An assortment of professional woodworking tools, including woodturning chisels and a heavy-duty mortise chisel. The collection features a Robert Sorby woodturning tool with a light-colored hardwood handle, bearing the maker’s name stamped in red cursive script. A second long-handled woodturning gouge features a similar wooden handle with a brass ferrule. A specialized Robert Sorby sash mortise chisel is included, constructed with a thick, square-section steel blade and a wooden handle reinforced with a steel hoop at the striking end and a steel ferrule; the original red cardboard packaging tab is present, printed with the characters 288 and SASH MOR. Another Robert Sorby woodturning scraper of wide, flat form is present in its original plastic sleeve with a hang-tab printed with 7203H, STEADY, and Robert Sorby. The lot also contains a large bevel-edged bench chisel with a bulbous wooden handle featuring a black and gold decal with the legible letters M, A, and S, likely for the maker Marples?. The steel blades are of Sheffield manufacture, paired with turned ash? or beech? handles.
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