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Offline jimwrench

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yardstick
« on: September 22, 2017, 11:46:52 AM »
Saw this at auction and acquired to donate to small museum in Kenney Il. Not as old as I had hoped since single digit phone number fooled me. Funeral Chapel existed in 1945 to 1952. Evidently sold appliances bewteen funerals. Haven't been around cause I got married one month ago (new adventure for a 84 year old but its great)
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Re: yardstick
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2017, 11:48:44 AM »
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Offline Bill Houghton

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Re: yardstick
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2017, 12:11:18 PM »
Congratulations to you and your blushing bride!
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Re: yardstick
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2017, 06:08:14 PM »
Neat!  Congrats to you and best wishes to your spouse!
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Offline Lostmind

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Re: yardstick
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2017, 06:15:14 PM »
Around here it was Furniture in front , funerals in back.

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Re: yardstick
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2017, 07:32:10 PM »
Congratulations to you and the new bride,wishing you all the best.
 I have a bunch of yardsticks but none have a single digit, that's a great find.
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Offline turnnut

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Re: yardstick
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2017, 08:19:13 PM »
  congratulations to you and the Mrs.

  I have never come across a yard stick with single phone digit.

    in grammar school, every teacher had a yard stick and they never used it to measure anything, but --------------------------
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Offline Chillylulu

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Re: yardstick
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2017, 10:04:48 AM »
Congratulations and best wishes for you and your bride!

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Offline Lewill2

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Re: yardstick
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2017, 12:15:25 PM »
Congratulations Jim, are you going to Indy to the MVWC meet and auction?
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Offline bill300d

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Re: yardstick
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2017, 12:31:35 PM »
Well! well! well! Congratulations to you and your new bride.
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Re: yardstick
« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2017, 12:50:47 PM »
Lew, have reservations for fall MVWC meet. That being said I have a reoccurence  of a pituitary tumor and am going to try to schedule operation to remove it around wrench show.
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Offline Lewill2

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Re: yardstick
« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2017, 05:50:52 PM »
Good luck with the health issues.
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Offline p_toad

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Re: yardstick
« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2017, 09:33:14 PM »
best wishes to all on the marriage and the health issues.   no sense mixing those up with a nice rule!   :smiley:
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Offline stanley62

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Re: yardstick
« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2017, 02:13:59 PM »
I had never really looked at old yardsticks until I read this post.  I cant top the single digit phone number, but I did find a double digit and it is advert for John Deere, De Laval, Fairbanks Morse...etc.  It would have followed me home just for the advertising alone.

I call it a yardstick due to its length, but it (and another one I found) are not shaped like I think of when you say yardstick.  They are a square cross section that tapers from about 3/4" on one end down to 1/2" at the other.  Any idea what that shape is for?  They look like a walking stick, but would be pretty light for that.

 Ideas?

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Re: yardstick
« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2017, 04:04:16 PM »
Tank depth measurement, perhaps?
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