About Us

The Jonesport Wood Company operates three stores in Liberty, Hulls Cove and Searsport, Maine. We sell old tools, hardware, old books, antiquarian books, magazines, antiques, collectibles and miscellaneous items of every description. We have hundreds of thousands of items for sale including thousands of old tools. Woodworking tools, including hand planes, precision machinist tools and usable artifacts of all kinds are our special interest. For almost 35 years, we have purchased tool collections and estate lots and cleaned out cellars and attics in the New England area. We then ship these items to our stores in Maine. We have purchased tools and books at the approximate rate of 60 lots per month on a year-round basis since 1971.

If you have, or know of someone who has a collection of antiquarian tools, a shop lot of used tools or an estate lot of antiques and/or old books for sale anywhere in New England, please call our Boston answering service at (888) 405-2007 or (617) 558-3839, the Hulls Cove Tool Barn at (207) 288-5126 or check the contact information section of this Website for mailing addresses.

Please note our shop schedules. All stores are open year-round, with the exception of the Liberty Tool Co., which closes for re-stocking every January & February, and usually reopens the first Saturday in March at 8:00 AM for our annual "Rites of Spring" tool sale -- bring a hard hat.

The Great Wass Island Salvage Company is the name of our Internet Sales Department.  Please contact our sales coordinator for assistance with Internet and eBay listings.
 

Hulls Cove Tool Barn

P.O. Box 144
Breakneck Rd.
Hulls Cove, ME 04644-0144

(207) 288-5126
Fax (207) 288-2725
email: jwood@jonesport-wood.com

Hours:
Saturdays, 9 - 5 and Sundays 12 - 5, all year
July and August: Mon: Noon - 6, Tue - Sat: 8:30 - 6
Open other days by chance or appointment: Please Call ahead or stop by to see if anyone is here.

DIRECTIONS:

The Hulls Cove Tool Barn can be difficult to find for first time visitors to Mount Desert Island. For visitors coming long distances, take Rt. 3 from Augusta (I-95) all the way to Hulls Cove or take Rt. 1A from Bangor (I-395) to Ellsworth and pick up Rt. 3. When driving onto Mt. Desert Island, be sure to bear left on Rt. 3 at the light just beyond the Thompson Island Information Center (otherwise you could get thoroughly lost in the wilds of Mount Desert Island). Hulls Cove is just prior to the main entrance to Acadia National Park on Route 3, three miles north of (before) Bar Harbor as well as 16 miles south of (beyond) Ellsworth.

As you enter Hulls Cove you will see on your left the ocean and the Chart Room Restaurant. On your right will be the Hulls Cove General Store, Exxon Station and Post Office. Turn right at the Exxon station. After the pumps, the Breakneck Road goes diagonally up a small rise. Look for the large wooden sign for the Tool Barn and Davistown Museum. You will notice the Sculpture Gardens on your left and the red farmhouse on your right at the top of the rise. The Tool Barn is located just past the house.

If you pass the turn, just prior to the Acadia National Park Entrance you'll see a small sign directing you back .

DESCRIPTION:

The Hulls Cove Tool Barn is located on the second floor of the barn on the Hulls Cove property. The lower sections of the barn include shipping and receiving for all stores, a pricing room, an oiling room, tool cleaning room and three parts departments. Adjoining the barn is our repair shop, and a large greenhouse where we grow our tomatoes and flowers. The Tool Barn itself, the smallest of our three stores, also contains the most extensive selection of old woodworking hand tools of any of our stores. We offer a selection of several hundred hand planes, Stanley tools of all kinds as well as other collectible and/or patent-dated tools. We also maintain an interesting selection of antiquarian items (books, ephemera, crocks, lanterns, primitives, postcards, etc.) at this location. Due to space limitations, all power tools, contemporary items and used furniture are sold at the Liberty store.

Also located at the Hulls Cove property is the office, reference library and sculpture garden of The Davistown Museum.

