2022 Garage Sale Thread

[Ole Slewfoot]

I had to grab these craftsman wrenches with the 6 point box end, don't see a lot of these.

Hm, I see even less Plomb flex drivers

 

[LesserSon]

Just got back from 8am opening of a city govt furniture clearout. https://www.allentownpa.gov/Home/News-Archive/ID/1723/Cash-and-Carry-Public-Sale-This-Weekend
Hoping to get a couple 36”H shallow-drawer cabinets cheap (it’s “make an offer”), but what was there was too tall, too low, too deep, too specialized, or too heavy for my needs. Still a couple dozen standard height file cabinets, if someone close enough was looking for them. I don’t have the space.

 

[MisterEd]

As noted elsewhere, we are frequent estate sales and yesterday we did two which seemed promising. The first was a former "fish camp". The SigO did her usual digging and retrieved most of the accompanying assortment of long unused and misplaced tool history.

 

[MisterEd]

At the second place, a relocation and downsizing, the SigO asked whether we should buy individual wrenches from a tool box or the entire tool box for $15. The box is outside recovering from a cleaning, but the embossed label and view of the contents is here. The top carrying handle is missing but otherwise the box is in fine condition. And who doesn't want a stainless steel float?

 

[Old Radar]

A lot of great finds, everyone! MisterEd ***** for all that rusty gold! I've got a nice couple of finds to post but have been up to my armpits the last few days with landscapers beginning to xeriscape the front & back yard.

I will report a live tin medic sighting yesterday at a sale. He says he's been really busy, hasn't looked at the thread since before January and didn't realize I was Host for '22. Pffftt!! Bending a quote from Ron Weasley, "She needs to sort out her his priorities!"

Hey yall, what in the world is this called.... Anyone know?

Nm found it! Scissor hook!

RT, I've also seen this on chains for a quick secure hookup (within its weight class of course)

Here is something similar I found on the deck of a Japanese freighter at the bottom of Truk Lagoon about 35 years ago. Each is 1.5 inches long and made of brass.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

see even less Plomb flex drivers

It's a Proto, but that's where my eyes went, too!

The first was a former "fish camp". The SigO did her usual digging and retrieved most of the accompanying assortment of long unused and misplaced tool history.

I don't normally grab cranks unless they're interesting or unusual, but that one with its offset handle and the meatball counterweight surely would have come home with me! I am also interested in seeing the belt buckle. I see the 1955, but what is the emblem?

the embossed label and view of the contents is here

Postwar 11-digit FSN era Air Force box. The contract numbers often have the year embedded in them. If that's a "65", you can bet on it being made in 1965 or shortly thereafter. Matches your service very well! As you can imagine, they grew legs even before they were surplus due to their capacity and utility. A very popular cantilevered box.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I had the kind of haul (Lugz 2022_11) at the flea market that would make me say, 'I had a GREAT day, even if I do say so myself,' and judging only by my own standards. Which is funny because I almost didn't go. Saturdays are not the best, usually Fridays and Sundays, and I'm kind of into a good novel right now, but it was 60* F at 0730, and it's supposed to snow tomorrow, believe it or not.

But I'll have to itemize it - and tell a funny story - later.

For now, go ahead and guess what zazzed my zing the most.

 

[txlonghorn1989]

saukit Nice haul. Interesting plane. I think you've got a Stanley cutter, possibly Stanley chipbreaker & lever cap with another maker's body. That lateral adjustment lever is NOT Stanley style. Please post it in the "Show us your handplanes" thread over in the Vintage Forum.

Lugz Did you seriously find THREE drag link sockets in one fell swoop?! I'd like to be so lucky. The books look really interesting.

 

[Smokeshow69]

Took the day off to hit a few sales, first up was a pretty lightly sorted garage with quite a few tools in it. Lots of people also, in the 1/2 hour or so I was there they picked the place clean

Too much stuff to list it all but I liked the Snap on speeder, SK deep socket set, Bonaloy DBE, and the Plomb 1/2" pebble.



Next was an old car guy clearing out one of his spaces. Not much in the way of tools but I did pick up an interesting plane. Marked Stanley rule and level on the iron and the frog is cast into the body of the plane. Hoping this is an old one because it's in pretty nice shape but I haven't done the research yet. This guy was $10





Last, hit a sale that didn't seem to have much in the way of good tools on the surface. But there were a few neglected storage bins laying around that gave up some decent stuff, the stuff on the right is plomb, left is Snap on, rats are challenger and SK. I had to grab these craftsman wrenches with the 6 point box end, don't see a lot of these.

