So I bought this miter box today...

[Matthew Holloway]

Never seen a compound miter box before. For $8 I had to have it. I cannot find any info on it. Haven't try dating the Disston saw yet. Anyone know anything about this miter box?


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[Mel Fulks]

No,never. And I'm old. I'm guessing it's pretty rare.

[bridger berdel]

that is cool. working and complete? what does it say on the tag?

[Jim Matthews]

That's clever.

Cool find.

$8 including the saw?
You suck

[Matthew Holloway]

that is cool. working and complete? what does it say on the tag?

Its fully functional. The saw is very sharp. It doesn't appear to be missing anything.

The tags says.

MY FATHER'S
DUO-PIVOT MITER BOX
A PATENTRY PRODUCT
THE PATENTRY COMPANY, INC
JAMAICA 2, NEW YORK, U.S.A.
MODEL C PATENTS PENDING.



That's clever.

Cool find.

$8 including the saw?
You suck

I found it at an estate sale. No one there knew anything about it. First I came across 8 lightly used Disston files with handles. $8 bucks. I then spotted three saws hanging on the wall. $8 bucks. One of them is a Disston NO. 4 miter box saw. So I started looking around for the miter box. There is was. Sitting under an old beat up work bench. $5 bucks. Best $21 I ever spent. The other saws are a Disston D-7 and a Warranted Superior.

[Bill Houghton]

So, not your father's Oldsmobile, but your father's miter box? Why did he keep it a secret from you all these years?

That's a nifty design. It'll be interesting, as you put it to work, to see how it works. Those cantilevered designs are sometimes a little wobbly, but that one's pretty doggoned substantial.

There is a modern Patentry Company, trademark registered 2004 - I wonder if they know they're using someone else's trademark.

[Matthew Holloway]

So, not your father's Oldsmobile, but your father's miter box? Why did he keep it a secret from you all these years?

That's a nifty design. It'll be interesting, as you put it to work, to see how it works. Those cantilevered designs are sometimes a little wobbly, but that one's pretty doggoned substantial.

There is a modern Patentry Company, trademark registered 2004 - I wonder if they know they're using someone else's trademark.

I'm not sure I understand your post. I bought this miter box at an estate sale this morning. The previous owner passed away. There is a tag on the front of the miter box that says:

MY FATHER'S
DUO-PIVOT MITER BOX
A PATENTRY PRODUCT
THE PATENTRY COMPANY, INC
JAMAICA 2, NEW YORK, U.S.A.
MODEL C PATENTS PENDING.

[Mel Fulks]

That might be the tag of a company that one paid to get their product patented and on the market, maybe even a single
prototype. Used to be a lot of ads in magazines for that service.

[Moses Yoder]

I'm not sure I understand your post. I bought this miter box at an estate sale this morning. The previous owner passed away. There is a tag on the front of the miter box that says:

MY FATHER'S
DUO-PIVOT MITER BOX
A PATENTRY PRODUCT
THE PATENTRY COMPANY, INC
JAMAICA 2, NEW YORK, U.S.A.
MODEL C PATENTS PENDING.

Engage sense of humor, comprehend post.

[Bill Houghton]

I'm not sure I understand your post. I bought this miter box at an estate sale this morning. The previous owner passed away. There is a tag on the front of the miter box that says:

MY FATHER'S
DUO-PIVOT MITER BOX
A PATENTRY PRODUCT
THE PATENTRY COMPANY, INC
JAMAICA 2, NEW YORK, U.S.A.
MODEL C PATENTS PENDING.

I was teasing you - you may not be old enough to recall the ad slogan, "This is not your father's Oldsmobile," dating from the late 1980s. I was riffing on that and the brand name of the miter box, "My Father's...miter box."

[Bill Houghton]

Engage sense of humor, comprehend post.

No, Moses - things that one generation thinks everyone will always know are gone, gone, gone when that generation's kids/grandkids grow up.

[Tom M King]

I like it. I wonder how many they made, because I've never seen one before. I had a friend that drove an old, hand-me-down 98 Oldsmobile in college. In the back window was a sticker that said, "This IS my Father's Oldsmobile".

[Matthew Holloway]

I like it. I wonder how many they made, because I've never seen one before.

Well this one is model C, so there has to be at least two others out there.



I was teasing you - you may not be old enough to recall the ad slogan, "This is not your father's Oldsmobile," dating from the late 1980s. I was riffing on that and the brand name of the miter box, "My Father's...miter box."

I'm 29, so there ain't much of the 80s I remember. In fact, I never pay much intention to pop culture. I'm more interested in the old ways of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[Joe Bailey]

I don't think it's all that old -- probably mid 1940s
If memory serves, before zip codes (1963?), there were postal codes -- 1 or 2 digit numbers after the city name -- and I think these came about during WWII

[Tom M King]

The saw is the very same saw that came with a Langdon- Acme that I bought new in 1973.

[Bill Houghton]

I don't think it's all that old -- probably mid 1940s
If memory serves, before zip codes (1963?), there were postal codes -- 1 or 2 digit numbers after the city name -- and I think these came about during WWII
Could have been as early as the 1920s, but the national implementation wasn't until World War II - about 1943, if I recall my history correctly. And, yes, ZIP codes were implemented in 1963, although a given manufacturer might have taken a year or so before a ZIP code got on the company badge.

There was a lot of resistance to ZIP codes - people saw them as regimenting everyone.

[Matthew Holloway]

Could have been as early as the 1920s, but the national implementation wasn't until World War II - about 1943, if I recall my history correctly. And, yes, ZIP codes were implemented in 1963, although a given manufacturer might have taken a year or so before a ZIP code got on the company badge.

There was a lot of resistance to ZIP codes - people saw them as regimenting everyone.

The saw has a Disston USA medallion. I believe that puts it 1947-55.

[Mel Fulks]

Good work,Matthew, that date makes sense. I think you've got a piece of post war building boom high tech!

[Jim Matthews]

I'm 29, so there ain't much of the 80s I remember. In fact, I never pay much intention to pop culture. I'm more interested in the old ways of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.


You do understand, that at 29 we stand on opposite sides of a technological divide.
You kids can't remember the glitches in The Matrix that produced Vanilla Ice, let alone KC and the Sunshine band.

When Debbie Gibson hit big, we learned the awful truth...