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- OBJECT TYPE
- JOINER'S TRY
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1996.0053.001
- MANUFACTURER
- MARPLES, WILLIAM & SONS LTD.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Sheffield, England
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- .1-.2 STEEL BLADE; BRASS FACE PLATE; WOOD (EBONY?) STOCK
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 11.6 cm
- Width
- 8.9 cm
- Height
- 1.4 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Industrial Technology
- Category
- Tools-Hand
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- MARPLES
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Sheffield
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Saskatchewan
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
THIS COLLECTION OF TOOLS BELONGED TO A CARPENTER WHO EMIGRATED FROM ENGLAND IN 1910 & SETTLED IN MOOSE JAW, SASK./ THE TOOL CHEST & MOST OF THE TOOLS WERE BROUGHT WITH HIM FROM ENGLAND & USED TO BUILD HIS 1ST 2 HOUSES AS WELL AS SOME FURNITURE. - Function
-
USED FOR MARKING OUT, FOR TESTING THE ACCURACY OF WORKPIECES, AND FOR TESTING THE ANGLE OF STRUCTURES IN BUILDING WORK (REF.1, P.472) - Technical
-
EXAMPLES OF TRY-SQUARE MADE IN CLASSIC DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCTED OF QUALITY MATERIALS - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 'WM M[AR]PLES & SONS/ SHEFFIELD' STAMPED INTO STOCK; 'G.B. KIMBELL' STAMPED IN SEVERAL PLACES ON BOTH SIDES OF STOCK/.2 MFR'S MARKINGS STAMPED INTO STOCK VISIBLE BUT ILLEGIBLE - PRESUMABLY AS FOR.1; 'G.B. KIMBELL' STAMPED IN SEVERAL PLACES ON BOTH SIDES OF STOCK
- Missing
- NONE
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- T-SHAPED FACE PLATES FEATURE CURVING FORMS & 3-POINT TIPS
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MARPLES, WILLIAM & SONS LTD., Square, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1996.0053, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1996.0053.001/
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