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The other day while searching on the internet for something I did come across a scanned copy of the Marples catalogue from 1938 ………..all 282 pages!!! It seems back then they published it as a book! It’s the most incredible, in-depth catalogue of hand-tools with diagrams I’ve ever seen. It really is quite amazing.
I don’t know if this is of any interest to any of you. And if you’ve seen this kind of thing many times before then I do apologise, but I was quite excited, just because it’s so in-depth, and thought it’d be quite useful (for someone like me at least) to help identify some really really specific odd tool that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. I don’t know what you think.
Anyway, here’s the link in case you’re interested: http://www.toolemera.com/bkpdf/MarplesCat1938.pdf