Antique Toolbox: Can you guess how this Landis Valley Museum tool was used?

Do you know what this tool, an artifact from the collection of Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum, was used for?

Landis Valley Museum curator Jennifer Royer says it’s 15.25 inches in height, 4.125 inches in width and 1.125 inches deep.

If you think you what what the tool is and what it was used for, send your guess to Mary Ellen Wright at features@lnpnews.com, with “Antique Toolbox” in the subject line, or mail to Mary Ellen Wright/Antique Toolbox, LNP Media Group, P.O. Box 1328, Lancaster, PA 17608-1328.

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Important: Please include your full name and the town you live in with your guess.

Guesses are due by Monday, March 11. We’ll reveal the correct answer in LNP and on LancasterOnline on Friday, March 22.

HG Antique old tool.jpg — LANDIS VALLEY VILLAGE AND FARM MUSEUM

Last month's mystery tool: A carpenter's marking gauge

In the past month, we’ve received lots of correct answers to the mystery that was January’s vintage tool from the collection of the Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum.

In fact, out of the more than three dozen responses we received, all were correct answers.

Lots of readers who responded say they — or their parents or grandparents — have worked with a tool just like it in the past.

Landis Valley Museum curator Jennifer Royer says the tool is a Stanley Sweetheart No. 68 carpenter’s marking gauge.

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It is used by those who do woodworking and metalworking to mark precise lines for making cuts in wood or metal.

The post has measurements in increments of 1/16th of an inch, up to 3 inches.

The tool is sometimes called by a few different names, such as a scriber’s gauge and a mortising gauge.

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Some of our readers noted this particular gauge had been repaired with two staples, “which shows what people did years ago,” writes Douglas Brinkley of Cornwall Manor. “You did not throw it away and get a new one — you fixed the old one.”

CORRECT ANSWERS

• Akron: Leon Brubaker.

• Columbia: Leslie Deeg-Fritz.

• Cornwall: Douglas Brinkley.

• Denver: Wilmer Nolt.

• East Hempfield Township: Russ Skiles, Jack Esbenshade.

• East Lampeter Township: William Sloyer.

• Elizabethtown: Don Stark, David Sarraf.

• Ephrata: Jack Harley, Jim Garner, Kevin Seibert, Marvin Sauder.

• Gordonville: Glenn C. Hershey.

• Lancaster: John Williams, Frances Keen, Mark McElwee, Jill Greenawalt, Hut Phongxaysanith, Lewis Baum, David Schaffhauser, Thomas Herr, Patrick McCrea, James Zink.

• Lancaster Township: Tom Wall, Jerry Kelley, Woody Gingrich.

• Landisville: Rollin Ebersole.

• Lebanon: Jim Everett.

• Lititz: Suter Hudson, Milton Machalek.

• Millersville: Jim LaPorte, Wayne Herr.

• Mount Gretna: Matthew Hovanec.

• Mount Joy: Eric Miller.

• Mountville: Gary Glick, Mick Goodman.

• Nazareth: Phil Houck.

• Strasburg: Beth Gunnion, George Overmeyer, Clair Denlinger, Thomas Martin.

• West Cocalico Township: Dave Hibshman.

• Wantage, New Jersey: Mark Wallace.

• Willow Street: L. Dale Shenk, Doris Morrison,

• No town listed: Timothy Harper.

Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum, a living history site exploring aspects of Pennsylvania German farming culture, is at 2451 Kissel Hill Road in Manheim Township.

Heritage craft and cooking classes are filling up fast for Landis Valley’s Winter Institute, March 22-24. For information on this series that has been brought back this year after a five-year hiatus, visit landisvalleymuseum.org/winter-institute-2024.