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Two Stairmaker's Saws
Lot: 210Sold for: $277$225Two Stairmaker's Saws, France, 19th century, both with wood handles, one carved in the profile of a fox, and marked "A Malatrait," the other marked "L. Petti," lg. 12 in. Provenance: The property more ...
Two Musical Instrument Maker's Mallets
Lot: 211Sold for: $185$150Two Musical Instrument Maker's Mallets, 19th century, both with turned heads and handles, lg. 6 3/4 and 10 1/2 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Eight Musical Instrument Maker's Tools
Lot: 212Sold for: $185$150Eight Musical Instrument Maker's Tools, Europe, 19th century, including two piano tuner's files, one with a carved handle, a diminutive beech-handled drill, and an octagonal threaded gauge. more ...
Four Musical Instrument Maker's Tools
Lot: 213Sold for: $154$125Four Musical Instrument Maker's Tools, 19th century, three iron-bladed augers, and a T-handled reamer with inset steel teeth, lg. 8 to 14 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Three Pianoforte Maker's Tools
Lot: 214Sold for: $215$175Three Pianoforte Maker's Tools, England, 19th century, a rosewood and steel double-headed tuning hammer, geared brass lever marked "S&S Patent," and a brass head and steel blade Rounder plane. more ...
Eight Violinmaker's and Miniature Planes
Lot: 215Sold for: $1,968$1,600Eight Violinmaker's and Miniature Planes, Europe, 19th century, set of three round soled brass violin planes with carved wood wedges, a Dutch whale-shaped wood plane, a miniature shoulder plane more ...
Two Brass-mounted Silversmith's Stakes and Two Hammers
Lot: 216Sold for: $338$275Two Brass-mounted Silversmith's Stakes and Two Hammers, United Kingdom, 19th century, stakes with wooden screw-mount bases, elmwood-handled hammer marked "Lond/Harr," hammer lg. 8 and 9 1/2 in. more ...
Collection of Watchmaker's Tools
Lot: 217Sold for: $123$100Collection of Watchmaker's Tools, 19th century, boxed set of pivots, screwdriver, vise, soldering lamps, and movement holders, twenty pieces total. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Brass and Steel Watchmaker's Rounding-up Tool
Lot: 218Sold for: $677$550Brass and Steel Watchmaker's Rounding-up Tool, Switzerland, 19th century, 5 1/2-in. dia. hand-wheel, mahogany crank knob, cutting arbor, and work holder, all on a wooden one-drawer base with more ...
Six Horologist's Hammers
Lot: 219Sold for: $277$225Six Horologist's Hammers, 19th century, wooden handles and various shape iron heads. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Eight Watchmaker's Tools
Lot: 220Sold for: $111$90Eight Watchmaker's Tools, 19th century, two brass screw plates, spring winder, burnishers, and others. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Nine Goldsmith's Burnishers
Lot: 221Sold for: $215$175Nine Goldsmith's Burnishers, 19th century, turned walnut handles with brass ferrules and agate tips, one marked on brass "The Warren-Parker Co. Clerkenwell London." Provenance: The property of more ...
Boxwood Cabinetmaker's Bow Saw
Lot: 222Sold for: $492$400Boxwood Cabinetmaker's Bow Saw, France, 19th century, boxwood frame with 10-in. throat and carved or rasped and textured grip with pinned toggle, overall lg. 17 1/2 in. Literature: L'outil et more ...
Five Compass Saws
Lot: 223UnsoldFive Compass Saws, Europe, 19th century, wooden handles and steel blades, one with folding blade, lg. 11 to 16 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
19th Century Marquetry Saw
Lot: 224Sold for: $185$15019th Century Marquetry Saw, probably England, iron frame with 12-in. deep throat, blade adjuster, and shaped walnut handle. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Large Cross-cut Saw
Lot: 225Sold for: $123$100Large Cross-cut Saw, Switzerland, 60-in. iron blade with simple decorated scrollwork, marked on both sides "IGT," and illegible date, possibly 1741. Provenance: The property of Laurent more ...
Dutch Carpenter's Saw
Lot: 226Sold for: $2,952$2,400Dutch Carpenter's Saw, 17th/18th century, 30-in. blade with hanging hole, fruitwood shaped and carved cane or pistol-grip handle with brass ferrule. Provenance: The property of Laurent more ...
Dutch Naval Carpenter's Saw
Lot: 227Sold for: $3,567$2,900Dutch Naval Carpenter's Saw, finely carved handle with a portrait of a Dutch trader, with a cane- or pistol-grip handle, steel ferrule, and blade, lg. 28 1/2 in. Literature: Codes & Symbols of more ...
Four Wood-handled Saws
Lot: 228Sold for: $123$100Four Wood-handled Saws, Europe, 18th/19th century, lg. 16 to 19 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Two Japanese Woodworking Saws
Lot: 229Sold for: $215$175Two Japanese Woodworking Saws, a double-edge pull saw with bamboo-wrapped handle, and a large wide-blade rip saw, lg. 21 to 31 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
18th Century Carved Rosewood Bow Saw
Lot: 230Sold for: $461$37518th Century Carved Rosewood Bow Saw, Europe, frame with floral carving and incised decoration, with engraved leaf blade mounts and flaring wing nuts, blade lg. 14 in. Provenance: The property of more ...
Early French Stone-cutting Saw
Lot: 231Sold for: $246$200Early French Stone-cutting Saw, tapered iron blade, (lacking handle),lg. 78 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Early French Stone-cutting Saw
Lot: 232Sold for: $246$200Early French Stone-cutting Saw, tapered iron blade with crooked handle, lg. 80 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
19th Century Compagnon Carpenter's Saw
Lot: 233Unsold19th Century Compagnon Carpenter's Saw, Bordeaux, France, carved and sculpted handle representing a rat dressed up as a Compagnon reads "Hugron, Bordeaux, A son ami Roux, Blaye Ste Luce 1869," with more ...
17th Century Eucharist Bread Iron
Lot: 234Sold for: $1,599$1,30017th Century Eucharist Bread Iron, France, scroll-tipped tapering handles terminating in a pair of iron plates, one side engraved with stylized hearts and a coat of arms of France and Navarre, the more ...
18th Century Eucharist Bread Iron
Lot: 235Sold for: $1,230$1,00018th Century Eucharist Bread Iron, United Kingdom, 7 3/4-in. dia. plates with one plate engraved with the symbol "Maria IHS," with a heart and bouquet of scrolling flowers, the other plate with a more ...
18th Century Eucharist Bread Iron
Lot: 236Unsold18th Century Eucharist Bread Iron, France, tapering handles terminating in a pair of iron plates with one side engraved with fleur-de-lis, Easter lamb holding a cross, and signed "FhL 1749," the more ...
18th Century Eucharist Bread Iron
Lot: 237Sold for: $1,476$1,20018th Century Eucharist Bread Iron, France, scroll-tipped tapering handles terminating in a pair of iron plates with one side engraved with sun, moon, five-branch star within a heart, and marked more ...
Fully Decorated Wrought Iron Fire Spit
Lot: 238Sold for: $185$150Fully Decorated Wrought Iron Fire Spit, France, 18th/19th century, ht. 20 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
17th Century Wrought Iron Trammel
Lot: 239Sold for: $1,968$1,60017th Century Wrought Iron Trammel, dated 1634, with applied floral mounts, and three hooks, ht. 40 in. Note: Reportedly from a castle in the Perche region of France. Provenance: The property more ...