. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 30.—1568: The woodworker's shop from Hans Sachs, Eygentliche Beschrerbung Aller Stande . . mit Kunstreichen Figuren [by Jost Amman], Frankfurt, 1568. (Library of Congress.) {Continued from page igg) drawn in the 1630's by the Dutchman Jan Van Vhet (fig. 28), an etcher of Rembrandt's school at Leiden, and also the examples illustrated by Porzelius (fig. 29) and by Jost Amman (fig. 30). Compare them to Moxon's plate (fig. 31) from the Mechanick Exercises (3rd ed., 1703) and to the splendid drawing of the bench plane from Andre-Jacob Rou
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 30.—1568: The woodworker's shop from Hans Sachs, Eygentliche Beschrerbung Aller Stande . . mit Kunstreichen Figuren [by Jost Amman], Frankfurt, 1568. (Library of Congress.) {Continued from page igg) drawn in the 1630's by the Dutchman Jan Van Vhet (fig. 28), an etcher of Rembrandt's school at Leiden, and also the examples illustrated by Porzelius (fig. 29) and by Jost Amman (fig. 30). Compare them to Moxon's plate (fig. 31) from the Mechanick Exercises (3rd ed., 1703) and to the splendid drawing of the bench plane from Andre-Jacob Roubo's UArt dii menuisier, published in 1769 (fig. 32). In all of them, the rounded handle, or tote, and the fore-horn appear, characteristics of both European and English planes of the period before i 750. The similarity ends with the mass production of hand tools from the shops of the English toolmaking centers, principally Sheffield. An illustration from a pattern and design book of the Castle Hill Works, Sheffield, dating from the last quarter of the i8th century (fig. 33), shows the achieved, familiar form of the bench planes, as well as other tools. The use of this form in America is. ^\i <\n £ I wmm 1^. 6'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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