Orrin L. Gatchell's hand-saw...

[gben]

A saw from a local estate sale which belonged to a man named Orrin L. Gatchell who fought at Gettysburg in the Civil War among several other battles. He worked as a shoemaker and a carpenter before and after the Civil War and retired from the Pennsylvania Railroad. His descendants have published a book about him, which I guess I will have to buy and read. Did he buy this saw when he lived in Dunkirk, NY before the Civil War or did he buy it after the war when he moved to Erie, PA? : http://www.orrinsstory.com/Home.aspx:


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[JOHN42768]

Welcome, enjoy. http://huk1.wkfinetools.com/01-Brit...ls/TB-16inchTenonSaw/TB-16inchTenonSaw-01.asp
Made in UK. He could haxe gotten it anywhere.

 

[gben]

="JOHN42768, post: Made in UK. He could haxe gotten it anywhere.

Thank-you John, but I did not ask where but when, if Orrin bought it before or after the Civil War.

Also Wiktor Kuc and his "WK fine tools" website often come up in searches for information on tools, but Mr. Kuc and his website although trendy, glitzy and popular are not as good or useful a source of information on tools as he wishes it were. I have used hand-tools to make a living and collected old tools for decades before that website existed.

Not enough information on Taylor saws exists to date the saw so closely to determine it's date of manufacture more narrowly than ten years on Mr. Kuc's website or anywhere else, so it is a question that probably has no answer at all without the help of a time-machine or unless you are willing to blindly follow some man's held belief or opinion.