Early Tools & Tool Collecting

Whether you collect antique hand tools or have a passion for machinists' tools we have the book for you. Learn about collecting wooden planes, or how to restore your antique hammer, or what your rule collection is worth in the books listed below. Or kick back and enjoy long-time tool collector and dealer, Herb Kean's stories of tool collecting adventures in his book Tool Tales!

• American Cooperage Machinery and Tools

• American Foot Power and Hand Power    Machinery

• American Lathe Builders: 1810-1910

• American Level Patents Illustrated and    Explained

• American Levels and Their Makers

• American Machinist's Tools

• American Marking Gages

• American Milling Machine Builders

• The American Patented Brace

• American Planer, Shaper & Slotter Builders

• American Steam Engine Builders, 1800-
   1900

• American Wrenchmakers, Revised 2nd Ed.

• Ancient Carpenters' Tools

• The Axe and Man

• Big Book of Pocket Knives

• Buying and Selling Antiques and Collectibles on    eBay

• Carriage and Wagon Makers' Machinery and    Tools

• Christopher Gabriel and the Tool Trade in
   18th Century London

• Collectible Hand Tools

• Collecting Antique Tools

• Dictionary of American Hand Tools

• Dictionary of Leather-Working Tools

• Dictionary of Woodworking Tools

• Directory of American Toolmakers CD-ROM

• A Field Guide to the Makers of American    Wooden Planes

• Grimshaw on Saws

• A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden    Planes, 4th Edition

• Henry Disston & Sons Handbook for    Lumbermen

• Keen Kutter Planes

• Lanterns That Lit Our World

• Lanterns That Lit Our World, Book Two

• More Makers of American Machinist's Tools

• A Museum of Early American Tools

• The Pattern Maker's Assistant

• Plane Talk

• Planemakers of Western Pennsylvania and    Environs

• A Price Guide to Antique Tools, 4th Edition

• Prices Realized on Rare Imprinted
   American Wooden Planes

• Registry of Maine Toolmakers

• Restoring Antique Tools

• A Source Book for Rule Collectors

• The Stanley Combination Plane

• The Stanley Little Big Book (Planes)

• The Stanley Little Big Book (Rules, Levels, & Other Tools)

• Tool Tales: Stories and Tips for the Antique       Tool Collector

• Tools: A Guide for Collectors, 2nd Ed.

• Tools Rare and Ingenious

• The Tools That Built America

• Vintage Woodworking Machinery

• Vintage Woodworking Machinery,
   Volume Two

• The Wooden Plane: Its History, Form &    Function

• Wooden Plow Planes