1885 Goff patent

[Plyerman]

the Goff style lifter with the spring is at auction with a bunch of tools.

they will be at MJD's auction July 23. at his place in N.Y.

lot number; 160 2190

Looks like its a coil-spring version. Thanks turnnut, I'll throw a bid on it!


Sidebar: Man, don't you hate it when an auction house lumps a whole bunch of random items into one lot? I'm going after the one tool, but my luck one of those other wrenches in the lot will be the last one someone needs to complete a set, and they will outbid me for it. Grrr. >:-(

[turnnut]

Plyerman, when I saw that listing, my thoughts were, "what is that doing in that lot ?"

good luck.

[Plyerman]

Thayer Plus the wood handle version. Not sure who made the wood handled one.

Hey Les, I was finally able to obtain one of these with the wooden handle. While cleaning it up, lo and behold there were some faint markings along the face: PAT FEB 28 82

A bit of sleuthing later and Hello!, there was patent 254,427

[Yadda]

Neat! 

[Lewill2]

Thank You for that.