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Offline Lance

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Updated Bible of wood tool boxes
« on: January 12, 2019, 07:57:47 PM »
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.

Offline goodfellow

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Re: Updated Bible of wood tool boxes
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2019, 08:29:15 PM »
THAT is so cool -- thanks for posting this. It deserves a sticky!!

Offline twertsy

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Re: Updated Bible of wood tool boxes
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2019, 09:24:11 AM »
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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Re: Updated Bible of wood tool boxes
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2019, 01:07:52 PM »
beautiful work -- turn of the century tools and boxes were so elegant

Offline Uncle Buck

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Re: Updated Bible of wood tool boxes
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2020, 08:58:53 AM »
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.
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