Captain Tinkham's Emporium
P.O. Box 321
34 Main St.
Searsport, ME 04974

phone/fax (207) 548-6465
Inquiries call (207) 288-
email general questions: jwood@jonesport-wood.com
eBay and internet sales

Hours:
Winter: Saturdays 9 - 5
May - October: Sundays 10 - 4 {weather permitting or by appointment}

Open most holidays, except Thanksgiving and Christmas

DIRECTIONS:

Captain Tinkham's Emporium is on Main Street (Rt. 3 and Rt. 1) of downtown Searsport, Maine. It is directly across the street from the Grasshopper Shop.

DESCRIPTION:

Captain Tinkham's Emporium consists of a circa 1840 brick storefront, formerly the Captain Parker residence (National Register of Historical Buildings.) Most recently occupied by the Searsport Drugstore, Captain Tinkham's includes a tool annex (which is the main entrance) adjacent to the main book store. The main component of the store is devoted to books, prints, sheet music, records, magazines, glassware, antiques and collectibles. The tool annex has a nice selection of old tools and hardware. Due to space limitations, all power tools and used furniture are sold at the Liberty store.

Enter here for our photo tour of the store.
 

Liberty Tool Company

P.O. Box 346
Main St.
Liberty, ME 04949

(207) 589-4771

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hours:

March - Memorial Day: Wednesday - Sunday 9 - 5, Saturdays 8 - 5
June 4  - October 8: 7 days a week 9 - 5, Saturdays 8 - 5
October 15 - December 23: Thursday - Sunday 9 - 5, Sat 8 - 5 (We will be closed on Christmas Day)
December 29 - January 21: Saturday 8 - 5 and Sunday 9 - 5

The Liberty store is always closed in January & February for re-stocking. Usually the store will reopen the first Saturday in March for our Famous "Rites of Spring" Sale.  Next year's sale will be March 1st, 2008, 8 AM.

DIRECTIONS:

To get to Liberty, take Rt. 3 west from Belfast (17 miles) or east from Augusta (27 miles). Visitors to Liberty Tool Co. utilizing Route 3 have two opportunities to turn off of the main road and travel the two miles to the village. Coming from Augusta, the turnoff is via Rt. 220 into the center of the village (look for the Lake St. George State Park; the turn is just after the park.) Coming from Belfast, visitors will go up a hill past a rest area, pass an overlook with a nice view to the north then turn left at the bottom of the hill opposite a state of Maine DOT sandlot. Go two miles uphill into the village. Liberty Tool Co. is located next to the fire station and right across the street from the famous Liberty Graphics.

DESCRIPTION:

Enter here for our photo tour of the store.

The Liberty Tool Company consists of a four story balloon framed building built circa 1885. Until the Liberty Village General Store was constructed across the street in 1891 (six inches higher), this building was the largest structure between Belfast and Augusta. In the old days, Liberty, Maine, was a main overnight stagecoach stop with a number of hotels, canneries, foundries and other enterprises. The Liberty Tool Co. building was a general store with a rooming house on the second floor and a dance hall on the third floor. All these floors, as well as the cellar, are now utilized for the sale of old tools, hardware, antiques, trunks, used furniture, prints, postcards, books, magazines, records, glassware, pottery, toys, collectibles and any other interesting artifacts we can salvage from estate lots throughout New England.  Our tool annex is located across the street in the former Banks' Garage.

Visitors to Liberty please note that the Liberty Graphics outlet maintains approximately the same shop hours as the Liberty Tool Co. Both businesses are located just up the hill from the famous octagonal post office (on the Register of Historical Buildings in the scenic St. George River Valley.)

Reviews:
The Liberty Tool Co. is featured in the article "The Culture of Cultch" with photographs by Tom Crane in Down East: The Magazine of Maine, May 2003, 49(10), pg. 68-71.

The Liberty Tool Co. is featured in the article "Liberty Tool's annual opening may soon be history" by Tom Groening in the 3/8/04 issue of the Bangor Daily News.

Beyond 295: Tool Town by David Tyler, Port City Life, September/October 2004. 6(5). pg. 38-39.

NEW!!! "The Tools That Built Maine" See a wonderful new video featuring the tools and curator of the Davistown Museum and produced by the Maine Pubic Broadcasting Network show "Maine Experience." 

Associated Press News Release on Liberty Tool (CNN)

Boston Globe Article on The Davistown Museum (Boston Globe)