2023 Garage Sale Thread

[3baygarage]

Lugz that looks like quite the haul. So you're saying you had a Mother In Law who was a picker and we're just finding out now?

 

[Outlawmws]

Lugz, condolences to you, your wife, and family on you loss, both FIL and MIL.

I've been lucky, No "family issues" for either disposition of my dads estate some years, back or my mom more recently, both for her "living estate", when we moved her out of her home of 56 years, adn for the final "clean-out" of the assisted living apartment. The division of her real assets will be simple; 3 ways once the taxes are completed for this year.

 

[mikeinri]

Mine was a barn, 2 car garage and a basement workshop. Embarrassment was the least of my problems!

I had to start at 20 minutes a day but the stone got chipped away.

Have faith in yourself I'll be pulling for you.

Thanks!

I don't have a barn or shop (although I'd love a barn with a shop inside). But, my shed is 12x24 (roughly a one-car garage) and also needs some cleanup.

The basement is about as bad as the garage.

The attic is a little better, mostly because we don't put as much stuff up there due to the temperature extremes.

Mike

 

[mikeinri]

@Private Lugnutz Sorry about what you and especially your wife are going through.

The message on that Sprite sign is awesome.

Mike

 

[Provincial]

Lugz, sorry for what your wife (and you) are experiencing. Been there, done that, so I know first hand. At least your wife is getting a chance at some memorabilia. My wife didn't have that. Her brother even used the court to make her give back some stuff that the parents had already given her.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

So you're saying you had a Mother In Law who was a picker and we're just finding out now?

HAHA! I know, right? Go figure! What makes it all the more ironic is I can't beg my wife to go to a flea market with me. But I only got brief, rare glimpses of that person in her mom. In her good moods. She and my wife were always fighting about something. I could count on one hand the number of times I was in the house, but it was crazy. They lived in the kitchen, basement, one bedroom, and a family room that led to an old-fashioned pool out back. Every other room in the house was full of stuff from the antiques store. You'll know what I mean when I say that she probably didn't even know she had the Plomb J100 keychain screwdriver. It was with an Elks key fob and a Mason's key fob with a tiny bone-scale knife and other "smalls." She would buy boxes at auctions without knowing what was in it. My wife was afraid her mom might've thrown all her stuff out, out of spite, but it was all there.

The message on that Sprite sign is awesome.

My wife said there was a placard over the top of that that had the name of her mom's shop, "Marie's". Long gone, apparently, but you can see where it was attached, taped or glued apparently.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I've been lucky, No "family issues" for either disposition of my dads estate some years, back or my mom more recently,

Glad to hear that.

Her brother even used the court to make her give back some stuff that the parents had already given her.

That's awful.

The thought of the professional pickers making off with "scores", rumors of cash her step-dad was always talking about being in the house that nobody has found yet, and the executor's motivation to take a quick offer on the house, "as is", including the remaining stuff in it, is prompting my wife to consider just buying the executor out of her % of assessed value. More to come as the new year drags out. I don't want to bogart the thread.

 

[BigLeagueSmoes]

Stopped by an estate sale I passed by today and picked up a pretty good haul for $20

Full can of CRC brake parts cleaner
Full bottle old type MAPP gas
Rislone motor oil
Marathon motor oil
Marathon thermometer
Snap on 3/8” drive extension
Mac tools screwdriver
Sperry New Holland Allen key set (SAE)
Playmates igloo mini lunch box
Snap-On 90 AP slip joint pliers
Thread seal tape
Two unbranded triangle files
Unbranded ball peen hammer
Unbranded claw hammer
Unbranded Claw bar
Alexander small flat head screw driver
Union Tool Company combination square
Plomb 7/16” wrench
Assorted Snap-On, Matco, Thorsen, NASA sockets
Shapleighs scissors
8” Crescent wrench
Channel Lock 337 diagonal cutters
Kraeuter-K diamond 1380 linesman pliers
7” vice grip pliers
9” vice grip pliers

