- category
- shoptools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- property of Gilbert Cardinal by 1920, then workshop of Alton Cardinal, then workshop of Peter Cardinal
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#shop_tools_1
Shop Tools
These tools belonged to my father prior to 1920. Some of them came from my grandfather who died in 1913.
- anvil
- Cold chisels, punch
- Rachet brace
- Ships auger bit
- Small claw hammer
- Carpenter's square (2′)
- Two hand saws (cross cut)
- Oil stone
- Block plane
- Carpenter level (wooden)
- Carpenter chisel (⅜″)
- maker_mark
- FISHER
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2014
- category
- shoptools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- property of Gilbert Cardinal by 1920, then workshop of Alton Cardinal, then workshop of Peter Cardinal
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#shop_tools_1
[text shown above] - disposition
- currently owned as of January 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- thought to be a gift to Alton and Beatrice Cardinal around 1947, household of Alton and Beatrice Cardinal prior to 1955, then household of Peter Cardinal
- maker_mark
- paper tags on the bottom read "Fashioned by RONSON" and "RONSON ALL METAL ART WARES" with the stamped number 11478
- condition
- excellent
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- unknown
- note
- used with toy barn and combine
- disposition
- given to Carol Anne Grady, discarded due ot sharp edges after being broken
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- household of Beatrice and Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal
- note
- last surviving member of full set of ceramic dishes in multiple colors (pink, green, yellow)
- condition
- good, some chips and surface stain
- disposition
- currently owned as of January 2014
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
- provenance
- unknown, then household of Alton and Beatrice Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal
- note
- believed to have been purchased for Alton Cardinal's high school locker about 1927
- note
- tag maker mark is "CENT'L TAG CO."
- note
- reverse of tag is stamped "6314" and has pencil notation "WAM" and "125" (price?)
- maker_mark
- (front, on knob) "Dudley", (back) "MADE IN U.S.A. / Dudley / REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. / DUDLEY LOCK CORP. / CHICAGO, ILL. / PATENTS NO. 1291228 / 1369850 16550002 / 1508139 1736183 / OTHERS PENDING", (stamp on bottom) "AD23485"
- disposition
- currently owned as of August 2014
- category
- shoptools
- family_branch
- Ferslev
- provenance
- workshop of Niels Ferslev, then workshop of Alton Cardinal, then workshop of Peter Cardinal
- note
- reverse numbering one side for inside measurements, sliding joints (not folding), marked with "F" (for Ferslev)
- condition
- good
- maker_mark
- one end, "Interlox Master Slide Rule", "INSIDE MEASURE", "MASTER RULE MFG. CO. INC. N.Y.C."; opposite side, "PAT'D 12-113-10, 7-29-13 - 11-2-15, 12-24-18 & PAT'S PEND.", "OUTSIDE MEASURE", "N.Y.C. APPRD", "X - 4"
- disposition
- stayed with Reed Street house 2022
- category
- household
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- unknown
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#orange_spoon
Orange spoon
For eating oranges cut in half.
- disposition
- unknown
- category
- fieldtools
- family_branch
- Cardinal_Gilbert
- provenance
- tools of Gilbert Cardinal prior to 1920, then tools of Alton Cardinal, then tools of Peter Cardinal
- notebook_reference
-
OldThings.html#field_tools
Field Tools
These tools belonged to my father, Gilbert Cardinal, prior to 1920. Most of them were probably in 1917 when we moved onto a farm at Oneida, Wisconsin.
- Double-bitted axe (handle replaced about 1965)
- Scythe
- Wooden hand hay rake (I turned replacement teeth in 1985)
- Garden spade
- Two three-tined pitch forks
- Corn knife
- Post hole digger
- Buck saw
- Lantern
- Short-handled square shovel (this was discarded by C&NW Ry in 1920's)
- disposition
- unknown