Re: Sounds like a nice find!
Randy Johnson Connersville, IN
>Silly me, guess I've got dumbassitis setting in, tisk, tisk, tisk. ;~)
Not really, One of the best friends I ever had, he passed away a year ago last September, had so much stuff that HE could have misplaced one in mint condition in the box. While he was still in good health he had two huge auctions and still had more than most of us ever acquire when he died. The GOOD stuff didn't make it to the final auction and even at that I got: 604, 605C, type 9 6C, basket case but restorable to user 12, lots of parts, totes, knobs, blades etc. and even a hand-made bowsaw that I'd given him as a present several years ago. I also bought the shelves he used to display items when he was at fleamarkets and tool shows. Total expenditure for the day was $106 dollars. I'd of spent more but I was a little strapped for cash. Buy of the day was a box full of mostly empty OLD flask- style blackpowder and older smokeless powder cans. There were also at least two (it's been years since I've seen them - I didn't see them at the auction) of the blackpowder cans that were full and still had the paper shipping wrappers on them. The box sold for about twenty bucks. ONE of the empty blackpowder cans would have sold for 35 or 40 dollars fifteen years ago.
BTW, like I said, his GOOD stuff never made it to the auction. None of us who qualified as cronies know what his daughter and son did with it. We are hoping it went to a TOOL auction somewhere and isn't rusting away in a barn.