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Eastern Pennsylvania

retired tool & die maker turned PA Auctioneer. I collect and display my items for local historical societies. They are often odd and unusual iretired tool & die maker turned PA Auctioneer. I collect and display my items for local historical societies. They are often odd and unusual items that made our forefather's lives a little easier. If it has a story to tell, I like it. 18th & 19th cen. tools are my passion. Email: navarreauctions@ptd.net (Read more)

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Brass Pointed "Dibble" 
Primitive hand forged cutting tool - Tools and Hardwarein Tools and Hardware
Fossilized Megalodon Shark's Tooth - Animalsin Animals
steam powered water recovery pump - Tools and Hardwarein Tools and Hardware
G. Carette hot air engine - Toysin Toys
Tow Fiant Tortoises From the West Indies - Animalsin Animals
another addition to my circus wagon train - Advertisingin Advertising
Stuart No. 501 steam boiler - Model Trainsin Model Trains
small beam scale - Tools and Hardwarein Tools and Hardware
child's doll clothing washing machine - Toysin Toys

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  1. Hi Lz, Could be, but my doubts keep coming back to me of the inserted hard steel edge. I own a flensing tool and the edge is not necessarily sharp, nor is it hard bladed. You could be correct...
  2. thanks for the comment, Dave
  3. Hi Brando, thank you for the comment. It is a good possibility that it is a hide scraper. The weight is there, the width and length of the tool combined with the long handle is also there. This giv...
  4. hi LZ, The blade has a tapered edge on one side (the steel insert side), it is very sharp. Too sharp to cut metal, but a perfect taper and sharpness to cut wood in a slicing manor. It is sort of lik...
  5. what a great find !
  6. much better black & red
  7. What a great table! By the way, congratulation to you and your beautiful new bride.
  8. great that you brought them back to their original color. They look great.
  9. great sculptor in ceramic. thanks for posting
  10. It may be a hand axe, or maybe it is a tool for removing the skin from a fresh kill. Anyway, thanks for posting it.
  11. I love Pugs. My wife don't, she says they're goofy looking. If I find one for sale i likely will buy It anyway. You have the greatest collection of cast iron animals that I ever seen. keep showing them.
  12. looks like a lot of effort went into the carving .... great post dave
  13. kev123.... The last turtle that I last tried to help across the highway was a snapping turtle, he gave me so much hissing and snapping that I thought it was best for him to solve the problem of crossi...
  14. great to see this project that you are on. Isn't it great the way fellow collectors help each other out on this website? I can't wait to see the restored wagon.
  15. thank you, folks, for your nice comments. to jscott.... the elephant is made from a beautiful piece of walnut (I think). It is accurately carved, and the tusks are made from real ivory. I was happy ...
  16. great old sewing machine. Thanks for posting.
  17. jscott, where do you find all these great cast iron items? I want to give you some competition, but I don't see them often.... GREAT COLLITION OF C.I. PIGS.
  18. oh, what a great collection of pigs.
  19. thank you Dave, thank you Scott, for your comments. My problem is that I have too much varied interests. If I were to concentrate my interest to only a few subjects, I could,.... first,.... be more...
  20. thank you DejaVu2 and Watchsearcher for your nice comments
  21. no breakable plastic in this tool, only cast metal, brass, ceramic, and tape. Great post!
  22. beautiful bell and great of you to help save this treasure.
  23. And a happy 2024 to you, Lata
  24. I definitely agree with you Dave, we really didn't need or should we have treated animals like we did. Fortunately, today's zoos have a much better environment for the animals to live in. I do remembe...
  25. thank you Scott for your kind words. happy New Year to you and your family. and happy New Year to all of my friends at Collectors Weekly.
  26. great piece of history. not much around from the 1700's anymore. Great description also. Thanks for posting.
  27. great find, Dave
  28. I loved my gumby. I must have lost it when I was a kid, because, unfortunately, I lost it somewhere along my childhood.
  29. wow what a find..... even if you can only visit it.
  30. I agree with Dav2no1, a food press that is missing the food container and the top plate of the press that fits on top of the food.
  31. nice collection of doggies
  32. it really is Scott, and it really is a show - stopper wherever I display it. they want a bale to take home, even to the point of knocking on our camper door while we are having lunch to tell me to ma...
  33. my bad Dave, I did show it in the past. It was setting up in my computer room and my wife said, "why don't you put it on CW and find out what it is." I guess when you get in your 70's, you do these du...
  34. Great French Bulldog you got there Scott. Last week I saw a Boston terrior that was facing straight ahead. Have you ever seen one? The price went high, and I didn't know if it was a repro or not so I ...
  35. depending on its weight, the iron weight could be a horse weight. You know, the kind that you hitch to old dobbin bridle to keep him stay where you put him. Just a guess.
  36. great cannon.... I've seen them before, but they were somewhat out of my price range. Great piece of history. Nice that you have gotten it passed down to you. It means so much more when a beloved fami...
  37. looks like a living mammoth....great sculpture
  38. I still think it's a wedge.
  39. I wouldn't strip the paint (unless it is horribly painted over the original), it is part of it's history and evolution. I would, on the other hand, oil the unpainted items with a mix of turpentine and...
  40. Thank you Blueyecon, for the nice comments. I couldn't agree with you more about the junk that is marketed today. Chinese junk is more than a name for a boat, it describes the quality of the items tha...
  41. Hi BHIFOS, I believe you're right about Tasco being made in Japan. Japan is well known for their mfg. of precision scales.
  42. thanks dav2no1 your link was very helpful
  43. thank you for teling your school experiences.
  44. thank you Watchsearcher
  45. Just found out recently that the tool is called a "geezer". I've heard this name before when referring to old men like me, but I never heard it being a name for a Cooper's tool.
  46. sorta looks like the face of a baboon. great post
  47. great story Dave, and great key
  48. thank you very much for the link TallCakes, I found it very informative and interesting.
  49. hi jkwidener, I would gladly tell you what I know concerning your oiler's mfg. I have some knowledge of the items, but there were so many Mfg. Co. that made them,it can be perplexing, but, I will do ...
  50. I did Dave, I deleted the last photo of the boiler and engine so I could edit in the photo of the water level tubing. I apologize for the lousy photo, I got a little shaky when taking the shot, the sh...
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Taxidermy Tuesday Unusual Deer Head Mount Vintage Argus Slide Projector Snapshot of soldier holding Trench Art P-38 Kim Ki-young Is Really Messing With My Weak Little Mind 1790s Brass Naval Rum Measure Unknown manufacturer and year. L.E. Green Frosted Glass Rin Tin Tin Powder Jar Toy gun?? A BEAR TABLE Steam Tractor Vintage Pair Of Cast Iron Scottish Terriers GMUNDNER- AUSTRIA Antique Photo Album Patented 1882 Metal detecting day, nothing, but spotted this Bronze Life-Size Pug Sculpture A VISITATION OF OWLS

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