Mystery tool
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Mintgrun
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If that patent date is Dec 2, 1868, that might just be a Canadian single or double brace saw stretcher.
Datamp doesn't have an image, so if that's what it turns out to be, you could share yours.
Tom
XC Patent: 2,884 - Buck saw handle, to be called The Canadian single or double Brace Saw Stretcher
XC patent 2,884 Buck saw handle, to be called The Canadian single or double Brace Saw Stretcher was issued to Robert Highet of Cobourg, ON Canada. It was granted on 12/02/1868. XC patents are Canadian patents issued between 1824 and 1869.
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Datamp doesn't have an image, so if that's what it turns out to be, you could share yours.
Tom
RTM
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This is what I have always called a Buck Saw
The wooden frame that hold the lumber up is apparently a Wooden Saw Buck in the above catalog.
If you can figure out a way to attach that to this, @Mintgrun might have something there.
Disston Saws Tools Files Knives Steel : Catalog No. 92 : Henry Disston & Sons, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
122 p., illus., 26.7 cm, trade catalog
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The wooden frame that hold the lumber up is apparently a Wooden Saw Buck in the above catalog.
If you can figure out a way to attach that to this, @Mintgrun might have something there.
RTM
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Just to make it easy, their period literature doesn't use the XC., slightly delayed at 1882
Then, just to make it easier, they reused numbers
And then, the third series seems to be what is in Google Patents, because CA2884 is from 1873, which is for a table sauce.
CA100 is the lowest number I can find, from 1873, any number lower gives thousands of results
Then, just to make it easier, they reused numbers
And then, the third series seems to be what is in Google Patents, because CA2884 is from 1873, which is for a table sauce.
CA100 is the lowest number I can find, from 1873, any number lower gives thousands of results
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Rccrawlerguy
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I dont know how it would be used as a sawbuck like mentioned. When I first saw it, I was immediately thinking something like a wire fence or barb wire stretcher. ( I have never seen or used one by the way) just looks like it would be used for something like that. I used google image search and came up with this.
Hmmm...
Hmmm...
Rccrawlerguy
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Or I guess I should have said sawset.
RTM
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And trying to search for this patent
In google patents
lemoine ca quebec fire
Produces two patents from 2017 and 2022
Oh well, since it's not a saw stretcher, I am giving up now.
In google patents
lemoine ca quebec fire
Produces two patents from 2017 and 2022
Oh well, since it's not a saw stretcher, I am giving up now.
RTM
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I see Dec 25 8
how does this one look? the only fence stretcher on Dec 25
US Patent: 395,146 - Wire Stretcher
US patent 395,146 Wire Stretcher was issued to Charles E. Hunt of Harvard, IL and Nathan B. Helm of Harvard, IL and Henry L. Ferris of Harvard, IL. It was granted on 12/25/1888. One of these appreared in a Martin Donnelly auction
datamp.org
ETA: not in DATAMP
on Google Patents
Used the wildcard search on DATAMP, and yes, Dec 25 was a valid date until 1894
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four.cycle
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Hunt / Hunt, Helm, & Ferris Co. , Harvard, IL / est. 1883 as Hunt, Helm, & Ferris, renamed Starline 1931, acquired Federal Malleable Company of Wisconsin 1943, currently part of Farm Systems Division of Chromalloy Farm and Industrial Equipment Co., Harvard, IL / wire-stretcher, spring hinge / patent 395146 Dec 25 1888 Charles E. Hunt and Nathan B. Helm and Henry L. Ferris & 414201 Nov 5 1889 Henry L. Ferris / https://archives.lib.niu.edu/repositories/2/resources/1093 / https://haytrolleyheaven.com/manufacturer/hunt-helm-ferris/ / see also "Starline" /
more information on Charles E. Hunt and family members here
corrected 09/03/25 12:50 PDT
more information on Charles E. Hunt and family members here
corrected 09/03/25 12:50 PDT
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Old Man Roger
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Looks like an art project made out of saw sets. 
RTM
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Not sure if auto correct is biting you, but maybe it's Ferris not Harris?
Hunt, Helm, Ferris – Hay Trolley Heaven
haytrolleyheaven.com
four.cycle
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Not sure what's wrong with my eyeballs this morning... that's not the only one I got mixed up on. Thanks.
Hunt / Hunt, Helm, & Ferris Co. , Harvard, IL / est. 1883 as Hunt, Helm, & Ferris, renamed Starline 1931, acquired Federal Malleable Company of Wisconsin 1943, currently part of Farm Systems Division of Chromalloy Farm and Industrial Equipment Co., Harvard, IL / wire-stretcher, spring hinge / patent 395146 Dec 25 1888 Charles E. Hunt and Nathan B. Helm and Henry L. Ferris & 414201 Nov 5 1889 Henry L. Ferris / https://archives.lib.niu.edu/repositories/2/resources/1093 / https://haytrolleyheaven.com/manufacturer/hunt-helm-ferris/ / see also "Starline" /
Hunt / Hunt, Helm, & Ferris Co. , Harvard, IL / est. 1883 as Hunt, Helm, & Ferris, renamed Starline 1931, acquired Federal Malleable Company of Wisconsin 1943, currently part of Farm Systems Division of Chromalloy Farm and Industrial Equipment Co., Harvard, IL / wire-stretcher, spring hinge / patent 395146 Dec 25 1888 Charles E. Hunt and Nathan B. Helm and Henry L. Ferris & 414201 Nov 5 1889 Henry L. Ferris / https://archives.lib.niu.edu/repositories/2/resources/1093 / https://haytrolleyheaven.com/manufacturer/hunt-helm-ferris/ / see also "Starline" /
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grannyknot
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Well done guys, definitely wire fence stretcher, looks like it lost one of its springs along the way.
Hopefully it won't have sold by the time the swapmeet comes around next Aug.
Thanks all.
Hopefully it won't have sold by the time the swapmeet comes around next Aug.
Thanks all.
RTM
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Man that's playing the long game.
I'd be more worried about remembering that next month.