I'm finally back in the game after a full month of nada!
I spied a little unidentifiable box in the ES pictures and using my keen navigational skill, triangulated its position in the garage so when the starting bell sounded, I was first to find it. More than one of the guys who beat me into the garage said they were after it, but couldn't find it. It turned out to be a Kennedy Mechanics Kit. Measurements of 14x7x9 make it a No. 114. Early versions show up in 1916 & 17 catalog excerpts, this one makes appearances in 1924, 27 & 30. In the 1941 cat, larger versions are available, but this size has vanished.
I was expecting it to be empty, but found a load of long-arm cleaning equipment and supplies.
It would be an understatement to say everything was well oiled. The two Hoppe's pamphlet's pages are stuck together and very brittle--the No. 9 has a 1946 printing date. I have no idea what the group of gray and brass sliders are--sound off if you know!
Of particular interest are the two wooden cleaning rods. The lighter one on top is unmarked but the darker one is stamped B.G.I. Co, with a patent date of Feb 9, 1892. BGI is Bridgeport Gun Implement Co. and the patent concerns the manufacture of the threaded rod couplings.
Also included was an M10 .30cal cleaning rod from 1954--the box is completely soppy with gun oil. Two more items I am at a loss to identify are the pair of obvious wrenches, but for what application, and the small steel rod threaded into a very sturdy steel protective case. The case is stamped on the end with SI or possibly IS, depending on which way you hold it--a true labeling blunder.
I also picked up a 3/8 Blackhawk 3" extension and a Snap-on Ferret F-6 extension with an E ('44) date code.
Everything totaled $30, but after exiting, one of the guys I see frequently at sales was curious about the contents, and noting some apparent gun sighting hardware in one of the small compartments, he offered and I accepted $15 for the very small handful of bits I had absolutely no use for. So, $15 on the day.
In the left behind category:
A nearly 8-foot jointer plane (note the door frame) for $150.
Total scum lowlifes... Pulse some of the other trash was out of comfortable reach, so woudl be ahndy adn what the heck, saves the back too.
I definitely did not need another pipe wrench but for seven bucks at the restore, I could not say no. The knife was a dollar.
