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Antique tools and other interesting things:

Here is a collection of antique items that may be of interest to metal workers ... or not ...

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Bench Anvil and Work Support (319):

This is an unusual and useful bench anvil support tool. It may have been used by cobblers ... but ... can be helpful to anyone.

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Bench Mount Eyelet Press Tool (274):

This is a leather worker or cobbler tool.

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Antique Bench Shear (310)

This old bench shear is in good condition. It even has a spare set of jaw blades!

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Antique Bench Shear (311)

This bench shear is in good condition. The jaw blades are like new!

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Cooper's Barrel Banding Tool (674)

This rare and collectible tool was used by barrel makers (coopers) to drive the steel barrel bands down tight over the barrel staves.

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Block Ice Carrying Hooks:

Here is an old and interesting ice hook.

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Antique Railroad Train Caboose Anvil-Vice (A10)

This anvil-vice combo was once popular with home and farm do-it-yourselfers. I read somewhere (so it must be true) that these anvil-vices were bench mounted in train cabooses for handling hook, door latch and fastener problems while trains were under way. Is this really true? Beats me!

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Antique Wood and Brass Mayes 48" Bubble Level

This old wood level is in perfect condition. It lays straight and true and the bubble tubes are totally working right.

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Antique Chisel Made from a Rasp (106)

This is a classic vintage blacksmith made tool.

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Basket Handled Fire Poker (702)

Here is a wonderful example of old-school ornamental blacksmithing. The basket was expertly forge-welded in a coal forge.

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Bottle Opener (700)

Here is an interesting leaf motif bottle opener.

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Carpenter Hatchet Head (103)

Here is an interesting old hatched head. It appears to be set up for flush cutting on it's right side.

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Carpenter Hatchet (141)

Here is an old carpenter's hatchet.

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Cast Iron Bear Paw Trivets (101 A and B) - Sold

Unusual trivits.

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Cast Iron Campfire Roasters

Fun oven and campfire roasting plates.

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Cast Iron Dutch Oven

Campfire cooking with a Durch Oven is practical and fun!

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Cast Iron Sauce Pot (231)

This cast iron sauce pot look like small Dutch Oven ... and can be used to cook and bake for one or two people.

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Cast Iron Sauce Pot (230)

Here is a small sauce pot for melting and warming butter, gravy, maple syrup ... and so on ...

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Cobbler Shoe Support Stand (269)

Here is an interesting 3-way cobbler's shoe stand. It would make a handy portable anvil for tinsmithing.

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Cobbler Shoe Support Stand Set (320)

This appears to be a complete cobbler's shoe stand set. Nice!

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Cobbler Shoe Support Tool (87)

I have no idea what this really is ... but ... it looks like a cobbler's tool to me.

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Cobbler Tool (573)

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Cobbler Tool (574)

I think this "Ball and Ring" tool is used by cobblers to relieve local shoe pressure on toes with bunions.

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Cobbler Tool (575)

Here is another "Ball and Ring" tool. I think it is used by cobblers to relieve local shoe pressure on toes with bunions.

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Cobbler Tool (572)

I don't know what this tool actually does.

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Cobbler Tool (577)

Here is another "mystery tool."

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Coffee Warmer Ball (701)

As they work, blacksmiths reheat their coffee using this gizmo. They just lay it in their forge next to a work piece ... and ... when red hot, plunge it into their half-full coffee mug. Voila ... hot coffee!

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Diagonal Cutter (570)

Here is a "no more Mr. Nice Guy" diagonal cutter. It is big!

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Fence Wire Puller (110)

This is not really a fence wire puller ... but ... it was definitely made to pull hard on something about one inch square ... before being pulled on!

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Hand Crank Bench Grinder

Here is a mid-size antique bench tool grinder

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Hand Crank Bench Grinder (145)

Here is a another mid-size antique bench tool grinder

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Hatchet (654)

Here is an antique style hatchet-axe. The head is angle-offset from the shaft in a way that suggests this tool may have had a secret and subtle use as a weapon. Frankish battle hatchet-axes of the middle ages have this feature.

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Hatchet (655)

Here is an antique style carpenter hatchet. The shape is very good for use as a trail and camping hatchet. It would be carried tucked in the belt ... and thus ... be ready for use in an instant.

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Hatchet (659)

Here is an old style camping hatchet. This kind of broad cutting face is often found in old-schools limbing axes.

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Hatchet (660)

Here is a classic carpenter hatchet.

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Hatchet (662)

Here is another classic carpenter hatchet.

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Hay Hooks

Here are two pairs of hay hooks. They can hook other things than hay, I suppose.

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Hay Scythe (744)

Here is an old fashion hay scythe. This scythe would be a perfect addition to a "Grim Reaper" Halloween costume!

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Hay Scythe (745)

Here is an old fashioned hay scythe. This scythe would be a perfect addition to a "Grim Reaper" Halloween costume!

