kentenn
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Are any of these wrenches worth anything? They seem cool but I CANNOT get sucked into collecting anything else....
Old Wrenches
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wrenchguy
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photos ain't good nuff 4 me.
gdocktor3
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Sell em...
Shiftless
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Repurpose them into door handles like I did. This wrench is a beat up JH Williams model 1731 Superrench (probably from from the 1940’s) that some ape apparently used as a hammer. I found it in the one dollar box at a garage sale and spent a few minutes cleaning it up.
(This is the access door to my basement crawl space)
Better check with your significant other before you replace all the pulls in your kitchen.
(This is the access door to my basement crawl space)
Better check with your significant other before you replace all the pulls in your kitchen.
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Coach James
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kentenn, I am not sure about their worth. You could look on ebay and see what other people are asking for them.
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crguy
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They're the kind of wrenches you find for $.50.- $1.00 at every swap meet.
Shiftless
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metaldad
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just be careful with the older ones. they may be cadium plated
Thats the kind of junk I collect. Buy low, receive as gifts but very few are worth pay much for. Resale is steel weight for me.
The S curved adjustable has some following if your example bears the right name and isn't s rustball beyond repair. The Ford stuff is kinda in demand but not gold plated valuable. Price it right and some fool like me might buy it. But some guy local to you. Shipping would kill for me.
The S curved adjustable has some following if your example bears the right name and isn't s rustball beyond repair. The Ford stuff is kinda in demand but not gold plated valuable. Price it right and some fool like me might buy it. But some guy local to you. Shipping would kill for me.
Richard Cranium
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I see them all the time for a dollar or less. Good luck
Dagny
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Certain Maytag wrenches have value. also john deere.
wrenchguy
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the curved adjustable is prolly worth the most ($3), then the clevis hitch wrench ($2) which was used on a single horse/mule pulled farm implement. the rest are the great tools that made this country the industrial giant of the world. in the past i sold the forged 1's for a quarter each.
wrenchguy
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sure, but none of these are those manufacture.
Indexmill
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Sell em as fast as you can for as much as you can... and then buy a real set of wrenches.
Really, a few might have some value on Ebay. Try to identify such ones and flip em on Ebay. Sell the rest however you can.
Really, a few might have some value on Ebay. Try to identify such ones and flip em on Ebay. Sell the rest however you can.
JR 42
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I love old wrenches, but old double open end SAE, USS, etc wrenches aren't worth squat. That said, I'd pile them in a box somewhere unmolested, rather than bend them into coathooks and ****, but that's just me. There must be millions of them floating around still.
JR
ETA - ok, wrench dinosaur is awesome, make art while the sun shines...
JR
ETA - ok, wrench dinosaur is awesome, make art while the sun shines...
four.cycle
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as noted above, the Bemis & Call curved adjustable is actually a collectible.
the three stamped Mossbergs (center of second photo image) might appeal to someone collecting Mossberg (or trying to complete their No. 14 socket set that's missing all the wrenches, as most of them are.)
The 673 Duro ratchet and the little 1/2" hex adapter are worth $10 - $15 + shipping on Ebay if you find the right buyer. (with the sockets and the holder maybe a bit more - the market on those is really screwy right now for reasons I don't completely understand.)
the rest of those, as already mentioned, are so common that their value as "collectibles" is really depressed. there are literally millions of them out there in the second hand market. run a search on Ebay for "wrenches" (used) and you'll see what I mean.
identifying them, sorting and listing each of them, and dealing with finicky and fickle Ebay buyers might not be worth your time and trouble. that's probably why you'll find "lot" after "lot" after "lot" of mixed wrenches listed on Ebay every day every day every day.
as I recall, I paid about $20 bucks + shipping for this "grab bag" of old wrenches, including the fabulous hand-made steel box (which is the reason I bought the lot):
the three stamped Mossbergs (center of second photo image) might appeal to someone collecting Mossberg (or trying to complete their No. 14 socket set that's missing all the wrenches, as most of them are.)
The 673 Duro ratchet and the little 1/2" hex adapter are worth $10 - $15 + shipping on Ebay if you find the right buyer. (with the sockets and the holder maybe a bit more - the market on those is really screwy right now for reasons I don't completely understand.)
the rest of those, as already mentioned, are so common that their value as "collectibles" is really depressed. there are literally millions of them out there in the second hand market. run a search on Ebay for "wrenches" (used) and you'll see what I mean.
identifying them, sorting and listing each of them, and dealing with finicky and fickle Ebay buyers might not be worth your time and trouble. that's probably why you'll find "lot" after "lot" after "lot" of mixed wrenches listed on Ebay every day every day every day.
as I recall, I paid about $20 bucks + shipping for this "grab bag" of old wrenches, including the fabulous hand-made steel box (which is the reason I bought the lot):
RAS61
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I've got some old wrenches and other tools like those that I inherited from my Father in Law. Since they're not worth much I thought about repurposing them as wall art on a display board in my garage - I think they'd look cool.
Bockscar
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All you guys just keep on repurposing all those old wrenches....and then when there are none all of mine will be valuable [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
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sberry
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I toss that stuff in a bucket in a basement out of the way. Couldn't sell it for a dollar at a sale, on occasion make something from it.
I'm not so sure that an increase in scarcity of those old DOE's would make them more valuable.
It's hard to put a finger on it, but for some reason those old DOE's give off a lot of "obsolete, old, junk" and not very much "vintage, cool, classic".
If they weren't so darned heavy against the shipping dolllar, I'd be buying lots of the, um, lots on ebay and building everything from garden benches to coat racks out of them.
I have a 190? Armstrong from before they made mechanics tools and two very early 1900s metrics from Spain. Those are cool old classics. I also have a smithy made NdeM train shop S wrench from the defunct train shops here. That is rare if not valuable.
Those will not become lawn furniture on my watch. Those are the history of my town.
Those will not become lawn furniture on my watch. Those are the history of my town.
joe_pinehill1
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I don't think there's a lot of $ value there, theyre tools you see at garage sales and flea markets. I have a peg board wall in my garage, and I hung a lot of my old tools above comfortable reach, and theyre wall art.