Garage Gazette
TOOLS AND THE SHOP => ANTIQUE/COLLECTOR TOOLS/BOXES/HAND ONLY => Topic started by: Lance on January 12, 2019, 07:57:47 PM
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This is version 2 of the original Bible
https://sites.google.com/site/theguideforwoodmachinistchests/
If nothing else it's good reading on a cold night.
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THAT is so cool -- thanks for posting this. It deserves a sticky!!
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I recently found an old wood box with a suspicious Bonney tag under the lid, which most thought was put there some time later. However, I contacted Ted Johnson (owner of the above mentioned site) and he informed me that this box is a C. E. Jennings Model 01C manufactured between 1913-1915. Further, he sent me pics of another Jennings box just a bit later production with the same Bonney label. To me, it confirms my box is real! Here are some pics.
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beautiful work -- turn of the century tools and boxes were so elegant
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I would believe that an original Bonney box due to an old Popular Mechanics ad I saw for Bonney tools from the 1950s. The ad was full-page, color, and beautiful, like a portrait. I recall there being an artists rendering of that box as part of that picture. That said, that is the first box like that I have ever seen and I bet it was costly for the original owner back in the day.