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Martin King 2	07/03/2021 17:50:22
1129 forum posts 1 photos	Hi all, Just bought a very large tool collection from an estate, will take weeks to go through but one item I uncovered today was this cute little data book in it user made soldered tinplate case. Thought members might find it amusing, you need really good eyesight to use it! It is only 70x50x15mm!
Nigel Graham 2	07/03/2021 21:48:11
3293 forum posts 112 photos	Wonderful! It looks as if it had plenty of careful use; presumably the late owner being a Plumber, Builder, Sanitary or Electrical Engineer. I don't suppose you found a Sherlock- Holmes style magnifying-glass in among the treasure, to go with it? I've some 1950s Fowlers' Pocket Books (as far as I know, no relation to the traction-engine builders Fowler) and some of the tables in those need a lens. It rather amuses me that some of the entries in the tables in the Zeus Books are not only illegibly small, but are hand-written among all the typed data. Even the physically big books can suffer. One of my geology books is the size of a decent atlas, but the maps have been reduced to the extent you need the hand-lens usually used for examining rock grains, to read the smaller annotations.
Martin King 2	07/03/2021 22:23:01
1129 forum posts 1 photos	Nigel, "I don't suppose you found a Sherlock- Holmes style magnifying-glass in among the treasure, to go with it?" Funny you should say that as there was this also! Really nice lens and there are several others also. Cheers, Martin
Neil Wyatt	07/03/2021 22:48:35
19226 forum posts 749 photos 86 articles	Nice!

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