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	Clarence Blanchard, THE STANLEY LITTLE BIG BOOK FOR RULES AND OTHER STANLEY TOOLS 2007-2008. Ref: 9211 Published by Antique & Collectible Tools Inc. The complete guide to Stanley tool values with type information that can help identify many of the more valuable types. The information is up-to-date and reflects the current trends in collecting. A three-category pricing system gives a range of values that reflects the importance of condition when pricing Stanley tools--all in a small book that fits in your pocket and will be there when you need it. Hundreds of actual photos. Many models shown in full-color. Dozens of the more important types described with the features for quick on-the-spot identification. Realistic three-price system establishes actual value range based on condition. 120 x 95 mm. 292 pp. Colour and b&w photographs throughout. pb. Click image for larger picture. Price: £10.99


	Clarence Blanchard, THE STANLEY LITTLE BIG BOOK 2006. A Comprehensive Pocket Price Guide For Stanley Planes Ref: 0352 Published by Antique & Collectible Tools Inc. The complete guide to Stanley planes with values given in US $s. There is type information that can help identify many of the more valuable planes. The information is up-to-date (2006) and reflects the current trends in collecting. A three-category pricing system gives a range of values that reflects the importance of condition when pricing Stanley planes--all in a small book that fits in your pocket and will be there when you need it. Most models illustrated with actual plane photos and many showing the early-type planes. Dozens of the more important types are described for quick on-the-spot identification. Information is based on recent sales and 30 years of experience in the antique tool world. The author runs the prestigious Fine Tool Journal and also controls the Brown Tool Auctions in the USA. 120 x 95 mm. 230 pp. Illustrated throughout with 280 b&w photographs. pb. Click image to enlarge Price: £9.99


	Clarence Blanchard, WARMAN'S TOOLS FIELD GUIDE. Ref: 0354 Published by Krause Publications. An American pocket guide to every kind of tool from braces to wrenches including English and European tools where each example has its condition stated as well as price in $s. There are some 2000 listings of tools and the guide is profusely illustrated with colour photographs to help with on-the-spot appraisals. The publisher produces a variety of guides on various topics all under the name 'Warman's', and the name is therefore not specific to tools. 130 x 105 mm. 512 pp. 250 colour photographs. pb. Click image to enlarge Price: £10.99


	Crestin-Billet, COLLECTIBLE CORKSCREWS. Ref: 9322 Published by Flammarion. Covers old and new from the most straightforward pulling devices to incredibly ingenious nineteenth -century inventions. Each photograph is accompanied by a short text, translated from the French, explaining the significance of every item. The chapters are: Introduction; Pocket corkscrews; Simple corkscrews; Mechanical corkscrews; Lever corkscrews; Combination corkscrews; Figurative corkscrews; Bibliography. Superb photographs. 140 x 140 mm. 382 pp. 500 colour photographs. pb. Click image for further details. Price: £9.95


	Harrison, RECORD PLANES AND OTHER TOOLS. Ref: 9138 Published by Roy Arnold. A thoroughly researched account of the history of Record planes from the founding of the original company C & J Hampton in 1898 through the acquisition of the Preston List in the early 1930s to the position of Record Tools in 1998. Accompanying this is a reprint of the complete February 1938 No. 15 Catalogue, now considered the most representative and the peak of the pre-Second World War production. Dates for introduction of each plane after 1938 and various adaptations are all listed in great detail. The author has had full cooperation and approval of the firm in his researches. Illustrations of planes and parts appear throughout the text. Appropriate patent documents are included, also a guide to recent prices realized . 297 x 210 mm. 176 pp. Illustrated throughout with b&w line drawings and photographs. pb. Click image for further details. Price: £19.95


	Kean, A PRICE GUIDE TO ANTIQUE TOOLS. 3rd edition. Ref: 9205 Published by Astragal. This US guide to tools gives a picture of each tool and is an easy guide to value in $s. Illustrations of approximately 1000 different woodworking tools. There is a total of some 12000 prices taken from auctions. There is a new section on internet auctions with an explanation of how they work. Chapters on tools as antiques, wood identification, condition and buying. Over 400 American wooden planemakers are covered. 253 x 177 mm. 160 pp. Illustrated throughout. pb. Click image for further details. Price: £12.95


