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Originally Posted by mordecaibrown1
Bob I bought a ton of stuff there to name a few things. 1980 Topps baseball Coin Set looks like a complete set. 1950 Two toy Pistols, 1880 rope hook, & something similar to the hook also turn of the century. 1940 music box player, 1800 candle cutter to put out candles, 1900 cookie cutter, Cool hand angle drill I can send you a picture if your interested?, 1800 pliers, 1906 tire gauge, a metal cleaner pot where you submarge tools to clean, vintage micrometer, Craftman flaring too in box from the 50's or 60's. vintage small ax, early 1900 device you hang a rope on to get a straight line in original leather case, early 1900's hand wood rasp for shaving down wood Beautiful wood handles on it, early air craft hand riveter, vintage adjustable drill bit, early 1900 ice spike tool, and a few other things along with the two baseball cards. If you are interested in seeing picture of them let me know will most likely sell everything I pick up there, except the Cj Bender.
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Holy cow! Sounds like some great pickups Sam. That must have been one heck of a garage sale.
Great to hear you have some interest in old tools. I grew up in a house that my great, great grandfather had originally built, and was then added on to and modernized somewhat over the years. His tool chest (and I do mean chest, as it was a literally a wooden chest about '6 to '7 long, by about '3 tall, and about 3' deep) with all his tools in it was in my attic growing up. He ran a drydock and maintained and repaired canal boats on the Ohio Canal back in the early to mid-1800s, in what is now part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. There is a marker on the towpath in the park showing where the dry dock was located at, just a little ways down the street from where my childhood home was, right across from the 11-mile lock that is still in place. The tools were oversized wood and metal, and especially made for working on the canal boats. Unbelievable shape for their age. Unfortunately, when my grandparents, who lived next door, and my parents all moved out back in the 70s, because the National Park Service wanted to take over and remove the residents and houses from the newly created National Park, my family donated the tools and tool chest to the National Park Service, who was supposed to then use it for display in a sort of historical village they were going to erect in another part of the new National Park. Typical government though, lied about it, never did the development, and years later when I went to various offices/locations in the park and asked park personnel what ever happened to the tools, nobody knew anything. My government tax dollars at work.
And especially glad to hear you may have rescued some old tools that otherwise could have just been discarded. Who knows what historical importance they may have had. The only thing left from my old house was a pair of metal ice skates that you would clip onto your shoes/boots to then go ice skating with. They were probably from the late 1800s/very early 1900s, and I used to play with and try to use them on a local pond or two when I was young. For whatever reason, the park service did, and still does, have them displayed at the Canal Visitor Center in Valley View, on a part of the still existing Ohio Canal. The only things apparently still left from the old tools and items my family had donated. What a waste. I doubt there would have been many, if any, complete surviving tools sets from people who worked on the Erie or Ohio Canal canal boats from back in the day. No one in the family ever thought to take pictures of the tools and the chest because we believed the government, and expected everything donated to end up on display one day. Like I said, so much for trusting and believing a branch of our federal government!!!