I was REALLY excited to find a can of the hot MAPP gas. I originally hadn’t seen the Igloo cooler until I was walking out and I asked the gentleman how much he wanted for it and he said “for you, free. Grab it on your way out” so that was cool. Good little can cooler. Snap on slip joints have great teeth on them, they’re going in my quick grab bucket. The combination square is really high quality feeling, they don’t make them like they used to! Old pebbled PLOMB wrench was cool to find. I’ve never heard of Shapleighs Scissors but for how old/used/surface rusty they were, they’re incredibly sharp. They cleaned up nicely with some oil and a wire brush. The diagonal cutters and small linesman pliers were in pretty rough shape but they also cleaned up well. The cutters on both are not damaged and the teeth on the linesman’s are still in great shape. I have not heard of Kraeuter-K diamond tools. I will say that both of those pliers (and this is one of my favorite things about old used pliers, and tools with moving parts in general) are so incredibly broken in. They are so smooth to open in close. I would take old/used pliers that aren’t destroyed over new pliers any day of the week over almost any comparable new ones. Plus the old ones have character, and they’re a fraction of the price! The vise grips looks rough but operate smoothly and were clearly used as welding clamps which is what I will use them for. The old USA ones are hard to beat.

 

[BlueBomber]

Lugz, here's hoping that your wife can find a way forward that makes her happy. My condolences to your family for the losses and the stress.

I hit my first estate sale in months in a nearby town. It was a pretty fancy home, complete with a home theater in the basement, but I bought nothing out of the meager leavings in the garage. There was a small pile of car covers in one corner, which of course made me wonder what had been under them.

 

[Outlawmws]

BLS, that's a nice USUCK Deal!

 

[genog]

I forgot to bring my glasses to the Flea Market today.
Found a few blurry things that I held as far away from me as possible, but my arms are just not long enough

Asked my friend Carlos the seller, what mfr are these side cutters? They were a bit grungy and dirty, but I could make out USA on them...
He said, USA
Had to laugh, so I bought them and was pleased to see that they are Kleins

Also found a hilarious tiny utility knife.
Chinese, but I bought it anyway for the novelty.
Need to find blades for it
I will keep it on my bench with the tiny adjustable wrench

Also found a really neat Plomb LA case and a Superratchet

 

[Fred Knox]

First sales of the New Year and I doubled back at noon today, when prices went 50% off. Got a little bit of everything, most in pretty good shape:

Utica Radio and Ignition Cutting Pliers No. 896 (three diamond original box)

Utica Needle Nose Pliers #655 with diamond checkered gripping and logo on the pivot

Utica 6" Linesman Pliers - No Model Number (closely resembles No. 50. ) with diamond checkered gripping

Sherman-Klove Co. (SK Tools) socket set metal box (17 ¼"x3"x2") with early metal badge

SK Tools socket set metal box (17 ¼"x3"x2") with later metal badge

S-K 4426 13/16" spark plug socket; knurled base; 6-point; 3/8"-drive

S-K F-2022 flare nut wrench; 5/8" x 11/16"; 6-point

S-K Tools #72081 1/4" stubby screwdriver; green handle

S-K Tools #70044 1/8" slot mini screwdriver; green handle

S-K Tools C-12 3/8" combination wrench; 6-ooint; "Forged Alloy in USA"

Crescent Tool Co. (Jamestown NY) 50-8 Linesman Pliers with "Checkerdot" gripping pattern on the handles (holdover from S&H production?)

An early Stanley Sweetheart 743 Clamp-on Jeweler's Vise (missed the photo op)

Barcalo 7/16" x 1/2" DOE wrench

Barcalo 19/32" x 11/16" DOE wrench with geometric panels

Barcalo 5/8" x 3/4" DOE wrench with geometric panels

tiny Barcalo DOE wrench; 3/32"x 5/16"

vintage Dunlap Midget 1071 ratcheting screwdriver; wood handle; 4" long

New Britain stamped-steel combination wrench set held together with a screw and nut (726,727,728,729,730,731)

vintage Billings & Spencer Co. #1112 open-end wrench (Triangle B standard early face markings)

Bridgeport "Forged Steel" three wrench set of dual-marked SAE and Metric

Bridgeport Hardware Manufacturing "Nickel Molybdenum" box-end wrench

Bridgeport HDWE MFG CORP screwdriver; wood handle; 4" long

Master Mechanic No 9 screwdriver (maybe made by Bridgeport)

Bridgeport HDWE MFG CORP "Dovetail" screwdriver; wood handle; 11" long

Oswego Tool Co NY USA 7" Stillson monkey wrench

Vintage 1930s Auto-Kit No. 100 Almost Complete (5 of 6) Combination Wrench Set; 12-Point (missing 7/8”x3/4” one)

No Name 1/4"-Drive Socket Set Metal Box (Craftsman?); 7" x 2" x 1"

vintage Wright MD-22 49+ 11/16" deep socket; 3/8"-drive; 6-point

vintage Hazet V-10 13x8mm open-end wrench

vintage Forged Steel USA ("H" mark) slip-joint thin-nose pliers; great knurling; 6 1/2" length (who made them?)