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Ice Cutting Axe Head

Here is an antique "freeze-your-ass-off-in-the-winter-and-sip-tall-cool-ones-in-the-summer" mid-west style ice block cutting axe head.

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Lead Casting Ladel (236)

This long handled lead melting ladel was probably made for casting bullets in a campfire.

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Lead Casting Ladel (239)

Here is another long handled lead melting ladel. It was probably made for melting lead for bullets using a campfire. It comes with some free lead!

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Lead Casting Ladel (691)

Here is folding handled lead melting ladel. It was probably made for melting lead for bullets using a campfire. This is a rare example old-school blacksmith cleverness and craftsmanship. It looks like it has never been used.

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Log Splitting Wedges (111 112 113 671 )

These three log splitting wedges have never been used.

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Mystery Tool (577)

I have no idea what the purpose-use of this tool is.

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Old Hatchet Head (553)

Here is an old hatchet head for carpentry and tree limbing.

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Old Hatchet Head (663)

Here is an old hatchet head for carpentry and tree limbing.

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Old Hatchet Head (664)

Here is an old hatchet head for carpentry and tree limbing.

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Old Hatchet Head (665)

Here is an old hatchet head for carpentry and tree limbing.

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Old Hatchet Head (666)

Here is an old hatchet head for carpentry and tree limbing.

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Old Hatchet Head (667)

Here is an old hatchet head for carpentry and tree limbing.

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Old Hatchet Head (668)

Here is an old hatchet head for carpentry and tree limbing.

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Old Hatchet Head (669)

Here is an old hatchet head for carpentry and tree limbing.

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Old Hatchet Head (670)

Here is an old hatchet head for carpentry and tree limbing.

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Old Leather Briefcase (578)

This old briefcase is made out of heavy leather. Back in the day it was probably full of legal briefs. I used it to store ccobbler tools.

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Ornamental Cast Iron Piece (555)

Here is a cast iron ornamental decoration. Mount it over your bedroom door!

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Pickaroon Head (104)

This old pickaroon head was used to wrassle logs around in saw-mill ponds.

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Pinking Machine (273)

Before serging machines were invented, seamstresses would use pinking shears and pinking machines like this one to trim cloth edges. Pinking the edges much reduced subsequent fraying. This one could be used to make leather creations more interesting to look at.

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Pulaski Head (102)

Here is a bright and shiny pulaski head. Because it can chop down trees and dig ditches, the pulaski is a primary tool used by firefighters battling forest fires.

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Pulaski Head (85)

Here is another pulaski head. This one is smaller and lighter. It is good for smaller people and backyard gardening.

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Pulaski Head (672)

Here is a brand new pulaski head. Because it can chop down trees and dig ditches, the pulaski is a primary tool used by firefighters battling forest fires.

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Saw - Two Man (346)

Here is a classic two-man push-and-pull buck saw. It is said that, back in the day, these saws, by bucking each of the users, were responsible for two out of three wilderness partnership break-ups!

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Saw - Large Carpenter

Here is a large antique carpenter's saw. It is sharp and may have had little, if any, use.

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Sit-and-Pedal Grinder

Here is an old style shop grinder. An apprentice blacksmith would ride this tool to keep tool blades sharp for the master of the shop.

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Skillet (227)

Here is a nice old eight inch diameter cast iron pan

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Skillet (228)

Here is a nice old six and a half inch diameter cast iron pan

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Skillet (229)

Here is a nice old ten and a half inch diameter cast iron pan

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Skillet (238)

Here is a nice old six and a half inch diameter cast iron pan

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Small Antique Clamp-On Bench Vice

This vice is of a size that makes it quite helpful for around-the-house work holding tasks.

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Small Gardening Sickle (595)

A min "No-More-Mr-Nice Guy" gardening sickle

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Snap Setting Tool (569)

This old tool is handy for leather work ... I think.

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Art Deco Bronze Swim Step Girl Bracket - QTY of 1 (584) - $185

This classic bronze swim step bracket (along with its five sisters) was originally discovered on the transom of a twin engine, 47 foot 1929 Humphreys (an East Coast builder) rum-runner style (long and skinny with large diameter propeller shafts) cruiser.

Be warned: If these brazen bronze deco ladies are installed to hold up the swim step on your boat's transom, people swimming around your boat in the summer are pretty much guarenteed to be initially delighted ... and then ... properly offended by these gals, as current social sensibilities require that they should be!

This particular lady was cast from one of the originals and used as a pattern to cast several more, which were installed on the transom of a 25 foot 1947 Chris Craft Express Cruiser. This totally politically incorrect Art Deco silicon bronze lady is a true collectible.

She is 9.5 inches tall x 11.5 inches long and weights 4.7 lbs

The mounting angle is 90 degrees

To allow for specific installation requirements, there are no drill holes in this bronze casting pattern.