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   dirtstirrer | Apr 06, 2005 02:56am | #1

   I'm looking too, good luck.

    

   Steve
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   macalex | Apr 06, 2005 12:31pm | #2

   The box or the poster?

   And, what actually happened to the box? Who owns it now?

   MalcolmNew Zealand | New Thinking

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   Froed | Apr 06, 2005 01:27pm | #3

   IIRC, it's in a private collection somewhere in Wisconsin.

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   dirtstirrer | Apr 06, 2005 02:26pm | #4

   I doubt I could afford the box, so the poster would have to do.  Altough I would try to mortgage the house for that set of tools.  I wonder what that Wisconsin collector paid for the box?  I guess I thought it was at the Smithsonian.

    Steve

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   macalex | Apr 06, 2005 02:31pm | #5

   Thanks

   I remember some comment when the poster was first promoted by FWW about the 'stonemason's' instruments in the box. Turned out to be Masonic symbols as I recall.

   If you had to pick a defining image for 20th century craft woodworking, that poster would be in the top 10, right?

   MalcolmNew Zealand | New Thinking

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   dirtstirrer | Apr 06, 2005 03:43pm | #7

   Yes, no doubt about it.  Mr. Studley indeed set the bar very high.  Your question raises an interesting point.  What other 20th. century woodworking feats would be on the list?  Something by Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene and Greene or Stickley perhaps?  Interesting question Malcolm!

    Steve

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   tailsorpins | Apr 06, 2005 10:02pm | #11

   The last I saw, the Studley chest was among other notable tool chests in a display in the Smithsonian which included a famous cabinetmakers chest (name escapes me), 1850 surgeons chest, uphosterers chest, a farrier's box etc.  Those recent photos differ from the original poster in that they show evidence that they had restored some of the broken tool handles and replaced some of the missing inlays and knobs.  'Tis a masterpiece.

   John

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   user-5099663 | Apr 06, 2005 09:42pm | #10

   the poster, the box, I believe, is in the Smithsonian...

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   rickles13 | Apr 06, 2005 02:47pm | #6

   SteveO

   Check out this link...

   R13

   http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/pages/w00088.asp

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   RonInOttawa | Apr 06, 2005 04:50pm | #8

   Steve-- I think that Lee Valley Tools carried the poster a few years ago. You might want to contact them via their website to see if anyone there can get their hands on a copy or tell you of another source.

   [email protected]

   Regards,

   Ron

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   Miami | Apr 06, 2005 05:40pm | #9

   Hi,

    

   I have the Treasure Boxes book referred to above (in part because my esteemed WW teacher has a piece in it!  If you have it, his is on p. 174.).  The only Studley pictures in that book are the exact same 4 that are on the Taunton page linked above - the whole-box pic is a full page, the other three are about the same 2" x 2" size as on the linked page.

    

   It's a beautiful book, and entirely worthwhile otherwise, but I didn't want anyone to think that it had lots of photos or an extensive section on the Studley. 

    

   Every time I see that breathtaking box ... well ... he wasn't merely 'studly' - he was DA MAN!

    

   Clay