2024 Garage Sale Thread (13th Annual)

[Private Lugnutz]

It has an odd diamond shaped logo etched in it as well as Made in Germany and DRP stamped in the neck.

Very nice find! "DRP" is the German marking for patented, essentially. The logo is a stylized "S.W.F.", for Spezial Werkzeugefabrik Feuerbach. It's the ratchet for a wonderful set they were exporting to the UK and US in the 1920's. One of my all-time favorites. You noticed the ratchet hinges in three different positions. The sockets are male drive tang. Really beautiful tools. I have three sets, in wooden boxes, and some partials. Thread of discovery, research, and many examples here.

They stand next to you, breathing all over you while you are looking at stuff. They tear things apart and leave a mess. They way they act is despicable and it's mostly older people too. I truly can't stand these people.

Proper decorum is going down at flea markets, too. Seems like every other week I am giving someone a dirty look or actually having to tell someone to get their mitts out of a box my hands are obviously already inside.

 

[Provincial]

On the way home, I stopped by a sale at a nearby small town. Prices were not that cheap, but there were plenty of interesting items.

Sockets:
Craftsman =V= deep 3/8 dr. 12-pt. 1/2 (replaces one that was lost a while ago)
Snap On SPF 180 9/16 6-pt. power socket
P&C 1/2 dr. 12-pt. 1", 15/16, 7/8, 13/16, 5/8 (2), 9/16 (2), 7/16
P&C 3/8 dr. 12-pt. swivel 1/2, 3/8
Body hammer with octogon handle. No markings on head. Handle "Hickory"
Lumber crayon holder (user)
Proto LA combo 5/8
Vlchek DBE WBC1214 3/8 x 7/16
Long-C combo "CI" 11/16
Williams Superrench combos 3/8, 11/16, 3/4, 7/8 (users)
New Britain battery terminal puller

I'm sure I can fill in the P&C 1/2 dr. sockets with my spares, so this will be a complete set, 3/8 to 1".

 

[Provincial]

Mr. Wonderful gets a **** for the extension cord!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

a Deere stamped DOE 1/2 x 11/16, and a Walden laminated SBE 11/16 6-pt.

Nice finds, Jock.

 

[83VillageRepair]

Bog Country Swapmeet, I couldn't pass this up. I wouldn't have cut it but I like it.
Left behind reluctantly 33 ford pickup with an early hemi. Only 35k


I also left behind Lois Lanes 1971 Tbird for $7500

 

[Debcrow]

A few items today:

International Harvester 1595F wrench
Lenox 6 in PH screwdriver
German knockoff PH screwdriver, no maker mark
Southington 500 S wrench #500
Handheld Made in USA vise, no maker mark
Wall hanging Box

 

[RTM]

Curious if you have tried vinegar/mild acid to sharpen yourself versus Boggs Sharpening? I've not done either but I'd ~think~ you'd get 60-70% sharper with the acid method versus the cost of sharpening on common files. I wouldn't attempt it with a costly file like Nicholson 49/50's but I think for common files might be good enough??? Its one of those thoughts I consider when my old employer goes through 100+ laminate files in a year.

I have not, but other friends have. The guy who hooked me up with Boggs used to send brand new files to Boggs, it made that much difference in his opinion. also on His opinion, the vinegar fix did not last very long. He was filing thick steel for plane blades as a boutique maker.

 

[Old Radar]

They way they act is despicable and it's mostly older people too.

Get off my lawn, ya snot nosed kid!!

 

[Raineman]

For those of you who have been following my new adventure, I wanted to give you an update on Raineman’s Garage Sale Ranch. I know I’ve been “encouraged” to post stuff like this in a different forum, but you guys are my people, so I’m posting here for the foreseeable future until I cave and start a new thread elsewhere.

We closed on the sale of our former home yesterday morning and closed on the purchase of our new property yesterday afternoon. It’s done and a heavy weight was lifted off my shoulders. I’ll start posting my finds soon. We gutted one room today and had several encroaching trees dropped. Good first day of ownership. We also found some great finds in the barn. Can’t wait to show you all.

Oh yeah, other than the new mortgage, we’re now completely out of debt and have a fair cushion of funds for the rehab.

 

[NYBODYMAN]

Very nice find! "DRP" is the German marking for patented, essentially. The logo is a stylized "S.W.F.", for Spezial Werkzeugefabrik Feuerbach. It's the ratchet for a wonderful set they were exporting to the UK and US in the 1920's. One of my all-time favorites. You noticed the ratchet hinges in three different positions. The sockets are male drive tang. Really beautiful tools. I have three sets, in wooden boxes, and some partials. Thread of discovery, research, and many examples here.