That p&c hinge handle still has the price tag on it! Also that wilpen dbe is plomb fyi.

 

[genog]

Sellers told me that Saturday is a slow day at the Flea Market, so......
Most of these tools were a dollar as long as I bought a bunch


Nothing Super Duper, but I said, ok....

 

[MisterEd]

I am also interested in seeing the belt buckle. I see the 1955, but what is the emblem?

Gypsy Tour 1955.

HISTORY OF LACONIA MOTORCYCLE WEEK & THE NEW ENGLAND GYPSY TOUR

SigO was unaware of ther Buckle's significance, but as a former Harley rider it figures it'd fine its way to her hands.

She had a similar reaction to the JAXON crank.

 

[saukit]

saukit Nice haul. Interesting plane. I think you've got a Stanley cutter, possibly Stanley chipbreaker & lever cap with another maker's body. That lateral adjustment lever is NOT Stanley style. Please post it in the "Show us your handplanes" thread over in the Vintage Forum.

This is what I was a little afraid of. The lever cap also doesn't really seem to be appropriate to an early Stanley plane. Oh well, at least the iron and possibly chip breaker will be worth the effort I was originally planning to use it until I saw that the frog was cast into the sole. I'll clean it up and post some better pics on the VB, the only mark I saw on it was a "2" where the patent numbers are usually marked on Stanleys.

That p&c hinge handle still has the price tag on it! Also that wilpen dbe is plomb fyi.

I think the hinge handle with the tag on it is marked Plomb. And thanks for the heads up on the Wilpen, when I grabbed it I thought that some of their stuff was made by someone else but I couldn't remember who!

 

[LesserSon]

Lugz
Well, all those items are possibilities, but I guess the Plomb carbon scraper is a period-correct rarity you’ve been hunting for years.
The two items most intriguing to me are the Mack S-spanner and the Kon-tiki crewman memoire.

 

[wrenchguy]

MACK truck wrench in caps??

 

[Old Radar]

For now, go ahead and guess what zazzed my zing the most.

I initially thought it was Kon Tiki and I by the navigator that made the voyage successful, but then I realized GM's Eastern AC Div history was the deal of the day--depending on what you paid for it.
The flask seems interesting from the photo, too.

 

[Cruzan80]

I am curious what is in the B&S box too...
Along with the others

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Did you seriously find THREE drag link sockets in one fell swoop?! I'd like to be so lucky.

I thought at first that they might've been a mixed-brand GMTK set, but two are the same size and from the same mfgr (Walden), just different eras. Everything there came from the same house, same estate liquidators' load, including the books. The guy was a man's man, no shade tree mechanic, and I'd bet my next paycheck he was a WWII vet.

The books look really interesting.

Yessir!

If you don't recognize the "Kon-Tiki" reference, google that or Thor Heyerdahl. In my youth, I knew Heyerdahl from the Ra (1969) and Ra II (1970). I probably read the Nat Geos devoted to those expeditions into smithereens. But he is most famous for building and sailing the powerless Kon-Tiki from Peru to Tahiti in 1947, to prove his theory that it was possible, and that ancient American and Asian cultures are linked.

The other book was published in 1944 by GM to celebrate their part in the war.

Gypsy Tour 1955.
HISTORY OF LACONIA MOTORCYCLE WEEK & THE NEW ENGLAND GYPSY TOUR

Glad I asked! Fabulous reading.

 

[Outlawmws]

I don't think Lugz said it was the books, so I'm going way put and say the flask - it has to be something subtle... WWI?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Well, all those items are possibilities, but I guess the Plomb carbon scraper is a period-correct rarity you’ve been hunting for years.
The two items most intriguing to me are the Mack S-spanner and the Kon-tiki crewman memoire.

MACK truck wrench in caps??

I initially thought it was Kon Tiki and I by the navigator that made the voyage successful, but then I realized GM's Eastern AC Div history was the deal of the day--depending on what you paid for it.

