Founded in 1833, the Dover Stamping Co. was, by 1869, one of the leading American manufacturers and distributors of houseware goods and tinner s tools and machines. Included in this extensive catalog are a wide variety of products, ranging from plates, cake pans, molds, tea and coffee pots to graters, match safes, stove ornaments, and toys. Also sh[Read More]

A knife is the most basic tool, and the average adult uses a knife almost every day. Yet there are very few individually made knives in existence, and few people who know how to make knives. Step by Step Knifemaking, by master knifemaker David Boye, is widely regarded as the classic on the art of handcrafted knives. Thorough, clear, detailed inst[Read More]

Knives were vital to medieval man for a whole range of uses, from the domestic to the wider social context: Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian burials bear silent witness to this dependence in the many cases where knives are found among the grave-goods. Forged and hafted with great skill, sometimes with elaborately decorated scabbards, knives are of intrins[Read More]

With this book, readers will discover machine made marbles from the early 1900s to the 1930s that revolutionized the glass marble industry. Over 700 beautiful color photos display marbles produced by both Ohio-based companies, M. F. Christensen & Son Company and Christensen Agate Company. Among the examples displayed are bricks, cobras, guineas, op[Read More]