LOL - Globemaster tools are now "vintage collectible"

[Packard V8]

Going back almost sixty years, the Globemaster bin by the checkout counter of the hardware and auto parts stores were where the inexpensive import tools were on sale for .59 or two-for-a-dollar and later, "any tool .99."

Just saw on craigslist today a local guy is seeing an opportunity we all just walked right past.

Nice clean Globemaster machinist hammer, Italy, vintage - $25 (Spokane)​

https://spokane.craigslist.org/tls/d/spokane-nice-clean-globemaster/7724129485.html

jack vines

 

[larry_g]

I seem to remember some discussion on this forum that there were some 'good' globemaster tools that were of a different mfg that the $0.99 ones we used to see. I think that somewhere around here I still have some of the stamped steel wrenches from the bin.

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no neat sig line

 

[BlakeTheCarGuy]

I’ve only ever come across a few Globemaster tools. One is a set of pliers which I use kinda frequently at home actually but no way I’d pay premium price for them. They were in a bin of tools I got from the pawn shop lol.

 

[driftpin]

In the early 1970's here in So. FL, when you could buy a six-pack of Michelob for $1.65, a couple of local beers were sold at $0.99 a six-pack, Regal and Orbit. The Regal brewery had a neat neon design you could easily see at the intersection of State Rd. 836 and I-95. It was a slender spaceship, pointed heavenwards.

The beer just wasn't very good. Matter of fact, I'd call it the Globemaster of beers.





What does 'Regal' spelled backwards come-out to?

 

[zendriver]

They might be rare, so few of them survived.

 

[woody 73]

Oh man does this post bring back memories from my youth, talk about cheap junk, but hey in a pinch anything is better than nothing.

 

[d.mcfarland]

By definition anything 20-99 years old would be considered vintage.

Also, going to assume not a lot of younger guys are going to understand the humor of "vintage Globemaster tools".

 

[Skellyii]

OMG!!!

That brings back memories of than bin of "Quality" Globemaster tools at one of the grocery stores we went to when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s.

I remember when I came of age and I started buying "real" tools, my uncle recommended always having a small box of Globemaster stuff around to lend to those people you didn't trust with your real tools.