Controlled Steel 13/32"x 5/16" tiny open-end wrench (made by J.P. Danielson)

Electrolite No. 216 slip joint pliers; 6.5" long

vintage wood handle tiny screwdriver; 3 long

Proto USA #9784 wood handle No. 2 Phillips screwdriver; 9”

Proto Los Angeles 15" adjustable wrench

Penens Corp Chicago USA 9/16" combination wrench

Thorsen 624 3/4" deep socket; 1/2"-drive; 12-point

Vintage Vaco 11/32" nut driver; clear green handle; Made in USA (for SK?)

vintage Yankee No. 2H Handyman ratcheting screwdriver; Pat. Pending; 4" long

empty blue-green socket set box = 9 1/2"x4 1/4"x1 1/2" (who made it?)

vintage Channellock 348 1/2 linesman pliers Meadville.PA U.S.A. (long-arrow handle)

Lobster 15" adjustable wrench

Krieger (Bonney war-time production) 1723-A open-end wrench 1/2"x3/8" with date code CU (March 1943)

Plomb 9604 amber screwdriver

Prentiss 20 swivel-base, swivel-jaw bench vise (needs new jaws and a fair amount of cleanup).

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Utica Radio and Ignition Cutting Pliers No. 896 (three diamond original box)

New Britain stamped-steel combination wrench set held together with a screw and nut

Nice finds!

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

Flooding and our flea is not coming back from lockdown. Yard sailing is entirely too literal this weekend, but my buddy asked if I'd like to run a sale for him after we pumped out his basement.



It was just up to the floor joists.

 

[ForrestT]

Stopped by an estate sale I passed by today and picked up a pretty good haul for $20

Full can of CRC brake parts cleaner
Full bottle old type MAPP gas
Rislone motor oil
Marathon motor oil
Marathon thermometer
Snap on 3/8” drive extension
Mac tools screwdriver
Sperry New Holland Allen key set (SAE)
Playmates igloo mini lunch box
Snap-On 90 AP slip joint pliers
Thread seal tape
Two unbranded triangle files
Unbranded ball peen hammer
Unbranded claw hammer
Unbranded Claw bar
Alexander small flat head screw driver
Union Tool Company combination square
Plomb 7/16” wrench
Assorted Snap-On, Matco, Thorsen, NASA sockets
Shapleighs scissors
8” Crescent wrench
Channel Lock 337 diagonal cutters
Kraeuter-K diamond 1380 linesman pliers
7” vice grip pliers
9” vice grip pliers

I was REALLY excited to find a can of the hot MAPP gas. I originally hadn’t seen the Igloo cooler until I was walking out and I asked the gentleman how much he wanted for it and he said “for you, free. Grab it on your way out” so that was cool. Good little can cooler. Snap on slip joints have great teeth on them, they’re going in my quick grab bucket. The combination square is really high quality feeling, they don’t make them like they used to! Old pebbled PLOMB wrench was cool to find. I’ve never heard of Shapleighs Scissors but for how old/used/surface rusty they were, they’re incredibly sharp. They cleaned up nicely with some oil and a wire brush. The diagonal cutters and small linesman pliers were in pretty rough shape but they also cleaned up well. The cutters on both are not damaged and the teeth on the linesman’s are still in great shape. I have not heard of Kraeuter-K diamond tools. I will say that both of those pliers (and this is one of my favorite things about old used pliers, and tools with moving parts in general) are so incredibly broken in. They are so smooth to open in close. I would take old/used pliers that aren’t destroyed over new pliers any day of the week over almost any comparable new ones. Plus the old ones have character, and they’re a fraction of the price! The vise grips looks rough but operate smoothly and were clearly used as welding clamps which is what I will use them for. The old USA ones are hard to beat.

That leather handled hammer is an estwing. Nice score on the Channellock dykes. Kraueter made good stuff. Like the snap on and sockets too! Good deal for $20.

 

[BigLeagueSmoes]

That leather handled hammer is an estwing. Nice score on the Channellock dykes. Kraueter made good stuff. Like the snap on and sockets too! Good deal for $20.

