Category: Antique and Vintage Tool Boxes
An antique tool box (also spelled toolbox) or tool chest is the fitting home for a set of treasured tools. In the early 20th century, t… Go to tool boxes
Category: Antique Tools and Hardware
The history of tools and hardware tells the story of two conflicting impulses. The first was the urge—or, more likely, the necessity—to… Go to tools and hardware
Category: Vintage Snap-on Tools
Like S-K and other American tool manufacturers, Snap-on was founded in 1920 to make wrenches, primarily for mechanics. The company was … Go to snap-on tools
Category: Antique and Vintage Hammers
If you could pick just one tool that’s sure to be in every tool box, whether it belongs to a novice do-it-yourselfer or a skilled carpe… Go to hammers
Category: Antique Chisels
The manufacture of wood chisels took off in the United States in the late 1800s, when tool companies such as Buck Brothers, James Swan,… Go to chisels
Category: Antique and Vintage Box Cameras
Box cameras rely on the most basic form of photographic technology, utilizing a sealed rectangular container with a fixed focus lens on… Go to box cameras
Category: Cigar Box Labels
As with many examples of vintage ephemera, cigar-box labels started to become commonplace in the middle of the 19th century, when chrom… Go to cigar box labels
Category: Vintage S-K Tools
With its roots going back to 1914, when Mason Sherman and Noah Klove founded the Sherman-Klove Company in Chicago, S-K Tools (also wide… Go to s-k tools
Category: Antique and Vintage Millers Falls Tools
The roots of Millers Falls Company tools go back to 1861, when Levi Gunn and Charles Amidon, who were working at the time for the Green… Go to millers falls
Category: Vintage Williams Tools
J. H. Williams & Co. was founded in 1882 in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York. The company's first patents, credited to Willia… Go to williams tools
Category: Vintage Bonney Tools
Founded in Philadelphia in 1877 as the Bonney Vise & Tool Works, the company that would become known as Bonney Forge & Tool Works began… Go to bonney tools
Category: Antique Sewing Boxes and Baskets
Before mass-produced clothing became affordable, sewing was a way of life for people around the globe. Most often, women were charged w… Go to sewing boxes and baskets
Category: Antique Snuff Boxes
Inhaling snuff, or snuffing, as it is also called, was first witnessed by a European in 1493, when Friar Ramón Pane, who had arrived in… Go to snuff boxes
Category: Vintage Lunch Boxes and Thermoses
The lunch box as we think of it today was born in 1935. That’s when a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, company called Geuder, Paeschke, and Frey l… Go to lunch boxes and thermoses
Category: Collectible Boxed Vinyl Record Sets
Vinyl records are packaged as a boxed set for two main reasons. In the first instance, the box is simply an elaborate container for mul… Go to boxed record sets
Category: Antique and Vintage Benches and Stools
Stools, generally defined as seats without backs, are among the earliest types of wooden furniture ever made; ancient Egyptians, for ex… Go to benches and stools
Category: Antique and Vintage Sewing Tools
While a vintage Singer, White, or Willcox & Gibbs sewing machine may be the most visible object in a sewer’s studio, most seamstresses … Go to sewing tools
Category: Vintage Jukeboxes
The first coin-operated phonograph made its debut at the Palais Royale in San Francisco in 1889. The brainchild of Louis Glass and Will… Go to jukeboxes
Category: Vintage Tackle Boxes
Vintage tackle boxes are an angler’s best friend, the key to keeping their favorite spinners, plugs, minnows, and other lures from gett… Go to tackle boxes
Category: Wax Packs and Trading Card Boxes
Wax packs, also called unopened packs, are collectible cards still in their original packaging. Similarly, trading-card boxes are unope… Go to wax packs and card packs