	Tom Lamond, MANUFACTURED AND PATENTED SPOKESHAVES & SIMILAR TOOLS. Ref: 9109 Published by the author. Virtually every make is illustrated and discussed, and there are profiles of makers and patentees. 100s of diagrams showing technical information and many advertisements. The definitive study of these tools in the USA, UK and Germany. 270 x 239 mm. 452 pp. 400 b&w and colour photographs and many drawings. hb. Click image to enlarge. Price: £65.00


	Tony Murland, MURLANDS ANTIQUE TOOL VALUE GUIDE 2007/2008. Ref: 9122 Published by Tony Murland. This is a heavily illustrated compendium of all manner of tools. It begins with a large section on Stanley tools (48pp.) with every type of tool listed and illustrated from the No. 1 plane to the zigzag rule. There follows: The History of Hole Making Tools with a large selection of brace framed braces from Marples and all others. Then tools by: Holtzapffel; Henley Optical; Hobbies; Mathieson; Millers Falls; Norris; Ohio Tool Co; Preston; Record; Sargent; and Spiers. There are sections on 'Tools as Art', The Development of the English Metal Plane, UK Patented Planes, US Patented Planes, The Union Tool Company, Wooden Planes both in the UK and USA with examples of the most desireable name stamps, and various other tool articles. All estimated prices are in £s except for US patented planes and US wooden planes which are in US $s. 210 x 150 mm. 232 pp. 100s of b&w illustrations, photographs, engravings and drawings. pb. Click image to enlarge. Price: £19.95


	Sandor Nagyszalanczy, TOOLS. Rare and Ingenious. Ref: 0186 Published by Taunton. This the second of the author's books on the best of tools showing superb photographs and is a celebration of the world's most amazing tools. Some 375 examples in colour and many drawings displaying the few hundred tools that are the cream from the top collections in the world including the major UK ones. They range from calipers mimicking dancing ballerinas to an elaborately carved breast drill in the shape of violin as well as superb examples of every conceivable type of plane. A wealth of historical detail and technical information is included ISBN 1561586560 230 x 255 mm. 216 pp. 375 colour photographs and numerous b&w drawings. Hardback. jacketed. Click image to enlarge Price: £29.95


	Pascal, COLLECTIBLE HAND TOOLS. Ref: 9321 Published by Flammarion. A good translation into English from the French text describing French and other hand tools in detail with brilliant colour photography by the author. Useful descriptons of hand tools applicable to any country of origin. The contents include: Introduction; Farming, Hand tools; Woodworking hand tools; Leatherworking tools; Construction tools: Amazing tools: Index and Bibliography. A useful introduction to the art of collecting. Superb colour illustrations. 140 x 140 mm. 380 pp. 100s of colour photographs. pb. Click image for further details. Price: £9.95


	Peretz, L'OUTIL et le COMPAGNON: The Tools and the Craftsman. Ref: 0092 Published by G/Camee. A magnificent collection of old French tools, beautifully photographed and printed in colour. Thorough treatment of planes: carved, musical instrument makers', coachmakers', dated ones and planes carved in the shape of shoes, a reclining woman and various fishes and animals. Measuring tools, squares, compasses and plumb bob levels. A variety of anvils and hammers, ceremonial tools and instruments. Axes, hatchets and adzes for many trades, tool boxes, saws and braces. Many of the tools are decorated and dated ISBN 286553099X 300 x 240 mm. 197pp. 130 illustrations in colour of which 40 are full page. Hardback. Jacketed. Click image to enlarge Price: £59.00


	Jane and Mark Rees, TOOLS: A Guide For Collectors. 2nd edition. Ref: 0074 Published by Roy Arnold. New material on the metal plane and American tools with an additional 16 pages of text. All price guides updated and all text reviewed.The first guide of its kind to be published on British tools. All types of tools listed under 80 categories. Advice on the why and how of collecting, buying and selling, cleaning, and presentation. Materials used in the making of tools, makers and trademarks, patents and registered designs. Above all, a wealth of fine illustrations, backed up by prices realized at auction and from other sources. An exercise in pricing is shown in the tables the authors give for pricing wooden planes. Collecting tips appear throughout. Hitherto unpublished information is given here. Something for every one from the wooden plane collector to those fancying piano adjusters' tools ISBN 090463812X 298 x 210 mm. 256 pp. 100s of b&w illustrations throughout. Paperback. Click image to enlarge Price: £15.95