I thought the hammer might be an Estwing but I couldn’t confirm so thank you for the mental confirmation. I was real excited about the sockets especially a few Snap-On ones because I’m piecing together a couple 3/8” drive socket sets and I was missing those sizes so it was a perfect match. Also I’m assuming your first name is Forrest which is also my first name so nice to meet a fellow Forrest doesn’t happen very often

 

[four.cycle]

@Private Lugnutz -
You've certainly had a bundle dropped in your lap there.
Awesome stuff, even though all due to unfortunate circumstances. That Elvgren letter opener is way cool!
My condolences to all of you sir - hope you are able to get through it all okay.
BK

 

[Smokeshow69]

I forgot to bring my glasses to the Flea Market today.
Found a few blurry things that I held as far away from me as possible, but my arms are just not long enough

Asked my friend Carlos the seller, what mfr are these side cutters? They were a bit grungy and dirty, but I could make out USA on them...
He said, USA
Had to laugh, so I bought them and was pleased to see that they are Kleins

Also found a hilarious tiny utility knife.
Chinese, but I bought it anyway for the novelty.
Need to find blades for it
I will keep it on my bench with the tiny adjustable wrench

Also found a really neat Plomb LA case and a Superratchet

That “plomb case” is a ‘39-41’ challenger set box that was only sold with that set. Nice shape too!

 

[d42jeep]

First sales of the New Year and I doubled back at noon today, when prices went 50% off. Got a little bit of everything, most in pretty good shape:

Utica Radio and Ignition Cutting Pliers No. 896 (three diamond original box)

Utica Needle Nose Pliers #655 with diamond checkered gripping and logo on the pivot

Utica 6" Linesman Pliers - No Model Number (closely resembles No. 50. ) with diamond checkered gripping

Sherman-Klove Co. (SK Tools) socket set metal box (17 ¼"x3"x2") with early metal badge

SK Tools socket set metal box (17 ¼"x3"x2") with later metal badge

S-K 4426 13/16" spark plug socket; knurled base; 6-point; 3/8"-drive

S-K F-2022 flare nut wrench; 5/8" x 11/16"; 6-point

S-K Tools #72081 1/4" stubby screwdriver; green handle

S-K Tools #70044 1/8" slot mini screwdriver; green handle

S-K Tools C-12 3/8" combination wrench; 6-ooint; "Forged Alloy in USA"

Crescent Tool Co. (Jamestown NY) 50-8 Linesman Pliers with "Checkerdot" gripping pattern on the handles (holdover from S&H production?)

An early Stanley Sweetheart 743 Clamp-on Jeweler's Vise (missed the photo op)

Barcalo 7/16" x 1/2" DOE wrench

Barcalo 19/32" x 11/16" DOE wrench with geometric panels

Barcalo 5/8" x 3/4" DOE wrench with geometric panels

tiny Barcalo DOE wrench; 3/32"x 5/16"

vintage Dunlap Midget 1071 ratcheting screwdriver; wood handle; 4" long

New Britain stamped-steel combination wrench set held together with a screw and nut (726,727,728,729,730,731)

vintage Billings & Spencer Co. #1112 open-end wrench (Triangle B standard early face markings)

Bridgeport "Forged Steel" three wrench set of dual-marked SAE and Metric

Bridgeport Hardware Manufacturing "Nickel Molybdenum" box-end wrench

Bridgeport HDWE MFG CORP screwdriver; wood handle; 4" long

Master Mechanic No 9 screwdriver (maybe made by Bridgeport)

Bridgeport HDWE MFG CORP "Dovetail" screwdriver; wood handle; 11" long

Oswego Tool Co NY USA 7" Stillson monkey wrench

Vintage 1930s Auto-Kit No. 100 Almost Complete (5 of 6) Combination Wrench Set; 12-Point (missing 7/8”x3/4” one)

No Name 1/4"-Drive Socket Set Metal Box (Craftsman?); 7" x 2" x 1"

vintage Wright MD-22 49+ 11/16" deep socket; 3/8"-drive; 6-point

vintage Hazet V-10 13x8mm open-end wrench

vintage Forged Steel USA ("H" mark) slip-joint thin-nose pliers; great knurling; 6 1/2" length (who made them?)

