.50 cent estate sale find

[Carson Coin Master]

I found this in a random box of books on Saturday at an estate sale, I almost looked over it and went on my merry way but after some more browsing I thought about it and just couldn't pass it up. So the guy said .50 cents and i didn't argue or haggle at all I thought fair price for a potentially rare book. I am still trying to do research on it and have found very little info that is pointing me toward a possible value. I will keep you folks posted if I find out anything new. I also have this posted in What is it? section just in case.

 

[kilmer]

Wow, in 1914 I would figure most people were worrying about hay for Bessie. That is a pretty cool book and I bet an even better read for the same people it was aimed at back then. I have two early car books, that look like yours. I am sure I have looked at the date, but since seeing yours I am going to go "dig them up" and check.

Nice fine, Don

 

[RiverRat3]

My wife and I watch the antiques roadshow on TV and we recently saw an early 1900's car repair manual worth over $500. It was for the Ford Model T but the appraiser said early car manuals are a much collected item. I would check Ebay to give you some sort of idea. Great find, its a piece of history.

 

[creeper71]

with a very quick search(around 10mins) this is what I came up with

Author(Authors) Name: Swingle C F/ Tarantous H A

Title: Automobile Catechism and Repair Manual


Binding: Softbound
Book Condition: Condition 2 in a range of 5 conditions with 0 being the best and age being taken into consideration
Publisher: Drake 1914+
Number of pages: 164 pages

Seller ID: 11972



Price = 40.00 USD

 

[Gator-Flea]

Good fine!!

 

[Carson Coin Master]

well we will see what happens I went ahead and listed this item on ebay starting price 30.00 lets see how high it can go.

 

[dfx willy]

cool !! get back to us. i have some from the 30s. willy

 

[allen]

that would be an awesome conversational piece !!