Books and DVDs on Antique Tools and Collecting
Well-made tools in general, and old tools specifically have great esthetic and intellectual appeal. Artisan Ideas is trying to put together an interesting selection of publications on antique tools, antique tool chests, antique locks and keys, and antique anvils for your enjoyment. If antique tools and tool collecting is an interest of yours, we hope you find something new and interesting here.
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If you know of a book, especially harder-to-find publications, that others like you may enjoy reading but which is not present here, please let us know. My name is Jim and I’m the owner of Artisan Ideas. Please email me directly at jblaho@ArtisanIdeas.com. THANKS!!
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Antique Locks and Keys: Their History, Uses and Mechanisms
0$58.952024 GOLD MEDAL WINNER IN HOBBIES AND CRAFTS – INDEPENDENT BOOK PUBLISHERS 2024 BOOK AWARDS CONTEST!!
Antique Locks and Keys covers the history of locks and keys, how their mechanisms developed over the centuries, and how each major art period affected their shape and decoration. Not only are there over one-thousand stunning high-resolution photos of European locks and keys from Roman times through the Industrial Revolution, all with dates, dimensions, and provenance, but the detailed photos and the author’s notes also allow us to examine and understand the workings of the locks’ internal mechanisms.
Hardcover, 290 pages, over 1,000 high-quality color photos, 12-1/4-in. x 9-1/4-in.
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The New Spruce Forge Manual of Locksmithing: A Blacksmith’s Guide to Simple Lock Mechanisms (Revised and Expanded)
2$44.95Silver Medal Winner in the HOBBY and CRAFT BOOKS category, 2023 IBPA Book Awards.
Hardcover, 304 pages, full color photos and illustrations.
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Locks and Keys throughout the Ages
0$32.50In this fascinating book, author Vincent Eras brings us on a grand tour of the development of locks from pre-historic to modern times and he also explains to us, in words and illustrations, how their mechanisms work.
Hardcover, 186 pages, over 280 b/w photos and designs
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Historic French Nails & Fittings by Chris How
0$29.50The book has 187 well illustrated pages with hundreds of photos and illustrations, and covers iron working, slitting, nail making and screw cutting with details of machinery and methods used and the different types of nails and fixings produced.
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The Mastermyr Find by Greta Arwidsson & Gosta Berg: a Viking Age Tool Chest from Gotland
0Original price was: $17.95.$11.67Current price is: $11.67.Viking Age Blacksmith and Carpenters Tools. 90 pages, Softcover, 32 pages of B&W photos and drawings.
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The Tool Chest of Benjamin Seaton: 1797
0$44.50This important publication describes a unique set of over 200 tools and also the chest (the best-preserved example of an 18th century cabinetmaker’s tool kit) which contains them, from the late eighteenth century, giving an extraordinary insight into the trade practices of the time.
Also included are measured drawings of many of the tools and of the chest itself.
Softcover, 8 1/4″ × 10 1/2″, 180 pages, illustrated.
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Antique Lock and Key Collectors’ Library (Three Book Set)
0Original price was: $123.95.$92.95Current price is: $92.95.The Antique Lock and Key Collectors’ Library (Three Book Set) includes the following three books: Antique Locks and Keyes, Locks and keyes Throughout the Ages and Persian Locks. All three books are Hardcover.
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Town-Country Old Tools: Locks, Keys & Closures with Prices by Jack P Wood
0Original price was: $16.95.$11.02Current price is: $11.02.Softcover, 288 pages, fully illustrated
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The Tools that Built America by Alex W. Bealer
0Original price was: $7.50.$6.75Current price is: $6.75.Softcover, 224 pages, fully illustrated
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Persian Locks: 1500 Years of Iranian Padlocks
0$32.50Persian Locks is a beautiful award-winning book detailing the lock-making traditions of Iran. With over 500 photos and illustrations, it will take you on a 1500 years lockmaking journey.
Hardcover, 144 pages, 10-inches x 8.5-inches, over 500 full color photos and drawings.
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The Warrington Chest: 1888
0$42.50This amazing chest was made by a Sheffield pattern maker, Ernest Warrington, when he was just 18 years old. The chest itself is discussed and drawings of the chest are included in the book. The marquetry is examined in detail and the techniques used are explained. The book is copiously illustrated with more than 100 colour illustrations, plus black and white illustrations, maps and drawings.
