On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Michael Blair wrote:

> I've run into a dating problem for a cooper's tool -- the chamfer knife.
> Seen as one of the definitive cooper's tools, I  have to determine if it
> was in common use before 1846, and I suspect it was not.  In fact, it
> makes no appearance among cooper's tools other than British and American.
>
> The tool in question can be seen in the first two rows of photos here:
>
> http://www.b
ing.com/images/search?q=cooper%27s+chamfer+
> knife&qpvt=cooper%27s+chamfer+knife&FORM=IGRE#a


Is number 7 on the Boisselier plate from Diderot (1750s) a chamfer knife?
http://artflsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.18:22:
1.encyclopedie0513">http://artflsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-
bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.18:22:1.encyclopedie0513

Brian