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Other Value/Tool Guides
Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine
>I'm wondering what other value guide books/collector books you folks are using beside Walters? Walters is good, but there are many other tool makers out there besides Stanley. Also there are tools out there that most folks, myself included know nothing of, don't even know that they exsist, and will probably never even see that if nothing else would be nice to at least have a picture of.
Todd O.
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paul womack
>there are many other tool makers out there besides Stanley.
Say it ain't so, Joe.
BugBear
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David Miller from Iowa
>Dave Heckel's Sargent Guide and his 45 guide are great. Otherwise, for me, it's obsessive surfing on eBay to understand values.
Sargent Guide
Bill Ward
>Dave Heckel recently published a second edition of his Sargent guide. Fine Tool Journal was selling them for $22.
Clarence Blanchard (of Fine Tool Journal) and another guy recently published an old tool price guide. I took a quick look at it at an antique store (they sell lots of different antique price guides) and decided to pass on it. Might be of benefit to some others, though.
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Todd Hughes
>the old standby "The Antique Tool Collocters guide to vaule" by Ronald Barlow is pretty good. While prices can be off some it does show lots of tools and will give you an idea of what is what also the price is pretty cheap and it is a common book to find.....Todd
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Mike Lietzow
>I picked up a copy of Barlow's book at a flea market about a year or so ago. I don't know how accurate the tool values are (since my copy was published some time ago) but it's one of my favorite books to just thumb through and enjoy, much more entertaining than either Stanley guide I have.
Cheers,
Mike
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L. Hanson - N. Idaho
>I'll second the reference to "The Antique Tool Collecters Guide to Value" by Ronald Barlow. I have a well worn copy that was bought new in 1985, and still use today. It's a bit dated, but covers a wide gamut of tools.
It's basically just a collection of prices/listings realized at auction for old tools, and categorized into types of tools. While photos of the tools aren't always there, he does accompany many of the listings with illustrations taken from old catalogs, helping make identification a bit easier.
A pretty good reference, if nothing else. Prices may have changed some, but it will give you a relative idea...
Leif
www.norsewoodsmith.com
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Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine
>thanks for te replies guys, I'll check into them. I do like having lots of pictures if for no other reason to know if the tool is missing any pieces or not. Came across a picture of a miter box in an old advertisement the other day, and now I know what my missing stop looks looks like.
Was kicking around the internet yesterday, and came across Donnelly's book, called guide to Antique Tools Catoluge, or something like that. Anybody got comments concerning those?
Todd O.