Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

I got the best gift EVER yesterday from my TOTALLY AWSOME wife !

Vintage, Gerstner & Sons machinists tool box! The box has been refurbished, but is in incedible shape. Quarter sawn oak, finger joints at the corners. Looks like the original hardware. The key is missing so some one added the little "flipper" at the top. The back has been replaced, the felt is new and it has been refinished on the outside. Original leather handle. I think it is an early model # 31 Any one with info on the box please chime in

I have started to fill it with relics and coins.........

VPR

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

More pics!

 

[dwayne sueno]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

wowee! that is one sweet box.
i imagine you were able to fill that one up pretty fast.
your problem now might be that you won't be able to find another box as nice as that one.
but that's a good problem to have...

 

[mainer]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

That thing is beautiful. And a good idea to put your finds in too.

 

[KRAZYHORSES]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

nice box for treasure !! better yet fill it up in 2011 and maybe next year you will start a chest collection

 

[warsawdaddy]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

Great gift.Great box.When I was still working as a machinist,1964,a coworker had an original one that looked like brand new.I really envied it.

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

nice box! now show us what's in the darn drawers!

 

[teleman 2525]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

very nice gift good place for your best finds merry xmass happy new year from a fellow detector and vermonter

 

[crazyjarhead]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

Nicebox VpR That will come in andy until it get's full

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

nice box! now show us what's in the darn drawers!

Here are a few "inside" pics. Still a work in progress.

VPR

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

A few more pics.

 

[KRAZYHORSES]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

nice box! now show us what's in the darn drawers!

Here are a few "inside" pics. Still a work in progress.

VPR

nice collection how many years did it take to display draw 1 with those old rosettes all awesome

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

nice box! now show us what's in the darn drawers!

Here are a few "inside" pics. Still a work in progress.

VPR

nice collection how many years did it take to display draw 1 with those old rosettes all awesome

I have been at it for four years. I have my better buttons in other cases. I am sure that what is in the box will change from time to time

VPR

 

[70monte68]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

Awesome display box!

 

[Mark S.]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

I use one of my boxes for detecting finds. The other has all the tools in it. I work in front of a computer now telling the machines to do what I use to do by hand. So not much use for the boxes anymore. The boxes make nice displays.

Here's a tip. You can buy the compartmented inserts for the Riker Mount type display cases seperate from the cases. Cut them to fit and put them in the drawers. I also did that with foam ring trays.

 

[VERMONTPACKRAT]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

I use one of my boxes for detecting finds. The other has all the tools in it. I work in front of a computer now telling the machines to do what I use to do by hand. So not much use for the boxes anymore. The boxes make nice displays.

Here's a tip. You can buy the compartmented inserts for the Riker Mount type display cases seperate from the cases. Cut them to fit and put them in the drawers. I also did that with foam ring trays.

Great idea ! Thanks for the tip

VPR

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

thats the kind of box that all of us collectors like

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

That's a great looking display case!
When I first saw it I thought . . . maybe it had belonged
to a US Army Dental Surgeon and was full of false teeth!

>Dave<

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

Let me know if that Blacksmith doesn't fit. I might have the extra space here.

As for the cabinet, it's perfect!

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Re: Gerstner & Sons box, Display cabinet. Gift from wife !!

That is one gorgeous Fly Tying Table! The "vise" would attach at the slide out on the plate, and the materials would be stored in the drawers. It's really a good one.

Solid oak and first class.