The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
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The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.
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#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces@Adrenochrome In the children's books we read in the sixties and early seventies, it seemed that every boy character carried around a pocket knife that included "a tool for removing stones from horses' hooves." This was such a common phrase that archive.org has more than 150 books that contain it. Of course we hardly ever saw a horse...
https://archive.org/search?tab=fulltext&query=%22for+removing+stones+from+horses%27+hooves
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Hello im a blacksmith. And alsp trained under a verry good farrier for a time
This is not espacialy hard but is time consumeingIt seems like its been made to be impossible to separetly turn each hoofpick?
Makeing the thing
1 create loops by bending thin bar
or upset(widen) ends of a bar and punch a hole in each (more time consumeing)
2 bend the back of the lyre shape
3 pass thin bar through the loops / punched holes
4 make the tools and flatten the ends that you will wrap around the thin bar
5 repeatedly heat the flattened area of each tool and wrap the flattened part around the thin barThis is easyer to make in a coal/coke forge
Also its possible to get each tool atached prettly stiffly so they dont jangle around but i would probably add something so when they eventualy loosen you can lock them in place in their compact position
To do this id add another thin bar for the tools to rest against,and another on a rivet that slides over the other side to hold them in place
- but i cant figire out how to describe this part well
Or a snug leather pouch they fit into?
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The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.
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#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces@Adrenochrome @hamishb it has very old lineage!
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@Adrenochrome @hamishb it has very old lineage!
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The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.
By #SteampunkTendencies
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces@Adrenochrome
Like an early Swiss Army Knife, but more aesthetically pleasing. -
The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.
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#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlacesI've searched for more information and found one listing of the tools:
A hook used to untie knots.
A scoop for measuring medication.
A screw starter.
A different screw starter.
A corkscrew.
A toothpick or possibly an awl.
A saw blade.
A flathead screwdriver.
A pick.
A hook to snag fishing lines.Myself, I don't think that's a toothpick. Looks like an awl. And the last hook gives me button hook vibes, for fastening your boot and spat buttons. The scoop also seems questionable
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The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.
By #SteampunkTendencies
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces@Adrenochrome I'm impressed - especially by the little detents in the hinge to make the bits all stay closed or opened!
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@Adrenochrome
#Alttext
Left to right the tools are:
Large hoof cleaner
Small hoof cleaner (?)
Narrow corkscrew (?)
Gimlet
Wide corkscrew
Narrow awl
Saw
Flatblade screwdriver
Wide awl
HookSherlock would have had a separate set of lock picks.
#SherlockHolmes@skua @Adrenochrome
But no knife, what probably means, that a knife is not needed because everyone had one. This gives me a different look on old pictures from that time.
Knifes everywhere? -
The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.
By #SteampunkTendencies
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces@Adrenochrome At least for foldable hoofpicks, there are still similar designs around. But unfortunately without the finesse of the original. And no extra tools. I've got this model:
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@skua @Adrenochrome
But no knife, what probably means, that a knife is not needed because everyone had one. This gives me a different look on old pictures from that time.
Knifes everywhere?@Nowhereman @Adrenochrome
Yes.
And yet "knife crime" wasn't usually seen as a big problem? (Though the Sydney razor gangs were.)Today a lot of rural manual workers would usually have a knife still I think.
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The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.
By #SteampunkTendencies
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces@Adrenochrome A nasty piece of martial art tool, isn't it
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The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.
By #SteampunkTendencies
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces@Adrenochrome It's not decades, it's millennia.
https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/learn-with-us/look-think-do/roman-swiss-army-knife -
Or a snug leather pouch they fit into?
@hamishb good point that would work well
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The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.
By #SteampunkTendencies
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces@Adrenochrome that is delightful
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The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)
Decades before the first Swiss Army knife (1891), London’s Underwood of Haymarket crafted this "harped" pocket kit. Designed for Victorian sportsmen, it features a hoof pick, saw, and corkscrew. A rare 19th-century masterpiece of portability.
By #SteampunkTendencies
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces@Adrenochrome there are also roman multi tools..
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