Tools Of A Swiss Sattler

[Alan RUNDELL]

G'day all,

This is another one for the collection..... a "Buck & Hickman" made in England but I am told they went out of production some years ago.

Does anybody have any information on this Plough Gauge please?

[Alan RUNDELL]

PERFECT PACKAGING !

Have you ever purchased a leather tool on eBay and thought "I hope they pack it well".......   then wait & hope it will arrive in good condition.

I did that just recently with a plough gauge knife, to my very pleasant surprise it arrived as seen below in the Pics.  This is a lesson in how to package products perfectly.

What a lot of effort this person has gone to...even laminating & gluing the polystyrene before cutting out the section so the knife was fully protected, to top it off there was sponge rubber packed around the outside.

[Riem]

Wow, wow wow! Fifteen pages of incredible information about the craft and tools. Incredible... I suffer from serious tool envy...

[Trox]

On 4/4/2017 at 4:34 AM, Alan RUNDELL said:

Thank you for that information Walter, very much appreciated.

Regards

Alan

I know this is an old thread now but I failed to answer you post. There you have the same one Allan, Great! Did you find any more info on it? Thanks

[Trox]

On 10/27/2016 at 6:55 PM, Dams said:

@Trox About Dumay à Paris. It seems to be a discrete company because the tool below is the only one I saw for sale for years : https://www.leboncoin.fr/collection/1012539715.htm?ca=2_s Sorry but i have nothing else to say about that ;-)

There it is, thank you! I'm sorry for the late reply. Seems to be a very rare brand this. Thank you so much for posting!

Tor

[Dams]

Yes @Trox it is not a common brand. I really like this manufacturer. This plough, I finally bought, is one of the most beautiful tool I have.

[ClaimedVacancy]

Hey all,

I have continued the conversation regarding the Swiss clam. If you all are interested, of course!

 

[noordwesth]

Amazing tool collection in that first post! Wow!

[Zack00]

It's quite a big collection.

[Nox]

Hi, everyone. You may already know? Alan R. from Australia has just informed me that Walter Roth died 1 year ago on January 18, 2023, he recently knew it because he could not reach him by email and his nephew replied when he looked at the mails 1 year later in January 2024.
He apparently had a heart attack at work and died immediately.

His nephew has all his tools and they will remain a collection… it’s a good thing! says Alan.

My condolences, I communicated a little by email with him (we exchanged information, documents and I had helped him buy tools in France) and he was very kind, he sent me some gifts as a thank you. For personal reasons and health problems, it’s been years since I left the world of forums and exchanges on tools and saddlery after sharing a lot of documents and everything I could, but it makes me sad...