Anybody got any idea why this is on eBay "buy it now" for $145? It's the second one I've seen for over $100.
Did they actually sell at these prices?
It can't have been a very big company, we'd have seen more.
But there are a lot of rare tool failures, and even some early prototypes of eventually successful tools that don't bring much actual cash money on the collector market.
I know, I have plenty of them. heeheheheheheheh
yours Scott
Because it is listed in "The Steel Square and Its Uses: A Complete, Up-to-date Encyclopedia ..., Volume 1", (1907)
with a pretty picture....
I guess....
Rusty, what page?
Scott, no, the first one didn't sell at the asking, and there are no bids on the one currently on eBay for $145. I have one, and I paid around $5 for it. It doesn't have a lot of the plating left on it, but it's true and functional. The others are better, cosmetically, but not a lot better.
Just curious. Maybe it's like the $60 and $90 Stanley No. 199s that come up from time to time. I wondered if I had missed something about this tool.
Chap VIII, photo on page 183, description next page.
http://books.google.com/books?id=3sYJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA183#v=onepage&q&f=false
(Google only has selected pages available, need to find a real copy of this book someday)
I'd be willing to sell mine for $100. Anytime someone thinks they can't live with-out it.
Mike
Drat! Not in the later copy I have close to hand. Do I have an older copy somewhere...? I think, maybe...
Thought it odd that William Radford edited the book and the squares were for sale from (The Radford Architectural co) for $1.25