Marking Gauge
notes: label: Description
content: This is a marking gauge, with a heavy slitting marker, a pegged fence, and a pusher handle.
label: Description
content: A marking gauge is a tool used primarily in woodworking and metalworking for marking out lines for cutting or other operations. It is inscribed with 'ITS' to refer to the original owner, Isaac Truman Stevens.
label: Description
content: Isaac Truman Stevens was born in Waterville, Maine, on March 25th 1805 and lived there all his life, until his death on March 31st 1874. This donation completes a previous donation made by Stevens’ grandson Lawrence in his memory in 1972.
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content: Work and Industry: Hand Tools
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Linda Christensen Stevens
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0112.02
label: accession number
content: 2000.0112
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0112.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gauge
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 cm x 11 cm x 14 cm; 16 1/8 in x 4 5/16 in x 5 1/2 in