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I hope to get out this weekend to a couple of real sales but I have picked up a few interesting items recently... A nice set of Audel's books at a sale that I swore had nothing but Christmas ornaments... found these in a shed with a bundle of old comics. Also interesting pliers. Some early...

Ooh... this is going to be fun! I may have to check out as you get up to 1950 or so. All the modern quick style wrenches start to make me twitch/shudder/wretch

I just realized that the reason I was sooo far behind this time was that I was out of town at a trade show last week and never logged onto GJ. Catching up was awesome. There were some great finds! I got out quickly on Sunday and picked up a few things. Mostly decorative. Saw this old...

Of course the rule of threes applies! that keystone set screw is awesome LS! Now I am wondering if I just never noticed these before! But I will be on the lookout from now on.

... oops. Aug 28 1877... yup. I may have mis-remembered it wrong...

my alerts turned off again so I had a few pages to catch up on! You guys are tearing it up as usual! I had a weekend of strike-outs at sales, but consoled myself by hitting a Sunday Flea Market that has a bit of nostalgia for me because I used to sell there 10 years or so ago.... walking by a...

I took my 12 year old grand daughter out to the flea market on Saturday, got her some jewelry, a porcelain doll, and a dress she really liked. Then I seemed to really impress her when i picked up this 1961 pamphlet. I was riding high as a pretty cool "Papa D" until we got back to the car and...

I have a soft spot for the "double wide" barristers! I have a GW double-wide that is very similar. My only issue is that I have not found a good way to install LED light strips without drilling for the wires. no good sales for me in a while. We have had grandkids visiting and I have not...

slow weekend... a 25 cent Dunlap adjustable... but in the 'left behind' category... A fellow was selling a Disston two man chainsaw for $400 that looked like a solid restoration candidate. It is Disston Mercury, maybe a model DA-211. I can get contact information if anyone is interested.

Apparently my notifications have been off for a few weeks! You guys are killing it as usual. A $25 box of electrical panel gouges for me this morning.

the only wrench patent I see on Jan 1, 1901 had a unique ratcheting mechanism. https://patents.google.com/patent/US665031 I browsed the gazette for 1/1/1901 but that was the only wrench I saw in skimming it...

My daughter and I enjoyed it at National Harbor...

My wife says she rides with an "old goat" all the time. Not sure what she means by that...

I got this tiny Hout pin drill index today. I think I have some small bits around here somewhere. Holo-krome #66 Allen wrench set. And a couple other odds and ends.

oh.. read BEFORE operating... got it... not sure how I forgot these pictures of the manual... there are flea market vendors around here who see me coming and tell me "I got paper today!" - I am known to love the old paper stuff - esp. with the item!

I MUST get out this weekend. I have some things lined up for tomorrow if all goes well. Aaaand... Mrs. Duddly is out of town for the weekend! So before she gets back I should make plans not to own this: I picked up a 1940s (?) American Optical Delineascope (early slide projector?) that had...

got some chores done around the house, but had enough time to spend $2 at the flea. Got an old Simmons Hdwr Co 'Sure Grip' brace, an old paperweight that you put a photo in, and a ruler from a lumberyard with cool wood samples. And.. 0 days without buying another brace...

ok... my follow up post.. I call this technique: "Are you gonna eat that?" It is a technique that has yielded some good deals recently at estate sales. I buy some items at asking price if they will throw in the odds and ends that I am looking at. I end up getting the scraps, the junk...

I got out this weekend. I picked up a No 17 'American Scale Co' 5" vise which unfortunately has a broken slide. It seems mostly 'cosmetic' as it doesn't seem to impact use unless you wanted to use the slide as an anvil (hint: I suspect the previous owner had). Any way... nice vice.. nice...

Don, Lugz... guess what I picked up last weekend... great little unmarked saw, a GE oven temp tester, a late 1800s "Little Hustler" toy motor, and ... yep.. the little multi-driver to round out the GJ "they come in 3s effect"