Thorsen " Gold Bond" set?? and some other goodies that cost me two planes.....

[dimwittedmoose51]

I'll directly email Oily on this Thorsen deal, but the red box set part is complete, but I'm wondering if this set was part of a "Gold Bond " stamp exchange way back when??  I guess it could be a special promotion or whatever, but don't see any gold on anything, but then I don't see a definitive Gold Bond Stamp logo either.  Oh well, the set is in great shape and came from Oakland.

LEFT SIDE
The Thorsen Allied rat is from Japan and the other Thorsen bits I think are all USA.
The sockets on the lower left go like this  2 Bonneys, A New Britain 5/8" plug socket, 2 Williams, Deep Wall Husky, 2 Wrights, and a really strangely shaped 1/4" drive socket for maybe some sort of carb adjuster or something like that??

MIDDLE SECT.
Vim Security Torx set
Williams ext.
Plomb ext. and swivel socket
Proto LA 3/8" flexover in great condition.
2 V-series combos
Williams DOE
Proto Black series combo
SK DBE

RIGHT-ISH SIDE
Old SK 3/8" rat and some adapters/sockets/1" ext.
Blackhawk combo
long set of no name feeler gauges
Some Indestro and Duro  orphans

The coffee can has several Barcalo/Buffalos in it

[Bill Houghton]

Yes, there were Gold Bond stamps; Wikipedia's riff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_stamp.  In my childhood, in the San Francisco Bay Area, they got kind of overwhelmed by Blue Chip (known in our family as "Blue Chimp") stamps, but I recall going into stores where they were offered.  A neat historical add-on to a nice little socket set.

What two planes did you give up for all these tools?

[dimwittedmoose51]

The Kroger Food store chain back in the 70's did Top Value Stamps and one of the redemption centers was next door to their warehouse in N. Little Rock(where I worked at the time).  When Kroger got rid of the stamp program, they suffered mightily sales-wise due to the fact that the southern housewives treated those stamps like it was their allowance money and shopped at other grocery stores for a while.  Eventually, they made a small neighborhood grocery store out of the building and once they close that up in the 90's, it became an HBA sub warehouse.  Safeway was the big competitor for a long time, but not sure if they did stamps or not.

Now, back to tools.....

DM&FS