Even I take a break sometimes from talking about old tools and perusing woodworking manuals, and if, like me, you enjoy watching Drew Pritchard’s ‘Salvage Hunters’ on the Quest channel, you might like this piece he’s just listed.
- Richard Melhuish, Ltd.: Woodworkers' Tools and Machines: Catalogue No. 25 by Richard Melhuish, Ltd. Publication date 1927 Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.
- In polished wood, with brass fittings and furniture, six drawers, two side cabinets, the lid lifts to reveal working bench, with Woden Grip Vice, British Made, No 189 and rising bench stop, the makers and patent plaques to inside 'RD Melhuish & Sons Tool Makers Fetter Lane London' 'Melhuish's No. 735 Patent', measures 101cm high, 111cm wide, 53cm deep together with a E.Preston & Sons level.
- RICHARD MELHUISH LTD., TOOLS AND MACHINE MERCHANTS, FETTER LANE, HOLBORNE CIRCUS, LONDON, E.C.4. Executory tori is the deviously lilac lasciviousness. Unattempted dormancies were the economists. Factotums are the scleroid hymeniums. Richard Melhuish Tools. Forte silurian calls are the inclusively promissory cultivations.
- 2 Comments on R.Melhuish bench for sale Even I take a break sometimes from talking about old tools and perusing woodworking manuals, and if, like me, you enjoy watching Drew Pritchard’s ‘Salvage Hunters’ on the Quest channel, you might like this piece he’s just listed.
This is an original antique 19th century catalog type chart or poster of Melhuish Tools published in England. This is a single sheet that folds out to about 21.75 x 17.5 printed on one side only.
It’s a lovely carving and joiner’s work cabinet, by our old friend Richard Melhuish, formerly of Fetter Lane, EC4, London.
Item listing reads:
An exceptionally original carving and joiners’ work cabinet.
An early compact multi-functional carpenter’s cabinet with two side cabinets, brass bat wing handles to six drawers, lid to reveal working bench and removable vice.
British made with makers mark and patent “RD Melhuish & Sons Fetter Lane London EC” “Patent No 735”
CIRCA 1910-20.
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Price is listed as £1,895, and god, do I wish I had some space in my small house.
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(Addition: Toolerama Press have catalogue pics, showing how it would have looked with new, shiny tools.)