Controlled Steel 13/32"x 5/16" tiny open-end wrench (made by J.P. Danielson)

Electrolite No. 216 slip joint pliers; 6.5" long

vintage wood handle tiny screwdriver; 3 long

Proto USA #9784 wood handle No. 2 Phillips screwdriver; 9”

Proto Los Angeles 15" adjustable wrench

Penens Corp Chicago USA 9/16" combination wrench

Thorsen 624 3/4" deep socket; 1/2"-drive; 12-point

Vintage Vaco 11/32" nut driver; clear green handle; Made in USA (for SK?)

vintage Yankee No. 2H Handyman ratcheting screwdriver; Pat. Pending; 4" long

empty blue-green socket set box = 9 1/2"x4 1/4"x1 1/2" (who made it?)

vintage Channellock 348 1/2 linesman pliers Meadville.PA U.S.A. (long-arrow handle)

Lobster 15" adjustable wrench

Krieger (Bonney war-time production) 1723-A open-end wrench 1/2"x3/8" with date code CU (March 1943)

Plomb 9604 amber screwdriver

Prentiss 20 swivel-base, swivel-jaw bench vise (needs new jaws and a fair amount of cleanup).

A lot of my favorites there. That is definitely an early season “you ****” haul.
-Don

 

[mikeinri]

Her brother even used the court to make her give back some stuff that the parents had already given her.

Some people are just disgusting.

Mike

 

[mikeinri]

One thing that @Private Lugnutz's story illustrates is that there can be multiple sides and (hopefully) hidden drama behind a lot of the sales that drive this thread. Our "gains" could really have some emotional baggage for someone on the seller's side.

Mike

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Our "gains" could really have some emotional baggage for someone on the seller's side.

It comes up from time to time on this thread. I reunited a couple special things with enormously grateful progeny in the distant past, but the predominant experience has been one of such callous indifference or disregard, that I don't even think about it anymore.

I swear I'm trying to get OFF this topic, but you guys keep pulling me back IN.

My wife has been completely immersed in these three scrapbooks (see attached) she pulled out of a box. I will not bore the thread with the details any longer that it will take to make my point. It's the kind of "paper" we'd all dismiss pawing through a box looking for the vintage Hot Rod magazines and Gunsmith books, but it is amazing. They all belonged to the same wealthy woman, and date from the 'Teens to the 30's, from high school through early marriage. Dance cards, miniature college pennants, menus from famous restaurants, pressed flowers, etc. It's the kind of authenticity that associate producers, set designers, and even some historical fiction writers would go crazy for. Who knows how her mom acquired them to begin with, or why. The somewhat 'high society' woman lived nearby, but she's a total stranger.

My wife's interest was just the genuine kind, but the material is so powerful, so touching, a half a life in your hands, that she decided to do some research online. Long time jaded and disillusioned me told her she was going to be disappointed, but I was wrong. Now she's in touch with the family.

She says she wants to flip the house for more than what the executor cares about, but I swear she wants to buy it back just to keep picking it herself! I'd put a smiley emoji here, but I'm honestly not sure how all this is going to turn out.

 

[Outlawmws]

Nice finds Fred!

Utica Radio and Ignition Cutting Pliers No. 896 (three diamond original box)

I'm with Lugz on this one, rare to find them in the box!

An early Stanley Sweetheart 743 Clamp-on Jeweler's Vise (missed the photo op)

These are nice little vises! some of the best mini's!

Plomb 9604 amber screwdriver

Another hard to find!

Prentiss 20 swivel-base, swivel-jaw bench vise (needs new jaws and a fair amount of cleanup).

And another! I like the swivel jaw vises!

 

[Old Radar]

She says she wants to flip the house for more than what the executor cares about, but I swear she wants to buy it back just to keep picking it herself! I'd put a smiley emoji here, but I'm honestly not sure how all this is going to turn out.

Not to misappropriate a somber situation, but I can't help visualizing Lugz presiding over a giant picker's sale after SWMBO has had her fill. I'm sure it would draw GJ members from all over New England!

 

[misterbill]

Not to misappropriate a somber situation, but I can't help visualizing Lugz presiding over a giant picker's sale after SWMBO has had her fill. I'm sure it would draw GJ members from all over New England!

Everyone is missing the obvious choice - a Lugzonian Annex.

 

[Smokeshow69]

It comes up from time to time on this thread. I reunited a couple special things with enormously grateful progeny in the distant past, but the predominant experience has been one of such callous indifference or disregard, that I don't even think about it anymore.

I swear I'm trying to get OFF this topic, but you guys keep pulling me back IN.

