Check One Off My Bucket List

[Lewill2]

I have been looking for one of these for about 5 or 6 years and I finally landed it Friday at the Browns Auction Dealer Sale. It is a H. S. Gilbert multi tool. Not just a wrench but corn sheller, hammer, nail puller, screw driver, lid lifter. Design patent D70,218 patented May 25, 1926.

[Nolatoolguy]

Never knew such thing existed. Looks more like crazy abstract art, until you look closely a exams each part of the tools.

Nice find

[Bus]

Congratulations! I've been looking for one I could afford for twenty years. Mind telling how much?

[Lewill2]

I can't even tell my wife!

[bonneyman]

Congrats! It's a satisfying feeling when one find a tool they've been searching years for.

[turnnut]

do you have the patent for that sheller ?

or the date of mfg. ?

another tool  that I did not know was made.

enjoy. 

[Lewill2]

Just the design patent listed in the original post.

[turnnut]

oops, I was so fixed on the tool, I forgot your writeup info, sorry.

[rudeawakening55]

  Super neat multi tool.....

[mvwcnews]

I was surprised when I ran across the design patent -- the H.S. Gilbert tool looks so 19th Century and then to find it patented in the "Roaring Twenties." 
Congratulation Les on finding an intact one.  I've only seen two or three in 15 years  of wrench club meetings.

[Lewill2]

Don Erwin was at the dealers sale and he was standing at one of the tables looking at it. I almost fell over because I had scanned that table already and couldn't figure out how I missed it. Don and the owner were discussing it and I just listened in. Don asked me a few questions about it and then they started talking price. I walked away figuring it was a done deal. I got about six steps away and Don called me back. Don said do you want it I think I'm going to pass. I picked it up and never let go. The owner said later that he was showing it to some of the other dealers the night before and one of them told Don about it. The guy had it in his car he never had it out on his table. When Don asked about it he went out and got it.

[turnnut]

Right place at the Right time with a clear mind makes for a great day.

how much better could it get ?

[jimwrench]

Great find. Jim Moffett has picture and an old ad on page 180 of his Hand Held Corn Sheller book; but you probably already knew this.

[Yadda]

Wow!!!  Neat multi tool.

[DM11]

Congratulations!