Vintage forging tools and toolbox J. Pickering
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nadogail
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Any item is worth no more or less than a willing buyer will pay a willing seller for it.
Welcome to the Forum from Southwestern California.
Welcome to the Forum from Southwestern California.
ebay for the largest audience
four.cycle
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Hello Meagan and welcome to the site.
Where do you get the name "J. Pickering" ? I do not see it anywhere in any of those images.
Is that a book of paper matches inside that box?
What makes you believe those are "forging tools"? Is that how they were presented at the auction?
I'm not sure what a blacksmith would do with any of that stuff.
Now... a guy who was blowing glass... some of that might come in handy... although they use wooden paddles for shaping and forming down at the glass museum here...
See if you can find a LOGO or Herald Mark on any of those pieces, or any patent numbers or dates.
Where do you get the name "J. Pickering" ? I do not see it anywhere in any of those images.
Is that a book of paper matches inside that box?
What makes you believe those are "forging tools"? Is that how they were presented at the auction?
I'm not sure what a blacksmith would do with any of that stuff.
Now... a guy who was blowing glass... some of that might come in handy... although they use wooden paddles for shaping and forming down at the glass museum here...
See if you can find a LOGO or Herald Mark on any of those pieces, or any patent numbers or dates.
I read the name on one of the tools. Also I didn't acquire them at a auction but rather a yard sale. They thought they were forging tools and from across seas.
Yes I believe their matches in there
Thank you for the advice. I'm going to look at them very closely tomorrow.
four.cycle
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Get them out into the light and get some clear photos of the markings on them.
I think what you have there might be tools for a glass blower, but the "spoon" things are really tossing me off because they look like oversized potter's tools.
I think what you have there might be tools for a glass blower, but the "spoon" things are really tossing me off because they look like oversized potter's tools.
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It is matches
four.cycle
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I'm sending an inquiry to the glass museum. No idea if anything will come of it.
I'm gone Friday Saturday Sunday Monday - have to go see Mom.
BK
I'm gone Friday Saturday Sunday Monday - have to go see Mom.
BK
Thank you
Someone suggested piano or cobbler also. It's strange how I can't find any pictures resembling these.
four.cycle
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Not piano... they have a completely different set up ... Mr. Skelly has a piano repair shop right under my sister's dance studio.
Thanks for reminding me I need to fix his chairs and get them returned to him.
Not cobbler - none of that stuff is cobbler. They use weird pliers and goofy-looking hammers.
Thanks for reminding me I need to fix his chairs and get them returned to him.
Not cobbler - none of that stuff is cobbler. They use weird pliers and goofy-looking hammers.
four.cycle
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Do NOT "clean" anything - you will compromise its intrinsic value (if such exists.)
Hard-core "collectors" want stuff that's "original" - every speck of dirt and every scratch tells a story.
I inquired about these tools a week or so ago and nobody knew then and nobody knows now nobody I'd come in contact with can figure out what they are. The previous owner of these tools thought that they might be from Denmark across seas but couldn't tell me anything else. Does anybody have any idea of what these could be I'm so interested.
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four.cycle
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Hello again @meagan.
I didn't forget about you - I just couldn't find that thread again.
The nice lady who is the curator at the Tacoma Glass Museum finally got back to me: those are NOT glass-blowing tools.
The "spoon" things look similar to tools used by potters and sculptors for shaping clay, but they're too large and clunky for that purpose.
Your "Conqueror 113" is a German-made 6-foot tape measure and probably isn't related to anything else in the box.
I hit a dead end trying to figure out the "1888 Pickering" thing.
The reddish-colored rubber "bulb" thing could be from a turkey baster, or a battery hydrometer, or just a general-purpose squeeze-bulb affair to move liquids.
Might help if you laid all that stuff out on a table, kinda-sorta organized, and post a photo of the entire lot. We're only seeing bits and pieces and ends of widgets - not the whole picture. An overall view of the entire lot might better offer some clues.
I didn't forget about you - I just couldn't find that thread again.
The nice lady who is the curator at the Tacoma Glass Museum finally got back to me: those are NOT glass-blowing tools.
The "spoon" things look similar to tools used by potters and sculptors for shaping clay, but they're too large and clunky for that purpose.
Your "Conqueror 113" is a German-made 6-foot tape measure and probably isn't related to anything else in the box.
I hit a dead end trying to figure out the "1888 Pickering" thing.
The reddish-colored rubber "bulb" thing could be from a turkey baster, or a battery hydrometer, or just a general-purpose squeeze-bulb affair to move liquids.
Might help if you laid all that stuff out on a table, kinda-sorta organized, and post a photo of the entire lot. We're only seeing bits and pieces and ends of widgets - not the whole picture. An overall view of the entire lot might better offer some clues.
I appreciate you so much for taking the time to help! Later this evening I will pay them out flat and get better photos. The German tape measure is pretty cool. Do you think it's worth anything
four.cycle
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I have no clue. "Worth" is what a prospective buyer is prepared and willing to pay at point of sale.
Only way to determine "market value" on an item is either the "sold" listings on ebay, or any of the websites like "Worthpoint", which is where I found that image of the tape measure. (You have to sign up and pay to use those sites.)
I just pull numbers out of the sky when I am setting selling prices on my stuff - I don't really care what the competition does.
Only way to determine "market value" on an item is either the "sold" listings on ebay, or any of the websites like "Worthpoint", which is where I found that image of the tape measure. (You have to sign up and pay to use those sites.)
I just pull numbers out of the sky when I am setting selling prices on my stuff - I don't really care what the competition does.
nadogail
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Any Artifact is worth what a willing seller will accept from a willing buyer.
I have better pictures
four.cycle
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As it turned out, the OP figured out that they are "sand casting" tools, used for creating the sand molds one would use to cast items made of metal. Presumably the tubes were for creating sprue holes.
There are all kinds of them available in the second-hand market, like this set currently listed on ebay:
There are all kinds of them available in the second-hand market, like this set currently listed on ebay:
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four.cycle
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I never did find "Pickering", but I did find
Dobson / William Dobson, 219 Spencer St., Canastota, NY / ca. 1836-1932 / molders tools / https://trowelcollector.blogspot.com/2014/04/william-dobson-maker-of-molders-tools.html /
1919 Herr & Co. catalog Dobson ad pp 127
Used by "molders" to shape the sand molds used for casting metal alloys.
The long hollow tubes are used to form the sprues.
(I finally lived long enough to be able to use "sprue" in a sentence.)
Dobson / William Dobson, 219 Spencer St., Canastota, NY / ca. 1836-1932 / molders tools / https://trowelcollector.blogspot.com/2014/04/william-dobson-maker-of-molders-tools.html /
1919 Herr & Co. catalog Dobson ad pp 127
Used by "molders" to shape the sand molds used for casting metal alloys.
The long hollow tubes are used to form the sprues.
(I finally lived long enough to be able to use "sprue" in a sentence.)