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	Antique Classic Marque Car Keys - 5864844844 Published in 1993 by Key Collector's International and long out-of-print, Antique Classic Marque Car Keys is a wonderful, dense booklet covering the somewhat obscure hobby of car key collecting. The booklet illustrates thousands of keys, attributing them to source, product number, date, and price. It has a comprehensive index of all car makes with specially made keys. It also addresses non-traditional car locks, some of which are quite interesting. This is a new book direct from an ol... $19.50     View Details Add To Cart
	A Price Guide to Antique Tools, 4th ed. - 1879335972 A price guide is only as helpful as its prices are current. With this in mind, we offer a new fourth edition of Herbert Keans A Price Guide to Antique Tools, its prices taken from the latest live and Internet auctions as well as from private sales. As before, there are over 12,000 prices (individual and chart combinations) that represent extraordinary tools, as well as those found in flea markets. There is an explanation for each tool group that allows the reader to judge the condition... $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Classic Soda Machines: A Field Reference & Price Guide - PUB107 When author Jeff Walters explored writing a book about classic soda machines, he asked collectors what they wanted and they told him. "They didn't really care who was President of Vendo in 1956 or where F.L. Jacobs started out. They wanted a book that would mainly five them knowledge that would allow them to avoid making a bad deal, and help them recognize a good deal. So, that's what this book is about." And it does an exceptional job. Page after page of exceptional machines are presented. ... $22.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Collectors Encyclopedia of 19th Century Hardware with Price Guide - 0895381206 The "Collectors Encyclopedia of 19th Century Hardware with Price Guide" is a reprint of a huge 1884 catalog produced by Vajen and New of Indianapolis, IN. So many items are pictured; the index is 14 pages and the print is fine! = = For example, included are: * Blacksmith Drills * Awning Blocks * Broad Axes * Squirrel Cages * Corner Irons * Door Bell Levers * Fire Bellows * Glazier Points * Ice Chisels * Cutting Nippers * Laundry Irons * Saw Swages * Clothes Wringers * Flue Stops Some of the m... $10.79     View Details Add To Cart
	Corkscrews -1,000 Patented Ways to Open a Bottle - 0764300180 The evolution of corkscrew design is clearly presented in extensive text and displayed in over 500 photographs - over 450 in color - and 1000 U.S. patents dating from 1851 to 1994. The book is arranged chronologically to show the development of designs. Historic overviews at the beginning of each chapter relate certain cultural events that affected the popularity of corkscrews and the need for new designs. Here is a progression of corkscrews from common to unique, in materials from metals to ... $63.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Dictionary of American Hand Tools: A Pictorial Synopsis - 0764315927 Dictionary of American Hand Tools is the greatest assembly of hand tools ever. It is a fascinating chronicle of nearly every tool ever used in North America, including ancient tools used by Native Americans; trade tools used to create coaches, pianos, ships, and saddles; tools for harvesting farm goods, turpentine, and ice; and tools for fine trades such as bookbinding and watch repair. The tools are organized according to profession, from Beekeeper to Wheelwright, and will fascinate t... $31.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Early 20th Century Stanley Tools Price Guide - 0895380102 "Early 20th Century Stanley Tools" reprints The Stanley Tool catalogs from 1909 and 1926. A 2002-2003 value guide is included. $8.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Grimshaw on Saws - 096180887X Written in 1880 by Robert Grimshaw, a founder of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, this remains the definitive work, describing and illustrating all types of saws from handsaws to the most advanced late 19th century powered production models. Loaded with practical information on rake, saw setting, filing and swaging. There are tables on log measurement, machine capacity, gauging, and a list of saw patents. Finally, there are 17 pages of fascinating advertisements placed by the lea... $13.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Henry's Dutch Country Anthology - 1883294215 "Henry s Dutch Country Anthology" is a compilation of 78 articles about the culture of the Pennsylvania Dutch. With information that is available nowhere else, Kauffman's Dutch Country Anthology documents the ways today s most sought-after antiques were produced. A sampling of the articles include bells and bell towers, decorated chests, early American fireplaces, gunmaking, fold art in metals, Conestoga Wagon, Pennsylvania Rifle, locksmiths and locks, Pennsylvania pewterers, the riddle of tw... $26.50     View Details Add To Cart
	One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw - 0684867303 The seeds of Witold Rybczynski s elegant and illuminating new book were sown by The New York Times, whose editors asked him to write an essay identifying the best tool of the millennium. The award-winning author of Home: A Short History of an Idea and, most recently, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, Rybczynski once built a house using only hand tools. His intimate knowledge of the toolbox, both its contents and its history, serves... $8.75     View Details Add To Cart
	Price Guide to Pocket Knives 1890 - 1970 - 0895380242 This series of catalog reprints features thousands of pocket knives from makers such as Ostenhom & Sons, Hibbard-Spencer, Bartlett & Co., John Primble, Joseph Allen & Son's, Keene Cutlery, Keen Kutter, New York Knife Co., Remington, Scrade Walden, Tree Brand, Van Camp, Watauga, Winchester, and more. Current values (2005-2006) included. $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Slide Rules: A Journey Through Three Centuries - 1879335948 Originally published in German, in 1977, as the first major book on the history of the slide rule since Florian Cajoris A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule, this newly revised and translated edition of Slide Rules, A Journey Through Three Centuries, offers readers a fresh, more Continental, perspective on this most fascinating of calculating instruments. The book is an important piece of historical and tech-nological research, in which the author includes the history of the ... $16.50     View Details Add To Cart
	The Ultimate Corkscrew Book by Don Bull - 0764307010 A terrific book for the collector and anyone interested in the history and diversity of the corkscrew, a small creation that has inspired many designs and like wine itself, turns up in interesting places throughout our civilization. In the Foreword, corkscrew expert Ron MacLean states "This volume is the armchair guide to corkscrews. By perusing the 3600 illustrated and documented examples, it is possible to gain an understanding of the diversity and creativity that occurred in the past seve... $67.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Tool Tales, Stories and Tips for the Antique Tool Collector - 1931626057 Storytelling is an ancient art. At their best, stories provide a very personal and engaging way to pass information, experience, insight and imagination from one group to another, from one generation to another. Tool Tales is full of such stories. Its author, Herb Kean, is a noted tool collector, dealer, restorer and author (as well as renowned raconteur). Here, he has culled from magazines, journals, newspapers and encyclopedias 50 of his best stories and tips columns, written ... $11.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Town - Country Old Tools Locks, Keys & Closures - 0891454179 1000 s of tools illustrated - Axes, Planes, Blacksmith Tools, Railroad & Safe Locks & Keys. The book is chock full of information. Many different types of tools and locks & keys. Revised prices for 2003 $13.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Vintage Woodworking Machinery, Vol. 2 - 1931626197 This is the second volume in Dana Batorys series of guides to the major woodworking machinery manufacturers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Covered in this volume are Parks Machine Co., the Boice-Crane Co., Baxter D. Whitney & Son, and Crescent Machine Co. All these manufacturers built a full line of woodworking machines, but most became especially known for a particular group, e.g., Boice-Crane produced medium size and capacity machines that were ideal for home shops, school shops and small ...     View Details Add To Cart

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