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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Edward Lloyd Parry's stonemason tools at the Church History Museum

A tool box filled with Edward Lloyd Parry's stonemason tools is on display at the LDS Church History Museum in Salt Lake City. The museum is directly west of Temple Square. As one enters the museum, the tour leads to the right and snakes through various displays. About 3/4 of the way through the tour, one comes around a bend and on the right there is a display called "Adorning Temples" (see the photo below). The panel in front has a picture of ELP. Behind the mural in the glass case is Parry's toolbox: 

(click on each photo to enlarge)

Here is an excerpt from the panel in front:

And here is a closeup of his toolbox:

The next three pictures are closeups of each of the three compartments within the toolbox, from left to right:
In this last picture, note the longer, chisel-shaped tool leaning to the left and seemingly propping open the lid. While my camera couldn't pick it up, it clearly has the initials "JLP" engraved on its handle. That tool, then, belonged to John Lloyd Parry (1864-1916), Edward Lloyd Parry's son. John Lloyd was ELP's fourth child, and one of the three sons who carried on the stonemason business into the twentieth century (the other two being Edward Thomas (1859-1938) and Bernard (1873-1940)).

1 comment:

  1. These tools are looking very important for stone mason.Thanks for sharing stone mason tools.Keep up !
    Posted by: Mary Davis | Stone Mason Tools

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