Brown #28 ...

Yow!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond,CA

>What auction was this?

Re: Brown #28 ...

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Yikes! Wonder what Dean in Burlington would have to say about these prices? Shucks, it's only $16,000, I paid more than that for my car. :)

Pam

Re: Yow!

Rob Lee

>Hi Scott -

Brown Auction Services - International Tool Auction, held twice each year...

You can see some of the items here:

http://www.finetoolj.com/bas/B28/B28.html

Cheers -

Rob

Didn't happen to notice..

Todd Hughes

>what the powder horn they had sell for? I was going to go up mainly for it ,looked kind of good. Couldn't see it very well though and not much info to take the time to go all the way up there for....Hope I didn't miss anything.....Todd

Thanks Rob!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond,CA

>Those are some rare and insteresting looking tools. I must admit I can't figure out a few of them...

Re: Didn't happen to notice..

Rob Lee

>Hi Todd -

My notes say $1350...that's low...!

Cheers -

Rob

I've never seen... *LINK*

Paul M. in San Diego

>a rolodex of rulers before. What is this thing?


rolodex-o-rulers

Aha! *LINK*

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>One of the items at that auction (first page, sixth row, right column) was clearly the inspiration for your dodeca-gauge of last year.


The inspiring, impressive, imposing dodeca-gauge

Re: Brown #28 ...

Dave Anderson Chester, NH

>That collector stuff is too rich for my blood. Maybe there'll be more reasonable stuff at the Nashua LFOD during the Friday session.

Anyone else here going to Nashua Friday?

Re: Aha!

Rob Lee

>Hi Bill -

That's a Brown and Berry gauge - six sided, but only five arms (one side is "empty" - so you can put the gauge down!). 1868 patent.

That one was in a little rough shape, and sold for $2800.

Maybe we should have run some extra's of ours...!

Cheers -

Rob

Re: Brown #28 ...

Jay St. Peter - Southern MD

>So what did you buy Rob? :)

Jay

Well...

Rob Lee

>... mostly tools...a few planes, some gauges, a few odd braces.... :)

You're gonna have to watch for catalog covers to see the stuff...and I don't want to ruin the surprise(s).

Did see a really excellent video produced by Ellis though! Bumped into him the day before the auction!

Cheers -

Rob

Oh man....

Dave Thompson

>For about a minute there, I was getting excited over one of the most impressively eccentric tools I've ever seen, thinking of a way to justify getting one ;-)

very cool.

Re: Brown #28 ...

Ray Drueke

>Ya me and maybe a neighbor. I'm looking for an infill and some spokeshaves, maybe something else rusty.

Guess I'll wear my WoodCentral hat - say hi if you see me.

Ray.

Actually Taunton's "Classic Tools" book

HC Sakman @ Victoria, BC

>seems really, really lousy. I got that book as a x-mas gift, after this show, honestly, that book looks elementary.

Nice show. Thanks Rob.

Chico...

What about the Pringle's Pat. gauge, Rob?

John Fitzpatrick

>Brown and Berry's are neat, but I was more interested in (and impressed by) the much rarer J.L.Pringle Patent gauge-- better than any design Wessel Brodhead came up with. Milt Bacheller's book says there are "no known examples"-- so was that gauge the patentee's prototype, or was the design actually put in production?

Apparently Ontario was a hotbed of ingenious tool designers in the early 1900's too (who knew?).

Re: What about the Pringle's Pat. gauge, Rob?

Rob Lee

>Either that was the second Pringle, or it was the second time it sold... we missed one last year, and missed this one too...it went beyond what I was comfortable with, at least right now.

Did buy the Pringle Mitre box though...

Cheers -

Rob

Re: I've never seen...

Dave Tardiff

>That's a high-precision slide rule. Slide rules get

more precise (more digits in the answer) as they get

bigger. That model is functionally equivalent to one

about 12' long, but easier to store.

Check out various slide rule sites for more information.