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Well it looks like there might be the pieces for a beam compass in the drawers that can serve dual-use either in the shop or on the table.If those are drafting tools, I guess that I must be a draftsman, not a machinist!
I have boxes and boxes full of these exact tools from my uncle and his father . They came out of 1916 and 1937 Gerstners . I guess they used these for layout purposes back then . I find no purpose for the tools nowadays .
Edit . The 1916 is not a Gerstner box . I'll post a pic of it and hopefully someone can identify it .
Yep, you're correct - they are trammels over on the metal working side of life.Dan , I have a couple of those , I've always known them as trammels . My uncle's Dad had his own shop back in the early 1900s . My uncle was a machinist , worked at Crown Cork and Seal downtown Baltimore for 40 some years . He had a small shop also .
Back to those trammels , I have the round beam and also hexagon/octogon beam .