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The lathe is a McGraw Edison I believe. No Knives yet but have a long ways to go.....doesn't matter how far you are. I do ship whenever Its feasible. There is at least another lathe among the horde. A jewelers lathe I hadn't dug out yet.

No name......I also don't think these are pliers but most likely some kind of blacksmith or forging tool. Maybe someone here can identify it.

Sadly it is a normal thing from greedy sellers with no ethics. I know since I sell on CL all the time and run into such people quite often .....But on the other hand here's the problem.....some people also never show when they say they are on the way too so perhaps the seller didn't want to lose...

...but first....my 2 day nap.....well, at least til my feet and legs stop hurting and throbbing along with the rest of my body........later

....now the chore of going thru boxes and seeing what I brought home. Some last minute finds as we were unloading to storage.

Well first phase is done....everything in storage or my van.....

Too "ratted out"

With the trailer filled up, a few last items we loaded up.....an old cast iron stove of which I found all the parts for, an old cast iron wood burning heater and a vintage Craftsman table saw with extra long table extensions...that little saw is ******** heavy. More to come...once I recover.

Long day today.......cleaned and swept out my storage to make room for the new finds. With my friend Dan's trailer we took many things like old clothes, outdated appliances and broken furniture to the dump. After that I had to run a few errands then back to the shed. Many thanks to my friend...

*GROAN* ....Family just left.... *BURP* ....just a quick update..... *MOAN* ..... Yesterday finished picking thru the rubble ...... *YAWWN* ......Only thing left to do is run this stuff to storage ....... *EEP* ........ Good grief, Thanksgiving dinner was great and can hardly move...

I have no idea.......its buried in storage right now.....remind me later once I start posting tools on craigslist

A couple of things I will probably have to leave....Going back in awhile.....more images to come

So yesterday I got busy finishing digging thru the back room.....not as much rubble or stacks of trash to dig thru....I'll just post pics of what I pulled out of there.

On to finish the back room..stay tuned

Last item to explore in the front room. This tool box.....opened I found a few old dies and some vintage auto tools.

Nov 21....Yesterday my rock buddy showed up early with boxes and hopes to fill. We filled up about 1/2 his pickup or boxes of rocks and some fossils we found. Sorry but I neglected to take pics mainly because I was too busy to think about it and exhausted. I did however take one pic of a few...

Forgot to mention.....I also found many unused crucibles while digging this last pile of rubble.

Now here's something fascinating....upon removing one rock box and pulling a big box of nails off......why does this guy have so many damn huge boxes of nails everywhere???.....I found what looked like a tiny nest full of eggs, each about the size of a pea....long ago some had hatched and then...

Among my many interests I've always liked unusual rocks, gems, minerals and fossils. Which I have a small collection from my travels. Usually small samples and spheres. Here's some on a desk at home. I'm especially fond of the large sphere on the far left. Its fossilized Palm Tree millions of...

Over the years I"ve dug thru many estates like this and one observation I've always made is while you're picking thru someone's possessions who passed away many years ago you learn a lot about that person. This man was not only a watchmaker, clockmaker and manufacturing jeweler, he also did his...