Features: Plated walnut handle is slotted to hold one leg of a piviting steel square,
tightening thumbscrew.
Period of Manufacture:
1865 to 1892
Patents:
George A. Shelly's 4/5/1864 ( thumbscrew and slotted stock holding
piviting square)
Justus Traut's 9/4/1877
( locking lever )
Sizes:
4, 6, 8, 10, 12 inch
Construction:
Laquered walnut or rosewood, steel blade
Average price given by
Walter(1998):
$50 to $100
$150
to $300 ( 4 inch)
$100
to $250 (12 inch)
Type
1: $100 to $200
$200
to $450 ( 4 inch)
$150
to $300 (12 inch)
Notes: Type 1
does not have a slotted blade as shown. It has only a small hole for screw.
Early models will have Shelly's patent date stamped on the handle.
1888 Catalog Picture |
8 inch Type 2 |
