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This mahogany tool box is 30" wide, 8 3/4" high and 6 1/4" deep. Often these were made in high school shop class. This one is built with lap joints that are glued and screwed. It has one drawer. It has the original finish, and the mahogany would look beautiful refinished.
Shipping weight - 14 lb.
The small brass fireplace tongs are SOLD - 19 1/2" long. The brass handle is 3 1/4".
The larger tongs are 25 5/8" long with a 2" long handle. $20 + S&H
The other piece is a shovel handle & shaft. You can see on the bottom right
where it would have been joined to the shovel scoop. The brass handle is 5"
long where it meets a nice bulbous shape in the forged iron. Overall length
is 24 1/4". $20 + S&H
According to Tom MacGregor, (a site visitor 11/1/09), "This vise is for holding the pipe, not a tap or die. The diamond shape stepped opening will grab a variety of diameters of iron pipe and keep them from turning as the pipe cutter is spun around, a reamer in a brace removes the burr left by the cutter, and the die is turned to cut threads. I used my grandfather's 1920's era vise (nearly identical to this example)and thread cutting tools just last week setting up an air compressor system."
Shipping weight - 18 lbs.
(Note: I'm not sure of the correct termonology, but you'll get the idea)
The all wood turn-screw is 7 3/4" long for a working depth of 5 ". It looks to be made of oak.
The body is hardwood (possibly maple) is 54 3/4". There are 2 rows of holes which allows pegging in 1 1/2" increments. As you can see from this photo, it's completely pegged together. I believe the only metal in the whole thing is a point sticking out of the end of the wooden screw thread presumably to stabilize the piece being clamped.
The shoe (jaw) and bottom peg are not original.
Willing to discuss delivery within 100 miles of Amherst, MA. Will research shipping beyond that on request.
The pine top and bottom planks show the marks from a large circular blade typical of mills in the last half of the 19th century. They each have a groove on one edge that leads me to believe they may have originally been made from leftover wide tongue and grooved planks (sub-flooring?). The bottom board has a narrow and shallow groove on either side, I'd guess to direct liquid away from the object(s) being pressed and dried. There are remnants of square nails. The current foot was a more 'recent' addition.
The 4 narrow cross boards on the top piece were probably added as reinforcement, because it was easier to nail them on than to make a new top piece, as the wood started to split. I'd guess these repairs were made ca. 1920 ... (9" wide and 24" long)
I'm open to suggestions, but my current guess is that it was used to press cheese (farmer's?). I had originally thought it might have been for pressing plant leaves such as tobacco, but there's none of the dark staining that I'd expect to see.
Shipping weight 12 lbs.
I bought this pine creeper (car dolly) from my 80 yr old neighbor in 1976. He had been a carpenter, and had built it to work on his car and truck. I had never asked him, but my guess is that the plans had come from a magazine such as Popular Mechanics in the 20s or 30s.
There is a little bit of dry rot on several slats (pictured), where it had been resting on end in one of his sheds when I found it.
It measures 21 3/4" wide by 42 1/8" long by 4 1/2" high.
By the way, the last car that he owned and drove was a '56 Ford which was still in his garage in '76 (and subsequently sold).
Shipping weight 18 lbs.
This Fischer and Porter controller and Flow measurement device was used in paper
manufacturing. It came out of a defunct paper mill in Holyoke MA, in the 1980s.
(probably Valley Paper) There is still some bits of paper mash inside the case.
The fittings on the bottom left and right indicate they were for controller air
supply and air output. There are also 2 other fittings in the middle. The drum
in the middle says "1 day" - presumably how often the round chart paper would
have needed replacement. The guides on the face indicate that it measures, "
cc/min. liquid sp. gr. 1.0". I would guess that it opened and closed valves
as well as charting the day's performance.
This Pelton compressor looks to be in good original condition with the exception of the broken (and missing)casting piece shown in the detail ... next to the stencil that says "Automatic Pelton Switch". While I once tested the motor with a temporary chord, I am selling it as is. As you might expect, the wiring is brittle. I know very little about compressors, but there does seem to be compression as it cycles through.
Pelton & Crane has been in business since 1900. Their products were built
for use by dentists ...
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