Thanks Tom for the catalog picture, it matches perfectly. The stock part of
the name is obvious when you think about it. I should have stated that the
slightly larger central hole between each block has thread cut in it. I now
remember a similar ancient tool on a much larger scale in one of our farm
sheds back in Tasmania. My father had a conventional set of dies so I never
saw the stock and die set used, and it may have been missing some of the
dies.

Thanks all, Happy thanksgiving, John.
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"Jack" wrote in message ...
John wrote:

I picked up this tool a while back.

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/r.../PICT2082e.jpg

I think it is a threading plate. Sizes marked are 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, &
18, the second digit being a little smaller and superscripted. Are these
tenths of mm. and does someone know how this tool is used?

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No, what you have is a stock & dies set.
See the difference he

http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/stocksndiesetc.jpg

From a 1910 cat.
Tom


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