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The bottles, insulators, and mason jar thread and other cool finds (even bunnys fans)
February 4, 2012 at
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Well it was an estate sale but kind of like a hoarders place. The lady and guy running it said there was about 1/4 of what had originally been in there. I got a big industrial westinghouse fan for $3 and an assortment of telegraph insulators an old glass clorox bottle for $4. My wife got an antique mirror they had priced at $25 for $10. she said she could tell by the glass it was old.
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Not sure how much these glass insulators are worth but id never seen a green one before and the 2 blue ones were big.
I literally found something I was looking for up here where I live, but couldn't find, bought it, and had it shipped home to me
What truly amazed me was the price of old Pyrex bowls, complete sets like I have in my kitchen cabinets I'm like you have to be kidding me $100++ for a complete set, and I'm thinking I'm sitting on some serious money in old Pyrex bowls that I never gave away
Something kind of like this only what they had looked a lot better:
A brand new Walker Jack was what was stolen from us by a "scrapper" - boy were we pissed beyond words Long story short - hubby took it and a bunch of other stuff out of his truck at the curbside, covered it all over - to drive down to his Dad's to do something - and within moments a scrapper came by - lifted the cover - and took the brand new Walker Jack - we couldn't catch up with him to retrieve it And, we never replaced it - they are NOT cheap We are talking a distance of two houses between us when this happened - and that scrapper had to have been watching our house to see hubby do this Hubby learned his lesson that day - never ever to put things like that at the curbside, emptying the bed of the truck, just to quickly run down to this Dad's house. That was a costly loss
Something kind of like this only what they had looked a lot better:
That brass lantern and this ship's porthole would be things I would love to have to decorate the one bedroom in my house I love items like this that are original and have the patina on them. I found a set of oars on CL's for $5 for the set, and grabbed them; knowing they were worth a minimum of $25 to $30 for the pair - they are hanging on the walls as decoration; and they were like brand new.
Today we were talking about his Taper Flex Ski's and saying maybe we should clean them up - and hang them as well - I think his Water Skiing days are over, and they are great looking ski's.
Today we were talking about his Taper Flex Ski's and saying maybe we should clean them up - and hang them as well - I think his Water Skiing days are over, and they are great looking ski's.
Find some old ship's rope and make it into towel racks etc. Maybe even coil it up and make a floor mat for outside the shower.
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I'll check the other catalogs tomorrow and let you know.
Find some old ship's rope and make it into towel racks etc. Maybe even coil it up and make a floor mat for outside the shower.
I'm starting to wonder if maybe this jack isn't as old as I thought. I figured since it was mechanical and not hydraulic that it was pretty old but that may not be the case. Most of the older jacks, Walker included, appear to be cast rather than plate steel which this one is.
Also, on most of the earlier jacks I have seen the logo, or in this case the "Walker" name was either cast right into the metal or they had a plate riveted on.
What is weird is that I can find very little information or pictures of mechanical floor jacks at all, either very old or in later years. When I get a chance to dig this jack out again from the dark recesses of my garage I will look it over good and see if there are any other markings or a place where an identification tag might have been attached.
The wheels do have the appearance of being old though, but of all the pictures of jacks that I found I didn't see anything very close to these.
I found a forum where there seems to be some people with a lot of knowledge about old jacks and shop equipment that I will sign up for when I get a chance and see if anyone there can tell me what I have.
The first is a McGraw "Zero" fan.
The second one and definitely the better of the two is an Emerson Electric model 79648-AT. This would have been an excellent find if it had the brass fan blades. It is very heavy and seems to be well built. Hopefully it will still run.
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