My wife has been completely immersed in these three scrapbooks (see attached) she pulled out of a box. I will not bore the thread with the details any longer that it will take to make my point. It's the kind of "paper" we'd all dismiss pawing through a box looking for the vintage Hot Rod magazines and Gunsmith books, but it is amazing. They all belonged to the same wealthy woman, and date from the 'Teens to the 30's, from high school through early marriage. Dance cards, miniature college pennants, menus from famous restaurants, pressed flowers, etc. It's the kind of authenticity that associate producers, set designers, and even some historical fiction writers would go crazy for. Who knows how her mom acquired them to begin with, or why. The somewhat 'high society' woman lived nearby, but she's a total stranger.

My wife's interest was just the genuine kind, but the material is so powerful, so touching, a half a life in your hands, that she decided to do some research online. Long time jaded and disillusioned me told her she was going to be disappointed, but I was wrong. Now she's in touch with the family.

She says she wants to flip the house for more than what the executor cares about, but I swear she wants to buy it back just to keep picking it herself! I'd put a smiley emoji here, but I'm honestly not sure how all this is going to turn out.

Absolutely . You need to buy it to thoroughly pick the house and then have the most amazing sale! Plus I know you will find some really cool stuff to add to my other thread

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/coolest-thing-you-have-ever-found-on-your-property-in-your-house.331103/page-15#post-9913207

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Not to misappropriate a somber situation, but I can't help visualizing Lugz presiding over a giant picker's sale after SWMBO has had her fill. I'm sure it would draw GJ members from all over New England!

The more the merrier, but it would be quite a hike for most of them! No, seriously, I know everyone else thinks of the entire Northeast as New England, and some references even include New York, NJ, and PA in their definition of it, but for most of us who live on the Beast Coast, New England ends with Connecticut. Regionally, NY, NJ, PA, Delaware, and Maryland are Middle Atlantic. Not to get persnickety or pedantic.

It's too bad all the tools are gone. The thought of other guys going through the basement pained me to no end.

On a serious note to all my fellow GS pals, I appreciate ALL the good thoughts and well wishes here, but it hasn't really been somber. As I was saying to Beemer in a PM, and this will seem a little kooky, but I honestly feel like my wife is revisiting and revitalizing her mom through her old shop stuff in a way she had trouble doing when she was alive. She was a unique woman. Thick Philly accent, high school dropout, crude, but vivacious and wild and very worldlywise. Her step-dad was sick for over a year, but I did not see this coming, and I think we're going to have a second house, full of "junque". It makes sense. It's my wife's childhood house. We go to Philly often. The Main Line train station is a half a block away. We have two kids in college in PA. My brother, who does remodeling, and his son, have started flipping houses on the side. I wouldn't be surprised if she just takes her time going through it, and after it's updated a little, who knows, she may not even sell it.

Everyone is missing the obvious choice - a Lugzonian Annex.

Snerk. Word.

 

[Smokeshow69]

On an administrator/moderator note- we are still needing folks to post their finds! January is a slow time for a lot of us so if you guys got out there and procured some 2nd hand gold,
We need to see it please

Also Fred Knox is on the board with a suckage score of 1!

 

[bmwrd0]

There was nothing in my immediate area, so I decided to make a day of it, and headed up to "The City" for four good looking sales


The first sale had a few good looking tools, but was mostly fishing gear. I don't fish, so tools it was! 13/16" drill bit, Craftsman breaker, Penen's breaker, Herbrand deeps, Armstrong flex, and a 4oz ball pein head.


Second stop was an estate of a 'Vette restorer, with nine care garages! Sadly, family members came in at the last moment "to get a few things" and stripped the shops bare. The person in charge of the sale was not happy about that, as it affects his commission, and violates the contract. In any case I found a Plomb breaker, APEX bit driver, and an old drill index set up for column mount.


Third sale was some sort of junk/antique dealer - one of my favorites! A Starrett set of dividers, and a Brown and Sharpe Bevel gauge.


The last sale wasn't about tools, they showed some interesting books. I wasn't able to make the first day, but I did find some keepers: a first US of the Lawrence classic, a Talbot Mundy about Cleopatra, and an interesting book on travelling Central Asia in the '30s.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Nive haul, Beemer.

I, too, got out early. It was a gorgeous morning, the flea was hoppin', Mrs. Lugz gets all the credit for all the 'Marie's Junque Shop' goodies - they were her picks, not mine, so I am calling this haul my first official haul of the year (Lugz 2023_01).



