Photo Index - William P. Kellogg & Co. - Foot powered solid chisel

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Manufactured/Badged by:
William P. Kellogg & Co.
Troy, NY

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Mortising Machine
Machine Size:	1/4" to 3/4" chisels
Submitted By:	Art Shaw

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Foot powered solid chisel
Date of Manufacturer:	1880s
Serial Number:
Last Updated	4/26/2009 9:22:30 PM

Comments:

I tried a couple of times to buy this mortiser from Dave Sharp in Ottawa. Then Jeff Joslin sent a notice that Dave had died of cancer (within 2 months of diagnosis, age 53). Regretfully, I bought it from his widow instead. It has a broken foot pedal and 2 cracks in the main frame, one of which has been spliced with a very well done blacksmith's repair. The site is still disabled to the extent that Jeff Joslin is not able to update info on the manufacturers. After speculating that Kellogg was a Canadian maker (because the only 2 known examples were in the area of Ottawa Ontario)he has since discovered that Wm P Kellogg's factory was in Troy, NY, and probably operated from the 1860s to the 1880s. This machine is obviously made on the pattern introduced by Ezra Gould of Newark NJ, as were those of many other manufacturers.

Photo 1:

Comments: Front view. There is a clumsy angle-iron splint on the broken foot pedal.
Source: Photo by Art Shaw

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Source: Photo by Art Shaw

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Photo 3:

Comments: Makers name. Note the rivet heads which hold a forged iron splice on the other side of the frame bridging a crack in the frame.
Source: photo by Art Shaw

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