Thank you all for sharing with me the knowledge and wisdom you have 
garnered over the years. Ok thats a bit thick but really thanks. Now for my 
Bio I am a 42 year old divorced father of 2 adult children. My eldest has 
given me two grandsons. I built my first chair when I was 7, the type where 
the pedestal and backrest was one piece from scrap wood. I had been a trim 
carpenter for 21 years. Now I own my own company. I live in NY on Long 
Island and make frequent trips to Utica to visit the Grand kids. It was on 
one of these trips that I picked up a saw That I am having trouble ID'ing.
	It was made by A.H. + I Co. of Albany, New York. The etching Says
	"Carpenters Choice"
	# 39, Spring Steel
	Patent Temper    Patent Ground
There is something else written in scrip below this I cant quite make it out
The Handle medallion has a patent date of  Dec. 27, 1827
Attached is a Photo. The handle has been user modified by cutting the 
bottom horn sometime in the past to resemble ? a disston saw.
If any one has info on this saw or knows of any good hunting grounds in New 
York Please reply.

Still Ray wrote:

>...           I picked up a saw That I am having trouble ID'ing.
>	It was made by A.H. + I Co. of Albany, New York. The etching Says
>	"Carpenters Choice"
>	# 39, Spring Steel
>	Patent Temper    Patent Ground

Based on information from Erv Schaffer's _Hand-Saw Makers of North
America_, I'd guess that the saw was purchased from the Albany
Hardware & Iron Co. A circa 1904 catalogue indicated that they
carried saws made for them by Disston, including the "Carpenter's
Choice" model.

Don McConnell
Knox County, Ohio