Carpenters toolbox

[john k]

There I was, on vacation, with a flashlight, in the lower level of a big antique shop.   Was looking thru a big glass cabinet at some really nice and really expensive tools.  On the floor behind it were some tool boxes.   What the others were don't even come to mind after I pulled this one out.  This is a wooden box, covered in tin, dating to the early 1950s or before, my guess.  It tapes 13inches x 10.5inches x 32inches.    When the lid is lifted, there is the smell of fresh cut pine.  I don't believe it's ever held a tool.   No names, paint, grease, oil, stains, splatter, rips, tears, gouges, unbelieveable.   I have a couple of more like this, but they show all the wear of being tossed in the back of a truck for 35 years, and banged up the stairs to numerable jobs.  The little wood piece inside the lid holds two hand saws.  Out in the daylight it appears  the brown enamel is actually fine wood grained, like they did the car dashboards in the 1930s.  I have to find  a safe place to keep this.  Anyone else have one?

[OilyRascal]

absolutely beautiful

[Papaw]

Shure is purdy!

[Neals]

I picked up my first last evening at an auction. Looks home made and sure not a pretty as yours.

[gibsontool]

Yours sure looks a lot better than the one I have.

[BruceS]

It's amazing what you can pick up in antique stores when they don't know what they have.    I picked up a very vintage 14" pristine backsaw for $5,  probably worth about $ 80.  It too was tucked away in a dark basement corner.    I was so giddy I could hardly contain myself,  but was able to compose myself enough not to tip the dealer off to his goof and will go back for more treasures.   If he was happy with the price he marked, that's all that matters but I was ecstatic. 

[sgb45504]

That is amazing. 

I picked up my first old (1920s) carpenter toolbox last weekend.  It is a bit rough but still functional.   

Love to find one like that!

[scottg]

Train boxes!
  Trains were everything once upon a time. Thousands carried their tools to work and back on the train everyday.  These long but narrow boxes were just made to thread your way through crowds, and get down the narrow aisle of the train cars without banging everything in sight.

That wooden one is brilliant!! You never see them so pretty.
I have one almost like the middle one. Composition covered and hardware galore. Mine is nearly NOS. Nobody wanted it on Ebay one day and the seller grossly underestimated the postage. 
  yours Scott