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This is one of our recently sold items: Antique Arnolds & Sons were based in London (1866-1923) Specialising in Veterinary Dentistry Instruments, this 22″ example is in very good condition. This Old Tool looks to as if  it’s used for dentistry purposes. Examples of Arnolds instruments can be found in the science museum in London.

This is one of our recently sold items: Antique Arnolds & Sons (1866-1923) 23″ long Veterinary tongs for Clamping or gripping. My thoughts are this looks like something a veterinary dentist would would have used.

This is one of our recently sold items: Measuring approx 20″ these appear to be some kind of side cutter instrument with detachable rosewood handles. In good working order with some plating loss and one rosewood handle which has been restored and treated to preserve strength as it had visible cracks which needed attention so…

This is one of our recently sold items: Good Marples Hibernia Slater’s ripper is in very good condition for its age, you can see by the images the marks from when it was forged from hot steel, this makes this superior to the modern cold rolled rippers made today. Tools like this were made to…

This is one of our recently sold items: Vintage Stanley No. 55 Concave Spokeshave in good working order, we have undertaken the arduous task of sharpening and honing the iron it to a good standard so that it is ready to use.

This is one of our recently sold items: Really good Carpenters or Coopers Hand adze head that was likely to have been made by a blacksmith back in the 19th century. The Item is in really clean condition and has been sharpened and honed and I can confirm it is a very hard piece of…