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November Art & Antique Auction — Cordy's

Auction House:Cordy'sNumber of lots recorded:756
Sale Title:November Art & Antique AuctionLots with images:129
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:588
Date:5-Nov-2013
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A c.1900 whalebone and steel farrier's hoof knife, the tapered oval section handle with two pins holding the steel single edged blade with hooked end. Length 21.2 cm
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Seven various vintage steel bladed gouge chisels, various makers, turned wooden handles
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Six vintage gouge chisels, steel blades, mostly turned wooden handles, various makers
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Four vintage Marples gouge chisels
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Three Buck Bros., U.S.A., crank-neck pattern-maker's gouge chisels, wide mildly curved steel blades, brass fittings to the turned wooden handles
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Three vintage Mathieson patternmaker's gouges, curved steel blades, turned wooden handles
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Three vintage Buck Bros., U.S.A., pattern-maker's gouges, large and medium size, as above
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Two vintage chisels, includes one Buck Bros., U.S.A paring chisel and one Stanley socket type chisel
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Four vintage various makers mortice chisels, one without handle
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Two vintage W. Butcher mortice chisels, as new, have never been sharpened, without handles
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Three vintage paring chisels, various makers, turned wooden handles
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Seven vintage Marples chisels, all with maker's label to their turned wooden handles
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Three long screwdrivers, various makers, London type
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Three large screwdrivers, one with no handle
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Five screwdrivers similar to above
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A Stanley of London surveyor's chain, brass handles and tags/fittings, maker's name to handles
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A set of eight Addis carving chisels, seven with matching finely banded boxwood handles, in a fitted leather pouch
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Five shipwright's tools, includes a corking mallet and four various maker's corking chisels
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A boxed set of Stanley of London cabinet maker's 'French scroll' stencils, approximately 39 pieces within a long rectangular mahogany box, with maker's label to the lid interior, each scroll with maker's name and individual number
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Six cut-throat razors, strop and leather carry pouch, the razors of various makers, five boxed, the unrolling carry pouch with various compartments
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J. Rabone & Sons engineer's level, all steel, the level to top with swivelling cover above the steel foot plate, named. Length 20.3 cm
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J. Rabone & Sons engineer's level, larger than above, includes two smaller levels held within the base. Length 30.3 cm
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A Moore & Wright boxed engineer's level, swivelling cover to the top level, two smaller levels within the base. Length 31 cm, named
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Two named rosewood and brass levels; by 'Goodell-Pratt Co., U.S.A.' and 'A. Mathieson & Son'
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Three various levels: a W. Marples & Sons, rosewood with brass face plate; a Mathieson & Sons #2C, rosewood, brass face plate; and an unnamed all steel level
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Two foot/shoe size measurers, beech with adjustable sliding section, the shoe size scale to one face
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A gunpowder flask and two gun sights, the old tin canister with original lid and contents, one sight named W.J. Jeffery & Co., Rifle Makers, Patent No. 1326 (German silver); the other a B.S.A. in blued steel with various adjustments
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A good rosewood and brass John Rabone & Sons level, rounded ends, raised enclosed bubble to top, four screws holding the top plate to the rosewood body, screwed brass cap ends to the foot. Length 20.5 cm
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A boxed Sterratt & Co., U.S.A., nail punch set, the eight punches in fitted cylindrical lidded case, each named
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An expanding pantograph, craftsman made from boxwood rulers with brass fittings
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Two rosewood steel and brass squares: one a mitre square; the other a small standard type, decorative brass fittings
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A collection of thread maker's tools, 38 in total, mostly Mathieson, the steel ends with various fittings, turned wooden handles
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A 19th century American buttonhole cutter, steel clamp action with brass fittings, named and with patent date 1865
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A 19th century Preston & Sons tremmells tool, all brass with tapered steel pins measuring 1¼ inches to the adjustable top mounted to a plain brass bar
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A 19th century tremmells brass seven wood slides, the steel pins with adjustable brass decorative fittings with original keepers measuring 4 inches, mounted to the wooden bar
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Two all steel tremmells, no maker's name, marked with patent date FebY. 1880. Length 2¾ inches
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A 19th century steel and mahogany Scottish brace and 22 various bits
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A c.1900 'Stencil Outfit' set, the brass cut-out alphabetical and numerical stencils held in original beech box with detailing to the sliding lid
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Nine various 'Premier Dental Germany' palm handled chisels, each numbered, smaller sizes
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Eighteen 19th century various carver's chisels for fine detailed work, all steel, various makers including many by Buck, Addis toolmaker, etc., held in an oak box with double hinged lid
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Three 'Pickavan' thread restoring tools, imperial and metric, together with two bearing chasers
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Four various tools: a 19th century steel brace with mahogany head, some parts absent; a hand forged steel caliper, illegibly named; a push drill by Goodall Pratt; and a fitted box of drill bits of stepped form with sliding lid enclosing various bits
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Four various hand tools, includes: two rosewood handled erasers; a rosewood handled awl, and a patternmaker's tool
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A collection of six brass handled combination small (jeweller's) screwdriver sets, the screw threaded butts revealing interchangeable heads
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Two various tools: a Stanley No. 22 Dowel sharpener and a Stanley brace depth stop
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Two early 20th century pad saws, one marked W. Marples & Sons with boxwood handle, the other beech
