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This past week I had been reading a book on Stanley Boxwood and Ivory rulers. You can read the book online at this link. So while reading the book I saw this Stanley No.1 Odd Job tool. Until then I had never seen one of these. Well while we were out late Saturday afternoon, I walk up to this table and there is one sitting there. I picked it up and looked it over, ask the price and quickly pulled out my money and walked away. There are two patent dates on the bottom, Jan 25 87 and Sept 18 88 and the last was issued on 389,647. Here is an image I have from a 1892 digital version of a Stanley catalog. This is the early version of the speed square. With this a carpenter could check 45's, plumb, level and with a four fold ruler attached depth and square. He could put a pencil through the hole in the top and draw a circle, find center and so on. What makes this one really nice is the bubble of the level is still intact. The picture of the No.1 in the 1909 catalog shows that the logo has changed so I can date this based on the logo on the top and put it between 1888 and 1900. So this was for the most part my weekend rust hunt which was a short one but a very good one. One more wonderful piece to add to the display cabinet. I just love Patriot Picking!
