My weekend finds

[Northwoods]

Stopped at an old house clearance and a couple of sales yesterday.  Came away with the following:
*Small Maydole 3 3/4" hammer 3/4" face 12" overall...handle marked W13
*Smaller Shapleigh Hardware Co. Diamond Edge 3" hammer 5/8" face 10 1/2" overall
*Odd bulb-handled 8 Husky screwdriver with flat shank that becomes round after about 3/4"
*7" Arrow No. 3 awl with distinctive round amber plastic handle
*11 1/2" Tobrin perfect handle style screwdriver...tip stamped 6 (or is it 9?)
*2 3/4" X 5" T type gimlet with cool steel handle
*5 hog ring pliers:
Black 6 1/2" DECKER'S HILL RINGER...black with red jaws
Red 7 3/4" DECKER'S HOLD'EM...clothespin style spring
Silver 7" STEWART GOG RING CO
6 3/4" PERFECT...heavy cross hatched diamond pattern handles
6 1/2 no name
*7 1/2" Stanley brass and walnut square
*PLVMV 5/8" flare nut wrench no. 3720...pebble finish
*5 1/2 T-1917 Ford Circle M OEW with exceptionally clear stampings
*German Oxwall OEW 19/32" X 11/16"
*10" BLACKHAWK 911X 1/2" female drive ratchet
*6" WALDEN 3119 1/4" female drive refrigerator ratchet (would it qualify as a Frankenstein?)
*18" None Better 1/2" drive spinner NB S85 (identical with my Craftsman underline Circle H)
*Beautiful H.G.BISHOP Cincinnati 1887 pat. keyhole saw with clear griffin medallion
*3 toy tools:
Common 4 1/2" pliers
3 1/2" blacksmith tongs
3 1/2" steel handled sledge hammer with 1" head...very nice
*Heavy duty no-name tool box with tray 9" X 9" X 18"
These are all smalls, but they please me.  Cost about $10 total.
Life is good in the North Woods.

[turnnut]

 $10.oo well spent, nice pickings.

[Bill Houghton]

$10 TOTAL?  Not bad at all.

I now have two Maydole-pattern hammers (one is Maydole, the other too rusty to know yet), and am leaning toward moving releasing some of my other hammers into the wild again; the pattern is just so pretty!