The Antique Register

38 Nov-Dec 07
� Oracle • Tombstone • Tucson Guide �
Sue & Jerry’s “Unique Resale & Gift Shop”
Buy • Sell • Trade • Antiques • Furniture
Clothing • Indian rugs • Pottery • Gifts
Located in Beautiful Downtown Oracle
Open Daily 10:00 am-4:00 pm • Closed Mondays
520-896-9200 • 1015 W. American Ave • Oracle, AZ
Over 3,000 Square Feet
• Vintage Clothing & Jewelry
• Huge selection of Sun Purpled & Depression Glass
• 1950’s Cowboy Collectibles
• Coins & Paper Currency
• Large selection of reference books
• Authentic Tombstone & Old West Artifacts
109 S. 3rd Street, Tombstone, AZ 85638
Monday thru Saturday 10:30-5:30, Sunday 11-5
Closed Tuesdays & Wednesdays
www.tombstoneantiques.com
Tucson’s Guide
To Great Antiquing & Collecting
1. Elegant Junque Shop
4932 E. Speedway • 520-881-8181
2. Christine’s Antiques
4940 E. Speedway • 520-323-0018
3. Copper Country Mall
5051 E. Speedway • 520-326-0167
4. 22nd Street Antique Mall*
5302 E. 22nd Street • 520-514-5262
5. Firehouse Antique Center*
6522 E. 22nd Street • 520-571-1775
6. American Antiques
3130 E. Grant • 520-325-6072
7. Cedric’s Antiques
2782 N. Campbell Ave • 520-326-3070
8. The Grey House
3791 E. Fort Lowell • 520-325-6072
7
Tucson Blvd.
Glenn
6
Country Club
Dodge
Pima
Speedway Blvd.
5th St.
Broadway Blvd.
22nd St.
* Open Sundays Map Not To Scale
8
Alvernon
Ft. Lowell
3
1 2
Swan
Grant Road
4
Craycroft
N
Wilmot
Tanque
Verde
5
Kolb Road
Collecting Antique Tools
By Mary Dessoie
Ladies, here’s an article to share with the man in
your life! Why not plan a lovely day of antiquing by
visiting the advertisers in this publication.
You can happily search for Limoges and Staffordshire
china and your fellow can scout for old tools. A couple
that collects together makes for a happy partnership.
Up until the mid-19th Century, only about 150-years
ago, most tools were still hand made. Antique tools are
categorized in many ways. Thousands of years ago in
pre-historic times, humans first started to make tools.
Those first tools were fashioned from slim pieces of
stones, that we now call eoliths—primitive hatchets,
hammers and axes. The truth is that, up until the mid-
19th Century, only about 150-years ago, most tools
were still hand made.
Old tools can be hand carved wood, hand-forged
metal or a combination of both. They can be the earlier
factory-made pieces with some hand detailing or the
later factory-made items that were completely machine
fashioned.
Beyond that, tools are categorized by the workers
who used them and the crafts in which they were used:
farming, masonry (stone cutting), blacksmith (farrier
and wheelwright), carpentry, (woodworker and cooper),
tinsmith, logging, leather work (tanner and currier),
railroad and nautical, just to name a few.
If some of those craft names are foreign to you, that’s
part of the fun of collecting tools. You soon learn that
a farrier shoes horses, a cooper makes barrels, and a
currier works hides into leather.
Regional origin is often a key to a tool’s function.
Sometimes old tools were fashioned on the spot simply
to perform a specific job.
A trip to a local historical society can often help you
find out what kinds of business thrived in a particular
region.
Mary Dessoie covers a variety of topics in the field of
antiques. She founded the Butter Pat Patter Association
for collectors of butter pats. Butter pats are miniature
plates that were introduced during the mid-1800’s for
individual servings of butter. A subscription to The
Patter newsletter costs $22 and inc
ludes a mint-condition Royal Doulton butter pat and
ten issues of The Patter. Sample copies are available
by sending $4.00 and a LSSAE (58 cents). For those
persons who would like to start their subscriptions
immediately and receive their Royal Doulton pat by
return mail, please send your check or money order,
payable to Mary Dessoie, to BPPA, 7950 E. Keats
Avenue, No. 178, Mesa, AZ 85209-5025. For additional
information about butter pats, go to google and type in
“Butter Pat Patter Association.”