A Nice Chest

[Broch]

OK, a nice wooden toolmakers chest - but it got you to look at the thread
I picked this up yesterday in Frome Sunday Street Market - it's really in nice condition with the original brass lock and key that makes a very satisfying 'clunk' as it locks . I'm assuming the C.E.Jamieson plaque is the manufacturer's but could it be the craftsman's?

I haven't decided yet if it's going to contain antique tools, art materials, leatherwork tools and materials or just 'objects of interest' but don't tell the missus or she may question my reasoning for buying it!

 

[Macaroon]

That's very nice indeed; I'd have thought that it'd be an apprentice piece and that the plaque referred to the maker/user in a more formal time than the present. Nice find

 

[John Fenna]

Oh - I like that!

 

[Tony]

yes, very nice

 

[Corso]

very nice you got lucky

I'm always on the look out for something similar

 

[Keith_Beef]

I'm always pleased to see a nice chest.

 

[Fraxinus]

Judging by the marking out lines still scribed into the dovetail joint areas and that all of the brass fittings are surface fixed it is the work of Mr Jamieson to hold his tools during his apprenticeship.
High end cabinets would have had inset brass fittings and the gauge lines planed off.
The Carpenters toolbox I made at college still has those gauge lines on as a reminder of how to set out dovetails that are cut by hand.
A very nice find nonetheless and it tells a story.
Rob.

 

[BJJJ]

you are right, it is a very nice chest and yes I had to look.

 

[Wayland]

Nice catch. I love the tool chest I restored a while back.

I keep my older, nicer tool in it.