The Thonet models No. 1, 2, and 4 mark the beginning of industrial bentwood furniture design.
Before Vienna, before No. 14—there was the Boppard chair: the design that turned wood-bending from experiment into technique.
Rabone made folding laths, tee squares, bench rules, and combination squares for trade use.
Rabone machine-divided steel rules were precision measuring tools manufactured in Birmingham, England. Produced in various patterns, they featured both imperial and metric graduations for engineering and workshop use.
John Rabone & Sons produced some of the most durable and precisely marked pocket tape measures of the mid-20th century.
For much of the 20th century, John Rabone & Sons produced some of the most trusted spirit levels used by engineers, builders, and craftsmen across Britain and the Commonwealth.
John Rabone & Sons spirit levels set the standard in early 20th-century British toolmaking—durable, precise, and built to last.
Pocket instruments of boxwood and brass, Rabone’s caliper gauges fused compact ingenuity with workshop-grade precision.
A brisk introduction to John Rabone’s two-foot boxwood folding rules.
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