Proper decorum is going down at flea markets, too. Seems like every other week I am giving someone a dirty look or actually having to tell someone to get their mitts out of a box my hands are obviously already inside.

Thanks for the info Lugnutz. Were these marketed for the automotive field or something else? Do these have any value? I'm trying to search on ebay and finding nothing.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Were these marketed for the automotive field or something else?

Yes, nascent service market.

Do these have any value?

Not really. They are rare, but extremely obscure. If you are thinking of flipping it, one option might be to post it on the SWF thread and say something to the effect of it not being a keeper. That wouldn't break the 'No Sales' rule and if there's someone looking for one, they would PM you.

I'm trying to search on ebay and finding nothing.

That's probably because sellers don't know what it is. I don't know that I have ever seen the tools correctly identified anywhere outside of GJ.

 

[bmwrd0]

DRP = Deutsches Reichspatent.

I have a couple pre-WWII airguns, a Haenel III and an eM-Ge Zenit, that are marked with the DRP.

 

[RTM]

Here is another small haul for today, from the same place I hit back here. Now the son from out of town (owns an antique store) is running it as tool estate sale. Prices seem a bit high to me, but 50% off day brings them down to almost reasonable. Wasn't nearly the hunt it was the first time, things in tubs, the stuff under the workbenches was all in little plastic boxes, no rhyme or reason to how they were sorted, the usual.

Bunch of 4 Bonney, 1 Plomb, and one other swivel sockets, 8 pt Craftsman sockets, Cornwell mirror, unmarked, MAC and Proto socket trays, Champion Plugmaster and two different tommy bars 5/16 x 6" & 3/8" x 8", Sears auto adjusting nut driver, roll of cloth backed sandpaper, soft scrub brush. The Plugmaster is a different era of the one I got from my Grandfather 45+ years ago, so a spare to take the abuse, let grampa's rest a little.

 

[Outlawmws]

Found a few small items at the restore this week

What is the branding/size on the wind up tape? look small...

 

[Outlawmws]

Rainy weekend but a few sales stuck it out:

I also found the scout patch I thought I had lost or left last weekend, First estate sale was half off day, and pretty picked over - two whisky bottle bags, and a red candle for a buck:






Four bucks for these two tool catalogs - Copyright 1929 and 1958:




1929 inside:






I'l be posting more of the Vise pages in the Vise ID thread.




1958 Inside






Second yardsale - CD's Pink Floyd, I Walk The Line soundtrack, Celtic Hymns, and a primitive hand made copper candlestick: $2 all




The copper candlestick and red candle put together:



And the last sale; mostly a tools pick all for $5 - old Williams switching ratchet, No drive piece, but i have some, Williams EZ out, Plvmb DOE, extension, and 38 - 1/4 adapter (the attached pieces are junk), 2 Ignition wrenches, the stamped one is Dunlap (Sears) a Vaughn church key, 1 Bonney and 3 Indestro sockets, a NOS SPST switch, a Bass Pro keychain Multitool, and 2 battery post clamps,

 

[bmwrd0]

On that 1929 date, I used to work for that company: RR Donnelly. I was a logistics account manager.

Anyway, the weekend finds. On Friday, I hit two sales, and I am pretty sure they are the two that Provincial hit.

The first one was a charity tool sale, were I found the homemade drill index, Winchester boxwood rule, and Snap-on tm4. The next was a house clear out, with a labyrinthine shop. Here I found the Craftsman push drill (with bits), IH wrench, MAC DOE, Craftsman BE extension, Dunlap spinner, motor starter (untested), Wilson goggles case (no goggles) Cornwell and SK sockets.

Today, Saturday, I went back to the barn sale I was at last weekend. Prices weren't as good, but I was helping an old man who needed it and they were still better than eBay.

Stanley screwdrivers (one Hurwood), Xcelite reamer, bit brace reamer (with brazed crossbar), 4 chassis punches of various sizes, tap, tap box filled with bits, Craftsman reamer (in box), and Klein Bell System nippers.

I followed that up with an estate sale that had a lot of tools, sadly the ones I was interested were mostly gone.

North brothers Phillips, Armstrong Saltus, Mephisto adjustable, and a Spintite. After that I stopped at a garage sale on the way home, were I picked up the Herbrand breaker and extension. And, finally, I swung by my man Abe's bookstore, were I found a book on deep water sailing from '48.

