If only...

[bandit571]

One could buy one of these tool boxes, today...

   
Would it be one of these?
Or..step up a wee bit and buy Chest #B?

   

Or, IF you had the $60?

   
Maybe Tool Chest #C?

Too many to keep track of..and maybe a fancier chest?

   
But fewer tools, more for doing wood work? You could set this up at the back of a bench, and get to work?

However....the way my tool budget is...maybe just a "starter set"?

   
just enough to start?   Only $15.00...Catalog these came in?

   
From "The James Swan Company" back in 1911...

[stav]

If only a person could time travel and drop a today $50 on one of those old tool sets in new condition.

[ZachDillinger]

If only a person could time travel and drop a today $50 on one of those old tool sets in new condition.

Oh, they still exist, you just have to look for them... and they cost a little more than $60.

[Nordic]

Oh, they still exist, you just have to look for them... and they cost a little more than $60.

[Admiral]

If only a person could time travel and drop a today $50 on one of those old tool sets in new condition.

Yeah, but if Scotty beamed you back to 1911, your weekly average wage is maybe $20, so there's that.

[bandit571]

Yep..

   
Yep...

   
When the shop is open for Business..

   
otherwise..all these opened doors..

   
Will be closed up..

   
except when I need a tool from them..

   

[AHill]

Yeah, but if Scotty beamed you back to 1911, your weekly average wage is maybe $20, so there's that.

More like $10-12.  But still something you'd either buy on credit or saved for over several months, if not years before purchasing one.  I wonder if a lot of those tool kits were shared between several craftsmen, though.

[bandit571]

I would have to go back and look again, but...one tool chest set used  Stanley No. 4, Stanley No. 5 and a Stanley No. 6 for the hand planes, along with the Stanley block plane...remember, this catalog was from 1911....

Imagine what those would be like now?
Tool Chest "No. C"   Block plane was a No. 220....

I do have that No. 945 Ratchet Brace, 10"

While they did provide files to sharpen saws, there isn't a saw vise....but there is a saw set.
Not sure about the 2 hatchets they provided...mine is by Plumb...fiberglass handle..

One of these days...I might sit down, and go through my stash of tools, and see how close to one of their sets I can get...