	Erwin L Schaffer & Don McConnell, HAND-SAW MAKERS OF BRITAIN. Ref: 0072 Published by Osage Press. This is a check list of English and Scottish hand-saw maker containg some 1500 names and addresses and dates including no less than 18 Tyzacks. There are also 81 pages of saw-makers' advertisments ISBN 0965371972 255 x 155 mm. xii + 112 pp. 42 b&w engravings. Paperback. Click image for further information. Price: £13.95


	Jeffrey L. Rodengen, THE LEGEND OF STANLEY, 150 Years of the Stanley Works. Ref: 9018 Published by Write Stuff Sydicate. A thorough history of the company and its products through all its permutations and amalgamations, from Frederick Stanley's 1823 beginnings and the forming of the Stanley Works in 1852 through to the 1990s. Every aspect of the business is discussed. The last chapter is on the phenomenon of the Stanley collector. Profusely illustrated, showing the vast array of tools manufactured originally by Stanley and also the companies it acquired. 285 x 230 mm. xii + 192 pp. 100s of illustrations in colour and b&w photographs and drawings. hb. Jacketed. Click image to enlarge. Price: £29.95


	R. A . Salaman, DICTIONARY OF LEATHER-WORKING TOOLS, 1700 - 1950. Ref: 9016 Published by Astragal Press. Over 1100 tools are illustrated and discussed under various trades: bookbinder, furrier, the maker of boots and shoes, clogs, driving belts, gloves, handbags and purses, harness and saddles, hats, ball maker, coach trimmer, felt maker, pump-washer maker, last and boot tree, parchment and vellum, taxidermist, loriner and whip maker. There are chapters on manufacturers (tanner's and currier's tools) and on decoration. 253 x 178 mm. 400 pp. Illustrated throughout with line drawings. pb. Click image to enlarge. Price: £28.50


	R. A. Salaman, DICTIONARY OF WOODWORKING TOOLS c. 1700-1970 and Tools of Allied Trades. Ref: 9013 Published by Astragal. This is the 2nd edition, revised by Philip Walker, of what has become recognised as the definitive reference work on handtools used in the woodworking trades. Every known tool is described. Over 450 town and country workshops were visited in the compiling of this record. The purpose of each tool is explained and many of the original methods and sayings of tradesmen are also recorded. 245 x 187 mm. 546 pp. 740 line drawings. pb. Click image to enlarge. Price: £29.50


	Stanley Rule & Level Co., 1923 CATALOGUE No: 120. Ref: 9213 Published by R. K. Smith. The complete line of rules, levels, planes, spokeshaves, tool cabinets and other tools offered at this time. A listing of Stanley trademarks: 'Stanley', 'Bailey', 'Bed Rock', 'Victor', 'Defiance', 'Odd Jobs', 'Zig Zag', 'Hurwood', and 'Everlasting'. 287 x 220 mm. 151 pp. Illustrated throughout including 16 colour plates. hb. Click imagefor fither details. Price: £19.50


	Stanley R. & L., THE STANLEY CATALOG COLLECTION Volume I. Ref: 9035 This contains a complete reprint of the most important 19th century Stanley catalogues: 1855, 1859, 1867, 1870-71, 1879, 1888 and 1898. The seven catalogues are indexed and bound in one volume. 228 x 151 mm. 390 pp. Illustrated throughout. pb. Price: £16.95


	Stanley Rule & Level Co., THE STANLEY CATALOG COLLECTION Volume II. Ref: 9214 Published by Astragal. Reprints of 1872, 1874 (revised to 1876), 1884, 1887, and 1892 (revised to 1898) plus the Leonard Bailey Catalogs of 1876 and 1883. This volume and Vol I together contain 13 catalogue reprints covering the period 1853 -1898 and making a total of 800 pages. Published by Astragal. 230 x 151 mm. 416 pp. Illustrated throughout. pb. Click image for further details. Price: £16.95

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