Brown tool auctions has some pretty cool stuff, here are some vintage store displays that must have been in a hardware store about 75 years ago
and two tape measure collections I found intriguing... one is Stanley, the other is Lufkin. Great way to make a novel collection no one else will have. Lots of guys have a collection of spark plugs, tools, rare car parts...
Wow! the top two pics do take me back. My dad was a chippie in his mid life after starting as a smithy at 14yrs in country Victoria. I have kept some of his tools,including the breast drill,hand drill and a brace(and bit).And a 6foot cross cut saw which sadly I have used.Later he merged into furniture manufacture which my older brother and I continued with. Sadly,like business in the US we have suffered the same selling off of the farm,and after 54yrs of operation I regrettably had to close it all down. Only other choice was to go belly up. Geez! what our so called Govts. do to the people/small and large Companies that once made our countries great!
My father was a carpenter and had the same Millers Falls automatic screwdriver. I remember he used it all the time when doing hinges on doors. that's long before the pre-hung units everybody is using today. They were hand planed, chiseled and drilled to accommodate the hinges and locksets.
Wow! the top two pics do take me back. My dad was a chippie in his mid life after starting as a smithy at 14yrs in country Victoria. I have kept some of his tools,including the breast drill,hand drill and a brace(and bit).And a 6foot cross cut saw which sadly I have used.Later he merged into furniture manufacture which my older brother and I continued with. Sadly,like business in the US we have suffered the same selling off of the farm,and after 54yrs of operation I regrettably had to close it all down. Only other choice was to go belly up. Geez! what our so called Govts. do to the people/small and large Companies that once made our countries great!
ReplyDeleteMy father was a carpenter and had the same Millers Falls automatic screwdriver. I remember he used it all the time when doing hinges on doors. that's long before the pre-hung units everybody is using today. They were hand planed, chiseled and drilled to accommodate the hinges and locksets.
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