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Preston 1909 catalog for Wiley & Alice *LINK*
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>Wiley, Alice, and anyone else who'd like to buy one of everything Preston, I found a great catalog on ebay last week, great printing job, forward by Mark Rees, 168 pages plus addenda short catalogs, 2 pages of iron spokeshaves, 3 pages of chamfer shaves, quirk routers, etc., and 1/2 page of wooden shaves at multiple sizes. All in all, a great read.
Re: Preston 1909 catalog for Wiley & Alice
paul womack
>I think he has one of those on eBay pretty much permanently.
I got mine straight from the shop in Needham.
BugBear
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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>Yes, that's what I figured; therefore making this a source of information rather than a gloat, which your "straight from the shop in Needham" definitely qualifies for. :)
Pam
Thanks, Pam
Alice Frampton, UK
>I did already know of its existence and am doing my level best not to be the slightest bit tempted ;~)
Cheers, Alf
Hah! Resistence is feudal [sic]. :)
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
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Re: Preston 1909 catalog for Wiley & Alice
paul womack
>rather than a gloat, which your "straight from the shop in Needham" definitely qualifies for. :)
Oops - silly me :-)
BugBear
LEVEL best?
Dan Moening
>As a general rule, I tend to not to shoulder the burden of others and brace for the best when sightings of such a nature are in plane view. ;^)
~Dan.
That AWL you got? ;~)
Alice Frampton, UK
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LOL
Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia
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Wiley Horne--Glendora, CA
>Hi Pam,
Thanks a lot for the followup! Very thoughtful. My first thought was to go fishing on Ebay. Turns out Astragal Press is selling these for $15 + UPSshipping, so I went that way. If you hadn't posted this, I wouldn't have gone searching, so much thanks. Also, congratulations to the UK folks who own the real deal.
Wiley
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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>Ouch, I overpaid a dollar! Hope this doesn't spoil my rep. :)
Pam
Yabbut
Wiley Horne--Glendora, CA
>you'll come out on the shipping--I paid $7 just to have it done.
Wiley
Re: Yabbut
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>Well, thanks, that makes me feel a lot better. $1 here, $1 there.... on into Dirkson.
Pam
Re: Preston 1909 catalog for Wiley & Alice
paul womack
>Also, congratulations to the UK folks who own the real deal.
Just to be clear, I've got the same reprint(*) as is being discussed - an original costs MONEY unless you're really lucky.
BugBear (with a 3 GBP 1908 issue of Modern Practical Joinery)
(*) IIRC there's another reprint of a Preston catalogue with a different date out there.
Re: Preston 1909 catalog for Wiley & Alice
Don McConnell
>Bugbear wrote (in part):
" ... IIRC there's another reprint of a Preston catalogue with a different date out there."
That is correct. Ken Roberts reprinted the July 1901 (Sixth Edition) Edward Preston & Sons Ltd. Illustrated Price List. That reprint was published in 1979.
Don McConnell
Eureka Springs, AR