Cataloguing Tools and Implements
Associations and Connections
Each record may be linked to any of a number of pieces of information,
some textual, some visual, including:
- Shape of tool. Drawing of significant shapes.
- Maker's marks.. Drawing or photo of significant
marks.
- Mark left by tool
- Documentation of tool's use (photo, drawing,
description, video).
- Examples of other tools that perform similar functions
- Examples of other tools used in the same trade
Including links to contemporary tool groupings (often illustrated).
- Photograph of the item
- Contemporary sales catalogue and similar external information
- Secondary reference works
- Patent or prototype
- History of development of tool over time
- Tools used together (mallet and chisel, etc.)
Examples
Beginning with a Hey's saw....
Find its prototype, Hey's own saws:
See its place in the development of skull saws:
See the tool in use:
(Image omitted for squeamishness)
Find a contemporary match in a catalogue:
Examine the marks left by the tool:
Beginning with a cooper's adze...
See the tool's use illustrated:
See a contemporary grouping of tools belonging
to that trade:
Beginning with a wooden plane...
See the patent drawing for its iron holding mechanism: