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Offline Yadda

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Crescent Wrench Display
« on: September 04, 2016, 02:35:30 PM »
This has been on sale on the 'bay recently.  The board looks legitimate, but the tools don't necessarily look original.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/121860431934

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Offline Papaw

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Re: Crescent Wrench Display
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2016, 04:06:26 PM »
The bottom one doesn't quite match. The price asked is kinda overly optimistic.
Provenance- Private NC collector?
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Offline chips

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Re: Crescent Wrench Display
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2016, 06:07:54 PM »
Yea, that bottom wrench has a tapered handle.  It should be like the other ones.  I saw one in similar condition at a local auction a couple years ago.  It went to the Amish for 450.  I can't imagine what it's like now.  Every Amish auction I've been to the tools are in horrific condition.
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Offline Ken W.

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Re: Crescent Wrench Display
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2016, 07:58:21 PM »
I see $ 250.00 tops in wrenches. Here in Buffalo I could fill that board pretty quick except for the double end 's. The board itself ??
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Offline mvwcnews

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Re: Crescent Wrench Display
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2016, 11:39:08 PM »
Jim Keats had one of these boards at the spring MVWC meeting -- the hooks had all been removed & the holes filled, so he laid out the matching wrenches on the table in front of it.  (All the wrenches were the "right" ones from the 1920s.)  He also had a DIAMOND CALK HORSESHOE CO. board from ca. 1925 with all the slots filled with correct wrenches.  His display & Dan Gaier's display of George C. Taft related wrenches were a tie vote for "best of show" & Jim Keats won the coin toss.
I'm currently working spring meet  photos up for the mvwcnews FLICKR account (www.flickr.com/photos/mvwcnews ) The photo of Keats'  DIAMOND  board is there already, the photo of the Crescent Board has a bad camera flash glare in the middle.
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