys look on with keen interest

Boys on See-Saw / C19Th
Two boys fashion a see-saw from a plank of wood and a fence

Russian Peasants
Russian peasants, old and young, equipped for some heavy-duty woodwork with sturdy hatchets and saws

Makeshift See-Saw
Its boys versus girls on this makeshift see-saw!

Victorian See-Saw
A group of Victorian children on a makeshift see-saw, fashioned from a tree trunk and a plank of wood

Gymnastics at School
Boys and girls from the Home and Colonial Infant School Grays Inn Lane, London, enjoy see-saws, swings, parallel bars and other apparatus

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