 

[d42jeep]

I haven’t been able to get out to a sale since early February so I was happy to see a tool sale listed not too far from home. Although the rain finally ended it was cold and windy so I wasn’t as thorough as I normally would have been. I was pretty happy with what I found and the prices were fairly reasonable.
Craftsman sockets, mostly metric
Thorsen items including a long ratchet.
Snap-on and Blue Point. My first chrome Vacuum Grip pliers.
P&C breaker
Powr-Kraft tools
Plomb tools including an unusual pebble tool
Unusual crimping pliers
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

After I arrived at home and discussed the results of the sale with my usual copilot, she suggested that we go back and see what I missed. It had warmed up slightly by noon and we found a few more tools.
I found my second ever Diamond DC pliers
Powr-Kraft I had missed first time around
More Thorsen tools
S-K items
Lots more Craftsman metric sockets to flip.
Snap-on
Parallel jaw pliers
-Don

 

[LostBoy(IRL)]

My typical random assortment, some of these have the most rust on tools I have bought, but price was good. Main interest was the round tongs.
Which cleaned up well and opens nicely
Nippers are for a future project, the chisel looks to have been made from a file? Not sure tbh, probably Dunlop tyre iron, I can only make out dun and made in England, Ward plane iron for the parts box, little adjustable partial logo and name below, and a dowidat fixed socket 'item' and this confuses me, I had thought dowidat were gone by the end of the eighties, so is this a product number? More digging to do.


And after






All in all an ok morning, my coffee vendor wasn't there and don't like the other van, so missed my morning cuppa

 

[Outlawmws]

Nice finds Don!

Man, a month off - I hope you and your co-pilot are well!

 

[Outlawmws]

On that 1929 date, I used to work for that company: RR Donnelly.

Both were copy write to Donnelly. Small world! I wonder if Donnelly acquired Marwedel and kept the name?

Nice finds BMW!

 

[LesserSon]

Winchester boxwood rule
Mephisto adjustable

NICE finds!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Main interest was the round tongs. Which cleaned up well and opens nicely

Are you smithing?

probably Dunlop tyre iron, I can only make out dun and made in England,

Almost certainly. I have a bunch for my BSA

little adjustable partial logo and name below

That's going to bother me all day. I know I have seen it before, but can't dig it out of the cobwebs.

a dowidat fixed socket 'item' and this confuses me, I had thought dowidat were gone by the end of the eighties, so is this a product number?

Absolutely. Press-fit socket wrenches like this were gone by the 1930's, 1940's for sure.

Nice finds.

 

[LesserSon]

That's going to bother me all day. I know I have seen it before,

It looks like Outlaw’s avatar (with a bowler/derby instead of a slouch hat), plus “STATH” or “STAHL” or “STATE” or “STAND[ARD]” or “STANL[EY]”.

 

[RTM]

a dowidat fixed socket 'item' and this confuses me, I had thought dowidat were gone by the end of the eighties, so is this a product number?

I agree with Lugz on the product number. Can’t find a Dowidat catalog, but did find a Gedore, the brother’s company. This catalog has a 1997 as a breaker. Somewhere here on GJ there is also a 1997 Dowidat breaker pictured, so maybe they both re used the number after a few decades.

Gedore Suggested List Prices No. S 1960 : Gedore Werkzeugfabrik Otto Dowidat KG : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

92 p., illus., 27.7 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

 

[bmwrd0]

Both were copy write to Donnelly. Small world! I wonder if Donnelly acquired Marwedel and kept the name?

No. Donnelly was a printing company out of Chicago. They were the people you called for a good, quick, large job, and they printed hundreds of these hardbacks for various companies. I probably have a dozen or so. Oddly, the logistics of that print work, as we were the company that could print the NYT on both coasts and get it delivered everywhere daily, involved a massive logistics division, which got farmed out to other industries. I worked primarily in pharmaceutical distribution, cover all of northern CA and NV, although I did have a number of print accounts.

 

[RTM]

It doesn’t show upon Wolfgang’s page, dropping HAT into the detail.

Markensuche

Using the chance that since Stahl is German for Steel, it might be Germanic.

 

[LostBoy(IRL)]

Are you smithing?

Almost certainly. I have a bunch for my BSA

That's going to bother me all day. I know I have seen it before, but can't dig it out of the cobwebs.

Absolutely. Press-fit socket wrenches like this were gone by the 1930's, 1940's for sure.

Nice finds.

I'm building up to smithing, hopefully, did a day over at a friend of a friend's a couple of years back and they got my interest going, I pick suitable tools as I see them. At this stage I should just focus on getting some sort of a forge and just go for it.
I'm actually currently working on a smithing project! Pic below
I will be digging more on the other items, but will be this evening when I try suit at the PC rather than phone.


