Raphael Arthur Salaman FSA (24 April 1906 – 31 December 1993) was an English engineer, collector, and writer.
[3] The Salaman family were Ashkenazi Jews,[4] who, according to his father, migrated to Britain from either Holland or the Rhineland in the early 18th century.
He collected hand tools related to trades that were becoming less common, including those of wheelwrights, coopers, farriers, saddlers and dairy workers.
In 1959 he worked on a piece entitled, The Wheelwright's Art in Ancient China with Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen.
[9] Raph retired early and dedicated himself to compiling two definitive books about hand tools[10] that have become standard reference works and are in the holdings of many libraries worldwide.
Some of his catalogues, price lists, books and drawings featured in an auction sale organized by David Stanley and held in Loughborough in 1987.