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Re: Atha catog 1904
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2013, 09:21:37 AM »
Valuable? Yes, but not THAT valuable to me.
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Re: Atha catog 1904
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2013, 10:05:02 AM »
I would be all over that, if it wasn't priced by a crack-head eBay seller.

That would make a great reference to have.
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Re: Atha catog 1904
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2013, 09:29:54 PM »
I like how they used to sell wedges and sledge hammer heads by the pound (-:
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Re: Atha catog 1904
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2013, 10:16:59 PM »
>hammer heads by the pound

The early ironmakers would have been happy just selling chunks of iron, that's what they were making, and that's all they wanted to sell, but , a chunk of iron isn't all that usefull to the average person, and there a limited number of folks around who could make other things out of it.
So the iron makers bacame foundries as well, making pots, axes, hammers and other simple shapes, just as a way to be able to sell their iron locally. Since a pound of iron is the same no matter if it is a chunk, ingot or a hammer, it seems to have not mattered to them much, and became somewhat traditional to sell many of those things by weight...

Now if only I could buy Snap-On tools by the pound...
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Re: Atha catog 1904
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2013, 11:04:35 AM »
Yah, you could bring your own sack and pick them up in the bulk section!
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