I make up these copper rings, 4-5 inch diameter from offcuts of copper pipe, my wife uses them in the garden to keep slugs from select plants. Two were requested earlier. Close them with copper roofing nails. Hopefully my first smithing project will be a little more challenging.

 

[Outlawmws]

Donnelly was a printing company out of Chicago.

Odd to me that the printer would copy write a company's catalog. I'd expect the owner to be the company. Maybe they assembled the content for many different end users?

 

[d42jeep]

Nice finds Don!

Man, a month off - I hope you and your co-pilot are well!

She is slowly getting around much better on her new knee. Lots of physical therapy. Thanks for asking.
-Don

 

[3baygarage]

It looks like Outlaw’s avatar (with a bowler/derby instead of a slouch hat), plus “STATH” or “STAHL” or “STATE” or “STAND[ARD]” or “STAN[LEY]”.

Man I thought the exact same thing. Must be Outlaw's Easter bonnet!

 

[WisJim]

Donnelly was a major publisher of catalogs of hardware and industrial supply companies. I just pulled a few old catalogs off my bookshelves and they were all copyright Donnelly, ranging from 1919 to 1958, California and Washington state to New York. I wonder how many companies they did the catalogs for.

 

[bmwrd0]

Also, most small print jobbers can't do hardcovers, they need to farm that out. So, if you are gonna spend the money in the first place, send your line cards to someone who can. Often they would use the same print material for years worth of stock.

 

[Provincial]

On that 1929 date, I used to work for that company: RR Donnelly. I was a logistics account manager.

Anyway, the weekend finds. On Friday, I hit two sales, and I am pretty sure they are the two that Provincial hit.

The first one was a charity tool sale, were I found the homemade drill index, Winchester boxwood rule, and Snap-on tm4. The next was a house clear out, with a labyrinthine shop. Here I found the Craftsman push drill (with bits), IH wrench, MAC DOE, Craftsman BE extension, Dunlap spinner, motor starter (untested), Wilson goggles case (no goggles) Cornwell and SK sockets.

Today, Saturday, I went back to the barn sale I was at last weekend. Prices weren't as good, but I was helping an old man who needed it and they were still better than eBay.

Stanley screwdrivers (one Hurwood), Xcelite reamer, bit brace reamer (with brazed crossbar), 4 chassis punches of various sizes, tap, tap box filled with bits, Craftsman reamer (in box), and Klein Bell System nippers.

I followed that up with an estate sale that had a lot of tools, sadly the ones I was interested were mostly gone.

North brothers Phillips, Armstrong Saltus, Mephisto adjustable, and a Spintite. After that I stopped at a garage sale on the way home, were I picked up the Herbrand breaker and extension. And, finally, I swung by my man Abe's bookstore, were I found a book on deep water sailing from '48.

Nice finds on the Winchester rule and the Herbrand.

You got there ahead of me for both sales. I had other stuff to do that put me at the Salem sale after 10 AM, and the other well past noon.

 

[83VillageRepair]

Bought these at a local online auction that clears out school and municipal surplus. I am going to turn them into streetlights in my shop. I also got an oak drafting table in the same auction. I have quite a few spare lenses if anyone is in need.

 

[i7083]

More suckage for Mr. Wonderful for the welder cord!

 

[gleman]

Bought these at a local online auction that clears out school and municipal surplus. I am going to turn them into streetlights in my shop. I also got an oak drafting table in the same auction. I have quite a few spare lenses if anyone is in need.

You ****!

I have a old street light base I've been meaning to turn into a tool stand.

 

[83VillageRepair]

You ****!

I have a old street light base I've been meaning to turn into a tool stand.

Thanks I was surprised they didn't go higher

 

[gleman]

Thanks I was surprised they didn't go higher

I didn't want ask about prices but I'm hoping they were a steal! I have fire, police and emergency boxes that were tossed when the city of Detroit removed them. I've never been able to purge or sell them.

 

[pfaustus]

A visit to Columbus this morning:
-two English carving chisels with very shallow sweep.
-a 1 1/2 firmer chisel. I couldn't see a name, but it turned out to be James Swan when I got home.
-an 18" perfect handle screwdriver that isn't bent from being used as a pry bar.
-Old Proto flare nut wrench
-Stanley power bore bit.
-And a Bowl or carving adz for $10!!!! I've had my eye out for one of these for I don't know how long. It was right near the end of the last row. My feet were barely touching the ground as I walked to the car.