The Tool Chest of Benjamin Seaton - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0947673210 ISBN 13: 9780947673215

Publisher: Tool & Trades History Society, 2012

Synopsis

The Seaton Chest, now in the Guildhall Museum, Rochester Kent, is the finest and, most complete surviving example of an 18th century cabinet-makers kit in Britain, if not the world. The tools, which are generally in little or unused condition, were brought in 1796 by Joseph Seaton, cabinet -maker of Chatham, Kent for his 21-year-old son, Benjamin. They were supplied by Christopher Gabriel and Sons, a leading tool dealer and plane-maker of Banner Street, London. Benjamin made a fine tool chest for his new tools and recorded their cost in an inventory which survives today. In the 1st edition of this publication, written by a group of Tools and Trades History Society members, the chest and its tools, many of which will be unfamiliar to today's craftsman, are described and set in context. This 2nd edition, written by both TATHS members and the staff of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia, includes a considerable amount of new information about the tools and the chest and also a description of the making of a replica chest for Colonial Williamsburg.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tool & Trades History Society
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0947673210
• ISBN 13: 9780947673215
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 179