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The last on-line auction I "attended" was near the end of September, 2021. Several tool lots; won a few; several I didn't. Most of my purchases were more L&G related stuff so I won't bore you with that. However, one lot turned out to have some surprises. Actual auction site pictures. I bid on this lot thinking the tool box might be an old Craftsman or ??? hip roof tool box. Didn't look inside the toolbox really at the pick-up site. It was kinda frenzied there and I was under a time crunch to get back in time for grandson's football games plus my stuff was located all over and you had to pick and load everything yourself. I wasn't sure I could carry & load the tool box by myself after I grabbed it off he bench. Good thing I got there early and was parked pretty close. I figured with the tool box and the random stuff I'd bid up to $10. The tin on the right had a couple dozen or more random drill bits + driver bits, + a new 1/4" dr, T-15 or T-20 torx bit (don't remember now). There was another tin directly below that was full of miscellaneous screws etc. The bucket + Folgers containers were loaded with new, packaged, random hardware. The grandsons were happy with the (2) Official Little League baseballs. Right picture shows the toolbox. A really nice HD box that someone fabricated likely in a HS metal working class. Its HEAVY even w/o any tools but... A few tools were in the tray. I could see some of them in the auction picture. A couple of chalk lines. Left one is a newer Irwin model. Gave it to daughter's fiancee'. Right one is a Straight-line...needs some work. Some 1/4", 3/8" & 1/2 drive sockets and extensions. Once they hit the wire wheel, then buffing wheel, all but one went to daughter's fiancee'. So why was this box so heavy beside made from 1/16" steel?... ...cause all this was in the bottom. A few treasures as it turned out. Next picture does some 'splainin' Lucy... (#1) is a Stanley Handyman, 10" (IIRC) swing ratcheting brace. Still has the decals on it. Probably late '60's-early 70's? Needs some TLC, but it works. (keeper) (#2) Stanley, Sliding T-bevel. 1st look, identified it as a No.25; more to come later. (pry from my cold dead hands type of keeper) (#3) Stanley 481A-18 (oz) masonry hammer; needs a little work, oh & a handle but don't make them like this for a long time. (keeper) (#4) Wards-Master (Monkey Wards) 1/2" drive speed handle; probably from the 1960's?? I have one (same brand) that was my grand-dads from the late 40's-early 50's. Been my user & in my tool box since the late 1960's so daughter's fiancee' scored it too. So what else of interest is in there? Well..let's see. First lots of 1/4" & 3/8" shallow well sockets, mostly metric and mostly Taiwan. Cleaned 'em up passed them on to daughter's fiancee' (#1) A Snap-on, combination box-end wrench from late 40's to early 50's. It may have been plated or could have originally been black oxide coated. NO evidence of ANY plating remained. more pictures at the end. (#2) A Craftsman combination box-end wrench from the 40"s to early 50's by logo. (#3) A Craftsman combination open-end wrench from the late 30's to early 40's Probably was plated originally, but long gone; pics at the end (#4) 1 of a set of Proto combination open-end wrenches from 1/2' to 1-1/16"; missing the 3/8-7/16" wrench. Cleaned up very nice; gifted to daughter's fiancee' The remainder is still in the box waiting on spring for next step. except the (2) 1/2" drive, deep impact sockets on the left. Already in my "shop box" Snap-On wrench is 1-1/16" x 1-5/16". In a former life, these sizes were used quite often. I actually have a newer version of it. The Craftsman is 15/16" x 1". I've since completely removed all the rust from both, coated with wax then wrapped in wax paper until I decide their fate. Likely, I'll clean again, then cold blue them along with some others in the box. I've since found another Craftsman, same era (3/4"x13/16" IIRC) in the box. The Stanley masonry hammer. Re-furb started, but will have to wait until spring now to finish. You know my rule...? "...if your tongue sticks to the metal, too cold to be working in the shop" Last, remember that Stanley No. 25 sliding T bevel? Well, I finally dug a little deeper when I removed a little more rust from the blade... Made everything else a bonus IMHO. Typing this makes it a 6C, (AA) circa 1923-1935. It likely had a bright (not plated) finish but could have been blued too. I don't see any indication that bluing every existed (later version) but IDK for sure. I'll decide when warm weather returns to cold blue or not. For now, it' cleaned, waxed, wrapped in wax paper to keep my tongue from sticking. Maybe @steven newman will weigh in with his suggestions?? The rosewood body is excellent and the brass also very good. I'll do a final stand alone refurb update at that time. Oh, total for all these treasures including the baseballs $9.20 with buyers premium and I made it back in time for both football games. Thanks for riding along.
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