- As many of you know, I have a fondness for old, prewar, pre-Registered TM K-D, and the battery pliers fit that bill. Unusual finish.

- The "Colonial" looking screwdriver actually has a Wright square shank in it. I'm thinking homemade handle.

- The water pump pliers are wartime ('1933 patent good, 1953 patent no good'), GMTK spec-correct Champion DeArment. I've lost count but some future GMTKer will need them.

- The combo wrench is a Wilde (uncommon in my experience), the DOE with the Peyronie bend in it is a Wakefield WIzard No. 45, my third or fourth, but good potential trade bait, and the loom wrench is B&S.

- The ignition pliers are unmarked, but I have sets that need them.

- Can't quite make out the utility knife yet, but I collect them if they're unique, and I will update my Curator's Corner on this one.

- The little advertising screwdriver is from Boston and I'm not sure on the tool with the dairy marking above that. When I see these with that looping handle they usually have a little hook for tightening boot laces. I actually have a few of those. This one almost looks like a countersink, but these types of advertising tools usually have household duties, so I am stumped for now.

And on the way home it was Acoustic Cafe hour on public radio, and I heard Nanci Griffith doing Fairport Convention's "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?", Joan Baez doing a Steve Earle cover, and Tom Jones - of all people! - doing an incredible cover of Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song." Don't you guys feel like your tool huntin' trips are more complete when there is a good soundtrack? I do.

 

[mikeinri]

@bmwrd0 Cool drill index!

Mike

 

[RTM]

Everyone is missing the obvious choice - a Lugzonian Annex.

I was thinking the Lugzonian Heir and Lost Space (need a better word here) museum

 

[gleman]

There was nothing in my immediate area, so I decided to make a day of it, and headed up to "The City" for four good looking sales


The first sale had a few good looking tools, but was mostly fishing gear. I don't fish, so tools it was! 13/16" drill bit, Craftsman breaker, Penen's breaker, Herbrand deeps, Armstrong flex, and a 4oz ball pein head.


Second stop was an estate of a 'Vette restorer, with nine care garages! Sadly, family members came in at the last moment "to get a few things" and stripped the shops bare. The person in charge of the sale was not happy about that, as it affects his commission, and violates the contract. In any case I found a Plomb breaker, APEX bit driver, and an old drill index set up for column mount.


Third sale was some sort of junk/antique dealer - one of my favorites! A Starrett set of dividers, and a Brown and Sharpe Bevel gauge.


The last sale wasn't about tools, they showed some interesting books. I wasn't able to make the first day, but I did find some keepers: a first US of the Lawrence classic, a Talbot Mundy about Cleopatra, and an interesting book on travelling Central Asia in the '30s.

You ****!

The old index and the books are right up my alley.

 

[bmwrd0]

I don't know "(Shop) Space; the Final Frontier!"

 

[Old Radar]

Not to get persnickety or pedantic.

Too late!!

 

[Outlawmws]

Beautiful sunny day - between two storms; last night was very windy, but not a lot of rain (less than 1/4") - and not a single sale of any description yesterday or today.

The weather guessers all but started panics here.

I had to talk my own immediate family off the ceiling a bit, and friends who retired to back east called to "see if you are OK" They grew up here and have seen far worse!

The aftermath of the "Miracle March" of 1991 was much worse, causing major mudslides adn floods in the central valley that had to be seen to be believed. It did however end a long drought.

 

[Chrome Vanadium Cody]

Thought this was cool, 1 1/8 combo wrench marked both proto and plomb. Hadn’t seen one like that before

 

[Outlawmws]

The last sale wasn't about tools, they showed some interesting books. I wasn't able to make the first day, but I did find some keepers: a first US of the Lawrence classic, a Talbot Mundy about Cleopatra, and an interesting book on travelling Central Asia in the '30s.

You ****!

The old index and the books are right up my alley.

Yes he does! beside some nice finds for the tools, Talbot Mundy and his "Tros of Samothrace" series are in my all time faves for books. I have them all in paperback, but never see them hardbound.

 

[gleman]

Yes he does! beside some nice finds for the tools, Talbot Mundy and his "Tros of Samothrace" series are in my all time faves for books. I have them all in paperback, but never see them hardbound.

I'll check out Mundy. Thanks!

 

[Outlawmws]

IIR he also wrote "King of the Khyber Rifles" made into a loosely based movie in 1953