Mike for the ringer! The Mack S-shaped double-ended hook spanner doesn't have the script logo that all the other Mack tools in my collection have, but I have never seen anything like it before, and it bears the forge mark of its crosstown industrial neighbor maker (zip it, LS, let someone else guess! ) on the flip side. I will post more on the Mack thread down on the VB.

But you guys are all throwing very good leaners with the Kon-Tiki and I book guess. Top 3 for sure. The text and illustrations were started on the raft during the voyage! I will be posting more photos on Beemer's Books thread down on the VB.

I see the Eastern book selling close to $100 in some places, OR, but I didn't know that when I bought it. You know I don't usually like to talk prices, but if you know flea markets you can pretty much guess. Put it this way. Everything you see came out of the same estate liquidator's load (I'm pretty sure the PO may have worked at the Linden plant making Avengers and Wildcats), which was spread out on the ground in dozens of boxes, and when the liquidator tallied up the things in the pile I had presented to him, he was counting by $2's, and then I got a quantity discount.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The flask seems interesting from the photo, too.

I'm going way put and say the flask - it has to be something subtle... WWI?

I'm thinking 19th century. Pretty sure the cap is sterling. The flask itself is pewter. The artwork says Dutch to me. Do the initials (possible E. & J. and illegible after that) mean anything to anyone? I haven't tried looking yet. (I got interrupted by a videocall from my son and DIL letting us know the gender of grandbaby #2! )

The repair (bottom left corner) needs another repair. He wanted X and when I showed him the pin hole it became Y.

 

[Outlawmws]

My meager finds today beautiful weather, only one planned stop - two if you count the Freecycle PU:

Only thing I paid for was $5 for the Vintage gun case 98% certain he had a 30-30 in it (Dymo tape with "30-" still on it...)
The leather panel needs oils other than that in fine shape! Even the zipper is good, and a better zipper than most have.



From the Free pile, the binder clips are for my camp setup (can always use more) adn are made in the USA! so older!



And one for my son. A Workmate 525 - can be used as a hand truck or fold down to a 30" work top/Vise - the Jaw material is laminated Bamboo, so a HUGE improvement over the particle board versions!

I don't know how many of you have used things made from bamboo, but I'm a definite fan. It's stable, HARD, and strong, Not particularly brittle and no splinters in my experience. Not bad for a "Grass"

I want to find a source for buying raw materiel... I

 

[txlonghorn1989]

Outlaw What do you use those clips for when camping?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I am curious what is in the B&S box too...

It was empty, Cruzer. But, like all peculiar, patient, penny-pinching pickers, I had a plan for it, and it's not empty anymore! You may recall I found a similar Lufkin box last year, with a B&S micrometer inside it. (See Pics 4 & 5.) I don't think it's the exact same B&S micrometer that came in the box, but it's a heckuva lot closer to correct in its new home than the Lufkin!

 

[Outlawmws]

Outlaw What do you use those clips for when camping?

I use the heavy silver tarps as canopies, al least one side staked to the ground. this one had short poles on one side and bungies for guy lines. this helps in wind storms...

then I have custom cut lesser tarps for the sides and I use the binder clips to hold the edges together. It works great as long as the edges have the cord bound in, so those cut edges are folded over cord and contact cement holds the hem together.



This is the idea, usualy I have half that spacing it serious weather is expected



Lots of space:





Even with the tent trailer inside (Also part of the canopy support):




See the Garbage bag to the left? Clipped to the table edge...

 

[Arne73]

I'm thinking 19th century. Pretty sure the cap is sterling. The flask itself is pewter. The artwork says Dutch to me. Do the initials (possible E. & J. and illegible after that) mean anything to anyone? I haven't tried looking yet. (I got interrupted by a videocall from my son and DIL letting us know the gender of grandbaby #2! )

The repair (bottom left corner) needs another repair. He wanted X and when I showed him the pin hole it became Y.

E&J is a brandy but the mark is more of a makers mark.
The vintage seems too early for a promotional item and doesn't fit the Dutch theme.
Just my .02
Congratulations on the new grandbaby!

 

[Raineman]

A very dear friend passed away 2 years ago, and from time to time little items from his estate come to me from his family as a gift.

His son in law called me at work this morning and said he was going through some things. A little while later he came in the back door of the office and asked me to come outside to see if I wanted something. With a big smile he opened his door and said,” I think he would want you to have this”

Snap on KRA53. Needs a key.

