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Farm and Implement Wrenches and Tools => Farm Implement Wrenches and Tools => Topic started by: rustcollector on August 17, 2013, 07:05:54 PM
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Details forthcoming, but a few teaser shots of the wrenches I picked up today.
Highlights are.....
Case mfg. co No. 1
Wheelers No. 6 chief self rake
SCP Co. (3 open end, one hex) #613 on Dill's list
Wilder, Same style and lettering as in Rathbone, but no hex opening
Those wrenches make some of the other ones feel like no big deal, but there are tons of other good, harder to find wrenches too.
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OK, totaled them up.....
245 wrenches. 60 go to my collection, the rest will move on.
12 that are exceptional, at least to me, are pictured below....
Top left is 47W Johnston Harvester
top right is Case Mfg Co 1
Wheeler's No. 6 Chief self rake, goes well with the other Wheeler wrench I found just last week
The Blackhawk is on here because it has both an S and M 167 on the back, not sure what that is all about just yet, from what I have seen it is usually an S or an M, not both
IHC V265A First I've been able to find
165G No idea about this wrench, but I really like it
last on the first picture is the SCP (syracuse chilled plow)
2nd picture...
An oddball wrench on top, no markings, I got 2 of them in the bunch, this one is slightly better
Elias Silo is next, I no longer have to envy Carl Wagner on having one and me not having one..lol, although I think his might be in better condition
Wilder, like I said earlier, no hex opening on this one
W. I. Kemp
Last is a super thick (better than 1/2 inch) oddball wrench, there was another of these, and believe it or not, an ear was broke off on it.
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That's a bunch of wrenches!!
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Auction? Flea? Most look already cleaned, definitely a haul.
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WOW!! how much for the 245 wrenches?
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Auction? Flea? Most look already cleaned, definitely a haul.
Auction, 6+ total hours of drive time. I really am not a fan of wrenches that are this clean, but most were not over cleaned so I was OK with it.
WOW!! how much for the 245 wrenches?
Not a steal that I normally get, but for the quality and rarity of some, I did well enough. Should be close to recouping what I had to pay with all the extras. If it had been more local, probably would have gotten all of them for about 1/10 of what I did. But these ones don't come up locally.
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Where is Rustcollector land?
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Where is Rustcollector land?
Lower upstate NY
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Outstanding haul! They all appear to be in about the same condition. Clean and oiled, but not polished or painted. I guess it was worth the trip. Now the real work begins. Trying to sell enough to break even. Are you going to display them? If so, how?
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Are you going to display them? If so, how?
Hmmm, that seems to be the big debate right now. I've been sort of concentrating on Deere and NY companies...
Now I have enough outstanding ones on both accounts to make a nice display for next year's Canandaigua Steam show. Then the debate turned on how to do it. I was heading to work this morning and I had a thought on it. I will not do the whole pegboard thing. There are enough that do that all over the country and for the most part they start to look the same no matter what wrenches are on them.
So a thought came to me, just not sure if I can pull it off. I want to make up a board with the Deere logo in the background and the wrenches on it. I don't have a final product in my head yet, but I think I know the direction I want to go. The NY wrenches will be on a board cut out to the shape of New York with the wrenches in as close a proximity to their origin as possible. Big plans, but I think I actually have time to get these ones done.
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If you have as many SCP wrenches as I think you do, you could build a full scale model of New York ;P
Keep pondering tho, I like it, the pegboard thing is certainly tired...
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You could make an outline of NY state with the wrenches.
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Great find. Glad you found the Elais. The SCP is your treasure there. That's an unobtainable.
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You could throw your ole buddy Carl a bone and just ship me the spare Caledonia I see in there ...Heehee
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You could throw your ole buddy Carl a bone and just ship me the spare Caledonia I see in there ...Heehee
I had you in mind when I got them. One will head your way some how I'm sure. We'll work something out sometime.
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Update....
Just realized there is what I believe to be a Deere/Syracuse Z3 wrench in there also. This wrench had me a bit puzzled, as it looked like the script SCP style, but is completely unmarked. It wasn't until I read Dill's list for about the 50th time that I realized the Z3 is UNmarked. Pretty sure this is it. Hopefully somebody can confirm one way or the other. While it doesn't show it in the picture, the lenth is actually 10 3/4".
Also found a David Bradley 125, but it is fairly rough.
Edit.. I just got the pictures to load from the Friedman Auction on the wrenching news. It matches the Z3 on there.
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Nice hall, I would say you did pretty good.
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You are correct on the deere wrench. Its shown in volume two of petes book as well.
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Never thought to look in volume 2, I rarely use the hard cover of volume 2. Mostly all foreign wrenches.
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Wow such a auction. Great buys. Had trouble typing this since I kept drooling on keyboard. Congratulations.
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Thanks everyone. Like I said earlier, I paid pretty good for all of it, but not nearly what I think the value would be if they were out in a York, NE auction, or other well publicized wrench auction. I paid just a little over what the Elias wrench brought at the Friedman auction back in 2006 for all of them.
I need to get busy selling some of the extras soon, I can't sit on them until next Canandaigua show. Not sure I want to do the ebay stuff anymore, but I may have to.
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How much did the Elias bring at the 2006 auction?
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How much did the Elias bring at the 2006 auction?
I had told Carl after he asked, but to others interested,the Elias brought seven and a quarter.
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One was listed on Fee-bay a few months ago. Had ot totally listed wrong and it brought in The $200 range. I believe Mr. Marshall ended up with it. I'm proud to have one behind glass in my "gooduns" case.
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Was it the one that was listed as a propeller wrench or something like that?