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Jacob Haish's "Parallel barbed wire, Patented August 31, 1885

Jacob Haish's "Parallel barbed wire, Patented August 31, 1885
Date: August 31, 1885
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hayfork]

Hayfork with a rusty head with five tines and the handle case with wooden still in it from the broken handle. The tines curve up.
Date: 1885
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Hayfork]

Hayfork with a curved head with five tines. The pitch fork head is missing the metal case that the wooden handle is inserted into.
Date: 1885
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rusty L-shaped carpenter's square]

Rusty L-shaped carpenter's square with the vertical part longer and wider than the horizontal part. The square is marked off in inches: outer edge, 24 in. horizontally and 16 in. vertically. The inside is marked 22.5 in. horizontally and 14 in. vertically. Straight down the middle of the longer part it is marked starting at 1 ending with 21in. The other side of the square is the exact same except for one marking in the corner where the two parts meet. STANLEY ____00 Made in the USA _5 Some of the writing is obscured by rust.
Date: 1885
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Stanley Bailey No. 28 transitional fore plane]

Stanley Bailey No. 28 transitional fore plane. Has a beech wood stock with what looks similar to an iron plane screwed to the top. The front of the iron setting starts 5.2 cm from the face/sole and ends 6.2 cm before the heel. Between the iron and wood is a thin wooden board that has been cut into the shape of the iron piece. At the front of the iron is a mushroom shaped knob which is screwed on. The iron is not very wide here but gets wider towards the center where it takes on a rectangular shape. There is now a hole in the wood stock that is lined with iron. The front is straight but the back slopes upward so that the hole at the bottom is .7 cm X 6 cm and the top is 7.5 cm X 6 cm. Within this hole, from the back forward, is the frog, cutter, basic iron and lever cap. The lever cap has a diamond texture on the front. The frog has an adjustment screw. At this point the iron piece once again gets thinner but longer than the front. ON top of the iron is a cross between …
Date: 1885
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Wrench with a pointed end]

It has one wrench head. The handle starts out flat and then rounds out and forms a point at the very end.
Date: 1885
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History