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02-03-2012, 11:35 PM #21Member
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I didn't know John Bobbit made hones. I bet those things'll get a razor sharp enough to cut your #%$@ off.
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02-04-2012, 05:10 AM #22Junior Member
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More enlightenment.
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02-04-2012, 08:50 PM #23Junior Member
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Some more pictures of the Charles Babbitt hone. Any comments or questions would be greatly appreciated. I am not a collector just found this and really curious about this.
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02-06-2012, 06:28 AM #24Senior Member
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Beautiful dude!! That is a keeper for sure. One of a kind.
I think that belongs in a museum. What a great piece to come by. Incredible.
And it's amazing that Isaac was his son. What a chunk of history that no one ever knew. !!
Amazing.
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02-06-2012, 12:06 PM #25Junior Member
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Isaac was his brother.
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02-07-2012, 09:04 AM #26Unique. Like all of you.
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To me the shown specimen of the hone does not look like an original ~1830s item, but something made considerably later. It certainly is an interesting object, as is the Babbitt family history and the subject of cast steel hones.
Apparently there were other brands too, like Old Eagle and Gelet & Farnum, as in this article in the Pittsburgh Gazette of the fifth of August 1831:
And another example, sold (and made?) by T&C Wood in the American for the Country 1836-1837:
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02-07-2012, 10:56 AM #27Junior Member
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Whats your guess on the age of this hone& Originally Posted by Oldengaerde
To me the shown specimen of the hone does not look like an original ~1830s item, but something made considerably later. It certainly is an interesting object, as is the Babbitt family history and the subject of cast steel hones.
Apparently there were other brands too, like Old Eagle and Gelet & Farnum, as in this article in the Pittsburgh Gazette of the fifth of August 1831:
And another example, sold (and made?) by T&C Wood in the American for the Country 1836-1837:
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02-07-2012, 11:14 PM #28Unique. Like all of you.
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Early 20th, maybe late 19th century. But what do I know
? The design obviously does date from 2nd quarter of the 19th.
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