Tool Chests - Cabinets - Boxes - Totes - Benches/Cabinets &c., &c., &c.

The need to protect, store and organize tools has existed since tools were first made. I have no doubt the first humanoid to walk the earth looked around and thought, "I have made this tool, now where am I going to put it?" Since then, the ingenuity of the tool maker in creating ever more inventive, often complex, often deceptively simple yet proportionaly precise and (often) very attractive containers for tools has held our attention.

This gallery of the Toolemera Museum is dedicated to that ingenuity that drives us to explore the varieties and designs of tool chests, cabinets, boxes, totes and those odd bench/cabinet combinations. As examples are found or contributed, categories and sub-categories will be added.

NOTE: Tool Chests is open to Contributors. If you have a new or old chest, cabinet or other container you'dl like to see displayed here, please send an email before sending images. Send An Email

Ephemera - Ads, Billheads, Catalog Entries, &c.

• Billhead - A. J. Wilkinson & Co. 1864

Chests - Vintage

• Chest with enclosure for Asher Benjamin book

Chests - Modern

• Machinist Chest - Made by Jeff Gorman
• Woodworking & Engraving Tools by Catherine Kennedy

Chests - Plans

• Classic Floor Chest c1933; contributed by Jeff Gorman

Cabinets - Vintage

Cabinets - Modern