Thonet chairs Model No. 7, 8, 11, and 12, developed between 1855 and 1857, represent key innovations in early industrial bentwood furniture production in Europe.
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.
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