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256123 <ecoyle@t...> 2015‑09‑06 Re: actual mystery tool
serendipity happens once again.

In the alley culture of the garage I use for a shop, there lives across the
alley a stone mason. Trained in traditional stone masonry, gargoyles and all
that stuff. He gets his tools from  England when he goes to visit family.

He know’s I’m a garage saler, and asked me to keep an eye open for stone masons
tools, which, as the seridipity note implies, happened today.

The vintage tools I posted a few days ago, well, the fella dug out a box of
stone masons tools that I found when I revisited him today And he had indeed
found a box of stone masons tools. Most of which are incomprehsible to me, but I
can tell broken tools so I avoided them...only picked up a few which looked
intact and relatively sharp.

Waiting for stonemason alley-buddy to take a look at them, maybe learn something
along the way.

The listserve axiom is that if they ain’t wwing tools, they must be
leatherworking tools, to which might be added  a corollary (?#1)....if they aint
wwing tools, or leather, they could be stone masons tool!!!.

Eric

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