Cofre del maestro carpintero y cantero Henry O. Studley.

Obviamente era un mason operativo, capaz de colocar las más de 300 herramientas en un cofre de 19 1/2 inches wide, 39 inches long and 9 1/2 inches deep.

Las herramientas están construídas con ébano, caoba, palorosa y latón, con incrustaciones de madreperla y marfín. Después de todo, acabó trabajando en una casa de pianos, y material no le faltaría...

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Studley devised a jigsaw puzzle arrangement of flip-up trays, fold-out layers and hidden compartments. Maine native Pete Hardwick originally owned the chest, which had been in his family since it was bequeathed to his grandfather by Studley. Hardwick acquired the chest from his brother by trading a 1934 Ford sedan for it. A good trade? It would seem so: Just one tool - the Stanley No. 1 plane housed in the ebony archway in the upper-left part of the chest - was appraised at $700.00 in 1993. This tool chest was carefully restored to its original splendor and glory, loaned to the Smithsonian Institution, then displayed in the National Museum of American History as the centerpiece of woodworking and other tradesman tool chests. Studley's chest then changed hands again (for an undisclosed $$$ amount) to another private collector.

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