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General Category => General Discussion => Heads Up => Topic started by: Bus on December 27, 2011, 12:46:25 PM

Title: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: Bus on December 27, 2011, 12:46:25 PM: I spent several days last week in the metropolis of Iuka, Kansas helping Missouri Valley Wrench Club member Robert Burkey catalog his wrench collection for his auction on March 10 at Larned, KS.

Catalog is now on the web at:
http://www.wrenchingnews.com/burkey-auction-2012/catalog.html (http://www.wrenchingnews.com/burkey-auction-2012/catalog.html)

Photos of all the listed lots are at
http://wrenchingnews.com/burkey-auction-2012/all-pics-one-page.html (http://wrenchingnews.com/burkey-auction-2012/all-pics-one-page.html)

Photos can also be viewed as a slideshow, etc. at
http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/burkey-2012/ (http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/burkey-2012/)

Absentee bids are welcomed. See Late Breaking Wrenching News for more information at
www.wrenchingnews.com (http://www.wrenchingnews.com)
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: wrenchguy on December 27, 2011, 04:52:01 PM: nice job with the photos, this really helps potential buyers looking for iron. thanks.
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: Papaw on December 27, 2011, 08:28:47 PM: Bus, I really like the slideshow option, and the green background is great!
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: Bus on December 27, 2011, 09:53:50 PM: Thanks. The background cloth was old pool table felt the Burkey's had. I just used the florescent lighting that was in the building and set the camera (Cannon G12) on automatic.
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: Bus on March 08, 2012, 08:53:56 AM: I will be leaving for the Burkey Wrench Auction in the morning but can still take emailed absentee bids till late this evening or you can call them in to my cell number anytime up till the start of the auction.
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: Papaw on March 11, 2012, 10:46:13 PM: Two of my three absentee bids were successful!
I won Lot# 432 and Lot#433- H D Smith tools.
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd3/buswrench/burkey-2012/burkey-424-433.jpg)
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: john k on March 11, 2012, 11:25:17 PM: Those screwdrivers now, gonna take a lot of work to refresh them, new wood, you gonna share, or have that much room left on your wall?
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: Papaw on March 11, 2012, 11:58:42 PM: I'll try my hand at rescuing some of them and some could be in a future giveaway. See that three-way in the first lot?
Some may even go to 64longstep for some re-purposing.
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: 1930 on March 12, 2012, 10:46:29 AM: I did not notice this until now, what happens with the tools that dont sell or do they all go. I see at least one that I would like to have
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: Papaw on March 12, 2012, 01:18:17 PM: We'll ask Bus to tell us, but since it is an auction of a man's collection, I bet t a low bid.everything sells, even if at a low bid.
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: Bus on March 12, 2012, 02:49:01 PM: They all sell even if it's just a $1.00 for the lot.
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: 1930 on March 12, 2012, 06:18:44 PM: Thats a shame, it would be nice if a heads up were put in the general discussion section. Not trying to get out of looking all over the site but because of time limitations I can only pick and choose a few different areas of this site and this has never been one of them.
Either way, thanks for the response
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: Papaw on March 12, 2012, 06:27:38 PM: This thread is in Heads Up and started in December.
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: rusty on March 12, 2012, 06:30:40 PM: You can't win papaw...lol!
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: Lewill2 on March 12, 2012, 07:23:13 PM: Am I looking at the bottom one in the first lot wrong or is there half of the handle missing? That is one of the 3 way screw drivers and there are 2 sections of the handle. It looks like one of the sections is missing to me.
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: Papaw on March 12, 2012, 07:28:23 PM: It may be, looks like it, but at the price I paid, I don't mind. Parts!
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: rusty on March 12, 2012, 08:09:32 PM: Is the one under the orange tag an Irwin? It has a extended shank....

I know..I know...you havn't gotten them yet ;P
Title: Re: Antique Wrench Auction
Post by: Papaw on March 12, 2012, 09:24:23 PM: It does look Irwinish, and is not H D Smith, I'm sure.