billjustbill
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Going to a garage sale several weekends ago, in a housing area with homes 30' apart, this folding table was placed out by the curb with "Free" taped to it.... so, I stopped..... ;>) It's missing the plastic edge banding, but here's this weekend's newest antique tool finds on this table's top.
Saturday morning there was a community sale just outside of town. I found some industrial and hand tools I've never seen before. One is a triple auger bit gearbox used to make pocket mortises in one pass. Look at the age of those auger bits' design... The large screwdriver is another; it's the largest one I've ever seen.... The tools are in above average condition, have been wire-brushed, and then spray-sealed with a light dust coat of Lacquer.
When I first saw them, I picked out and bought ten of them for what the owners said they wanted: $50 We quickly left to look at other homes.....then, I began to think about what was left behind, so I went back and bought the remaining seven for $30. That's seventeen for less than $5 each! Most of these are "Keepers" for the workshop wall. A long pry bar has a 1901 pat. date and the Cherry wood level is a Stanley "Sweetheart" logo only made between 1925-29.... Then, my wife asked me if I saw the parking meter at the tool place, and because the adrenalin was gushing through my body, I said no. So we went back a third time, to the same house, and bought the parking meter from Alexandra, Louisiana for $5.....it works.
Saturday afternoon, went back to the flea market Saturday afternoon. Mixed attendance as the storms and rain kept away a lot of vendors. I walked passed a vendor selling nothing but used Sterling jewelry. All kinds. Sterling's worth is currently about .50 cents a gram. He had a lot of lookers and some buyers as I stood and watch. He, and his "Middle School Age" daughter had their jewelry scales weighing each piece when people wanted to know how much it cost. He was charging $2.00 a gram.
Due to her knee surgery, my wife waited in the pickup as I walked the flea market that I had already taken in on Friday afternoon. So, on the way back to our parking spot, I stopped at another vendor and looked through a large basket with jewelry in baggies. Managed to find Silver for her. A Sterling hinged bangle bracelet w/thin safety chain in a baggie was marked a $1. It weighs 11.5 grams.
Beginning last Thursday morning, it's been a 4-Day weekend of all different kinds of treasure.....
Bill
Saturday morning there was a community sale just outside of town. I found some industrial and hand tools I've never seen before. One is a triple auger bit gearbox used to make pocket mortises in one pass. Look at the age of those auger bits' design... The large screwdriver is another; it's the largest one I've ever seen.... The tools are in above average condition, have been wire-brushed, and then spray-sealed with a light dust coat of Lacquer.
When I first saw them, I picked out and bought ten of them for what the owners said they wanted: $50 We quickly left to look at other homes.....then, I began to think about what was left behind, so I went back and bought the remaining seven for $30. That's seventeen for less than $5 each! Most of these are "Keepers" for the workshop wall. A long pry bar has a 1901 pat. date and the Cherry wood level is a Stanley "Sweetheart" logo only made between 1925-29.... Then, my wife asked me if I saw the parking meter at the tool place, and because the adrenalin was gushing through my body, I said no. So we went back a third time, to the same house, and bought the parking meter from Alexandra, Louisiana for $5.....it works.
Saturday afternoon, went back to the flea market Saturday afternoon. Mixed attendance as the storms and rain kept away a lot of vendors. I walked passed a vendor selling nothing but used Sterling jewelry. All kinds. Sterling's worth is currently about .50 cents a gram. He had a lot of lookers and some buyers as I stood and watch. He, and his "Middle School Age" daughter had their jewelry scales weighing each piece when people wanted to know how much it cost. He was charging $2.00 a gram.
Due to her knee surgery, my wife waited in the pickup as I walked the flea market that I had already taken in on Friday afternoon. So, on the way back to our parking spot, I stopped at another vendor and looked through a large basket with jewelry in baggies. Managed to find Silver for her. A Sterling hinged bangle bracelet w/thin safety chain in a baggie was marked a $1. It weighs 11.5 grams.
Beginning last Thursday morning, it's been a 4-Day weekend of all different kinds of treasure.....
Bill
