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Nice Saw Handle

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Nice Saw Handle

Todd Hughes

>Got this little key hole saw yesterday and thought it's handle was so nice I would show it to you.Is an older Harvey Peace with split nuts, I think that these older peace saws have about the nicest handles going.

Did very well at my wed. auction,had been closed for two weeks and lots of tools were there for me.I made several large piles and got everything I bid on and only paid too much I think on one lot.Probably best lot was the one I made that had older collins hatchets ,machate,stanley 5 and 4 plane,4 adj. mouth Stanley spoke shaves, neat never used brass safe jaws for a vice,MF brace,couple chisels,Stanley 4 square tape and a beautiful tiny folding Chapin wood rule. I was prepared to go pretty high esp. with the Collins stuff but not much interest and I got everything for $10.Gave the handle of the 5 to a friend inexchange for him buying me lunch so I think I made out pretty good.....well have to get to my every other week antique shop...wish me luck!....Todd


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William R. Duffield, on the Cohansey

>A very elegant handle, Todd, and a good score. I'm putting the photo in my saw handle file for future reference. Do you figure the cold weather kept the competition at home?

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>That is a beautiful handle, sure is nice to hear your auction reports again.

Pam

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Estimating Collins hatchet 's age

Greg B�tit, Vergennes, VT

>Thanks for posting the picture, Todd. Like Sir William I am going to archive it for future reference. Nice shape, indeed.

How do you tell an "old" Collins hatchet from a new one? How old is old?

My reason for asking is that I found a Collins hatchet in the dirt next to the cheese box track home we moved into in Ancorage, Alaska when I was 4. I still remember finding it that summer day 50 years ago. It must have been left by the builders. I still have it and use it occasionally.

Although its at least 50 years old it looks like it could have been purchased five years ago. (My Dad is a Vermonter and taught his kid to take care of his tools.) If I saw this thing in the flea market, I wouldn't have a clue that it was at least 50 years old. Is there a way of telling?

Greg -who just realized that he still has the first tool he ever owned.

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Todd Hughes

>Sam collins started to make axes in 1830 or so, I don't know off hand how the earliest were marked but what i look for are the ones that have the arm and hammer inside a crown which I believe date to befor WWII...maybe later.Collins was pronbably one of the largest makers of axes and other tools like this by the end of the 1800's, made alot for trade to S. America often in "antique" patterns......There is a very good book on Collins that I have read but haven't bought but think I will.....Todd

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