1″ hollow and round pair by Treman Brothers, Ithaca

Description

Matched H&R pair, clearly made from the same wooden stock, but with two different markings – one is the Pollak “A” mark, the other the Pollak “B”; both rate two stars for rarity.

These were doubtless made before 1857, but are exceptionally clean and crisp.   Cutters need some lapping, but a little WD40 and some wet/dry paper will take care of that.

The Treman name has long been associated with Ithaca – a branch of the business still existed during my childhood in the early 1960’s,  there’s a state park in Ithaca named for the family, and a Treman was a Cornell trustee well into the 1990’s.  And then, of course, there’s Trumansburg — named for the Tremans, corrupted into “Trumansburg”, and the site of the original Moog synthesizer factory.