 

[RedVise]

Brazed homemade crowsfoot ???? My dad didnt weld but I would see various pieces he brazed over the years.

 

[RedVise]

A mixed bag today, just the way I like it!
2 cribbage boards(intended for a table top), leather working tools next to them,
2 oepn end wrenches, red handle putty knive, brass letter opener, nozzle and bottle opened. Small impliment (?) wrench, another open end wrench, small ruler, screwdriver, 2 tape measures, pipe thread cutters in original box, rams head, a spring spreader (Gemco) and a machinists plate(?).
Big plane (plane iron is marked T. Dwight Jr & Co Warranted Cast Steel), 2 oil cans, 2 sharpening stones, rough level. The rest in this pic are barber items. The razor on the right is a faux bone design, pretty neat. Razors are from USA, Germany and Sweden. Bottom left is a honing stone and the Rolls Razor sharpens razors. Will have to post a pic of that open, pretty neat.
Also picked up a Stanley Tools catalog(Great !) and cheap some cast iron.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

E&J is a brandy but the mark is more of a makers mark.
The vintage seems too early for a promotional item and doesn't fit the Dutch theme.
Just my .02

Thanks for the lead, Arne!

Congratulations on the new grandbaby!

DIL is just 3 months along, but these kids these days want to know everything right away! We always preferred the surprise.

Brazed homemade crowsfoot ???? My dad didnt weld but I would see various pieces he brazed over the years.

Yessir1 Check out the 'Chopped' thread down on the VB for a closer look.

 

[RTM]

Do the initials (possible E. & J. and illegible after that) mean anything to anyone?

Ernest and Julio Gallo? Unfortunately, jumped in to mind as soon as I saw E & J. Sorry.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

2 cribbage boards (intended for a table top), leather working tools next to them,

That brings a tear to the eye. My old man the salty dog taught us to play and loved to play. Our set had a nail for one of the pegs, which was missing. I haven't played in years.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Ernest and Julio Gallo?

Haha. Let's hope not!

 

[RTM]

Haha. Let's hope not!

That’s why I apologized up front, just for bringing it up.

 

[Arne73]

Ernest and Julio Gallo are the E&J of E&J Brandy...

 

[LesserSon]

Thank you for sharing the pics of your camping setup, Outlaw. Inspirational!

 

[RedVise]

That brings a tear to the eye. My old man the salty dog taught us to play and loved to play. Our set had a nail for one of the pegs, which was missing. I haven't played in years.

My dad played everyday during lunch with a buddy at work. Many years. My brother learned it, I never cared for it.
I got a stash of boards waiting for the right table to come along.

Want a board ? I can send one your way.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Want a board ? I can send one your way.

No, thanks for the offer, though. We have one.

 

[Outlawmws]

My dad taught me to play as well. I used to play at work during lunch hour - back when you had an hour for lunch...

Playing pairs, they made one other guy and myself stop playing as a pair; we were unbeatable. Just something about we both played to help the other guy; there was no cheating or signals involved. Some sort of empathy?

Your Welcome LS! and thx!

 

[Old Radar]

I'm thinking 19th century. Pretty sure the cap is sterling. The flask itself is pewter. The artwork says Dutch to me. Do the initials (possible E. & J. and illegible after that) mean anything to anyone? I haven't tried looking yet. (I got interrupted by a videocall from my son and DIL letting us know the gender of grandbaby #2! )

The repair (bottom left corner) needs another repair. He wanted X and when I showed him the pin hole it became Y.

I thought that looked like a windmill in your original photo!

Most likely E.&J.B.
E. & J. BASS - New York, NY
manufacturers of sterling silver and silverplate ware. Active c. 1890 - c. 1930 with factory at 610-618 Broadway and salesroom at 339 Fifth Avenue, New York. Owners of Empire Art Metal Works.

 

[gearhead1960]

Hit two estate sales today with SWMBO. First time in a long time. At first sale, picked up some decently made hand tools that will act as backups, but don't really warrant pictures, but did find this....
Anyone know what this is, as I'm not familiar with it....

Second sale, was a gun and train buff. Didn't care about the train ****, but did pick up some nice one piece coated gun cleaning rods, with the longest being 44" and some books.


Last item will be my coat hook for the garage.....