A Collection of Miniature Antique Style Hand...

Tool Replicas in Shadow Boxes. A collection consisting of shadow box displays containing miniature replicas of 19th and early 20th-century industrial and agricultural hand tools. A larger display features approximately 45 miniature tools made of metal and wood. Included are various shovels, garden rakes, pickaxes, broadaxes, hatchets, hammers in ball-peen, claw, and mallet styles, wooden-bodied planes with metal blades, a frame saw, a crosscut saw, pliers, a try square, and dividers. One metal rake handle is clearly stamped with the name SANDERS. The try square features incised measurement markings along the edges, and a wooden mallet head contains incised characters, possibly an H or K. The second display contains a group of hand-carved wooden tools, including a pitchfork, various axes, h...