Brent asked about miter boxes and saws.  In case anyone else is
interested, here's some info from my archives - courtesy of
Steve LaMantia.
Regards,
Charlie Rodgers
Clinton, Maryland

The following information on Stanley miter boxes is taken from an
August, 1996 post from Stephen LaMantia:
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Here's some information on Stanley miter boxes I took from the 1909
catalog.
The "width board" column refers to the width of the baseboard on the
miterbox; since
the front saw support column is several inches out from the front, if
you dangle a wider
piece out off the front of the baseboard, you can cut a 90 on a piece
much wider than the
board width (for example, on the model 240, the board width is just over
4", but you
can actually cut a piece at 90 that's over 8" wide.  Prices quoted are
with the saw (always
made by Disston); without the saw, they were $1.00 (#240) to $2.50
(#460) less. Weight 
pairs are without the saw and with the saw, respectively.  (Note on the
242 and the 244, 
the "with-saw" weight should actually be 28-1/4 and 28-1/2; I just
rounded it to 28 to 
fit in the column.)
                        width         -cutting capacity-       saw
model       length      board       90        45        30     size    
wt    price
-------  --------      -------    ------    ------   ------   -----  
-----  ------
240        18          4-1/8      8-1/4     5-1/2    3-1/2    20x4   
23/28  10.50
242        18          4-1/8      8-1/4     5-1/2    3-1/2    22x4   
23/28  10.75
244        18          4-1/8      8-1/4     5-1/2    3-1/2    24x4   
23/28  11.00
246        18          4-1/8      8-1/4     5-1/2    3-1/2    26x4   
23/30  11.25
346        20-1/2      4-1/2      9-1/2     6-1/2    4-1/8    26x4   
29/34  12.25
358        20-1/2      4-1/2      9-1/2     6-1/2    4-1/8    28x5   
29/36  13.00
460        24          5-3/4       11       7-1/2    5-1/8    30x6   
42/51  16.00

>From what I've gathered, the above models were their good, "state of the
art" miter boxes
with bells and whistles, or "refinements" as Stanley called them:
hold-tights (which also
allowed for compound cuts), stop blocks, automatic catches and
trip-release triggers,
depth stops, and even support columns adjustable for varying saw blade
thickness.

Stanley also had a line of no-frills workaday miter boxes that were
capable of using
standard carpenter panel saws rather than the big backsaws.  The model
numbers for
these were the 50, 50-1/2, 60, and 60-1/2.  The 60 was essentially a 50
that was
provided with a backsaw; so too with the 60-1/2 and 50-1/2.

--Steve