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Two jeweller's saws, one named Saggerson, the other named 'ABT', both with turned wooden handles
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An Archimedian drill, unnamed, mahogany and brass fittings to the wrythen turned steel shaft
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A Stanley #103 block plane
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A Millers Falls #17 block plane with adjustable mouth
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A Stanley #90J bullnose plane
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Two Stanley planes; a #90 complete and nickel plated, and a #92 nickel plated with some faults
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A Stanley block plane, Pat. 2/10 - 1913, adjustable mouth, with knuckle cap/iron
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Two small Stanley planes; 1 x #99 and 1 x #98 with patent date Jan. 29/1895, most nickel plate remaining
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A Stanley #72½ chamfer plane, complete with bullnose and beading attachments, most japanning absent
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A Stanley #9 type 2 cabinetmaker's block plane. A rare plane in good original condition
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Siegley patented plow plane, type 7, in good original condition, short rods only, most japanning remaining, a good example
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A Stanley #130 block plane, patented Oct. 1883 - Jan. 20 1883
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A Stanley #12 scraper plane, rosewood handles, most black japanning remaining
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A Stanley #10¼ rabbet plane, patented 8-23-10, most black japanning remaining
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An early Stanley #45 combination plane, complete with assorted cutters, type 2
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A 19th century steel and mahogany infill bullnose plane
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A 19th century rosewood infill steel shoulder plane, previous owner's stamp to side 'Alex Penman'
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A 19th century rosewood infill gunmetal shoulder plane
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A 19th century rosewood 'Spiers' infill smoother plain, bun end, steel body, gun metal named keeper
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A 19th century rosewood infill steel shoulder plane, previous owner's name marked to top 'W.T. McConchie'
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A 19th century rosewood infill steel bodied Jack plane
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A 19th century rosewood infill Spiers joiner plane, steel body, gunmetal keeper and adjusting screw, named Spiers
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A 19th century mahogany infill jack plane, steel body
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A 19th century rosewood infill W. Marples smoother plane, steel body, named gunmetal keeper
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A 19th century mahogany infill smoother plane, steel body, brass keeper and screw
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A 19th century Slater rosewood infill smoothing plane, steel body, named 'gunmetal keeper'
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A 19th century G. Miller rosewood infill plain, gunmetal (brass) body with steel foot
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A rare Robt. Marples beech and rosewood headed brace, together with 27 mostly named Robt. Marples bits, the brace inset with brass plates and button, good condition, complete with green wooden bit holder
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A set of Russell Jennings U.S.A boxed 'Spur Auger bits', the oak three tier box with hinged lid enclosing 14 various named bits, maker's label with full details to interior lid
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Three bevel gauges, includes: a Stanley No. 25 - 7½ inches; a Stanley 'Pat 3-16-97', 12 inches length and a Diston 8 inches, all with rosewood handles and brass fittings
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A Hibget Sohne screw box with tap and keeper
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A Bleckmaan ¾ inches screw box, with tap
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Henry Boker 7/8 inches screw box with keeper and tap
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A ¾ inches screw box by H. Boker, with tap and keeper
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A Record #077A bullnose plane
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A Record #076 bullnose plane
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A Cooper's adze, illegibly named hand forged steel blade and hammer end, wooden handle
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A bowl adze, hand forged 2½ inches steel blade, plain wooden handle
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An 18th century bowl adze, the wide tapered illegibly named steel blade of curved form, 7 inches blade, elm handle
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A Cooper's adze, illegibly named hand forged blade and hammer ends, tapered wooden handle
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A 19th century J. Beatty 2½ inches hand forged large chisel, maker's name to blade, turned oak handle to the socket fitting. Length 64 cm
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A late 18th century/early 19th century Pennsylvanian German hand forged goose wing axe, the blade with 14½ inches cutting edge, stamped with maker's name, illegible, original hickory handle, left handed
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A 19th century J. Clark 3½ inches hand forged steel auger long bit, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. An impressive example in fine condition. Length 97 cm
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A 19th century hand forged bark spud (bark remover), the steel blade with a long socket fitting to the turned oak handle. Length 81 cm
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Three rosewood and brass fitted mortice gauges
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Four brass fitted mortice gauges, includes two rosewood
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Five various gauges, includes; two rosewood and ebony brass fitted slitter gauges and three boxwood mortice gauges
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Four gauges, includes: a brass mortice gauge with ebony and brass slide and three others
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Three wooden planes, includes: a Stanley smoothing plane with wooden bottom, an English beech rebate plane and a Mathieson rebate plain with original maker's label
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A Stanley plane and a wooden 'D' router, the plane with wooden bottom, the beech router of scrolling 'D' form with metal fittings
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Two old wooden tools, includes; a Mathieson Coopers croze, beech, named, half oval form with steel arc and blade and a rod plane, the wooden clamps with central rod recess, the blade marked 'Robt. Sorby, Sheffield
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'The Indianapolis Kraut Cutter' mandolin, the panelled bed with steel blades with fitted shuttle named and dated 1905
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Two lock mortice chisels, one named by the maker W. Marples & Sons, Sheffield, with beech handle, the other with elm handle. Length 52.5 cm and 49.5 cm
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Two mahogany vintage levels with brass fittings; one by Stratton Brothers, Greenfield, patented 1872, the other by Stanley 'No. 3' dated 1906-1908
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