Hight Union square

[Branson]

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.

[scottg]

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

[rusty]

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....

[Branson]

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.

[rusty]

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)

[mikeswrenches]

I'd be willing to sell mine for $100.  Anytime someone thinks they can't live with-out it.

Mike

[Branson]

Drat!  Not in the later copy I have close to hand.  Do I have an older copy somewhere...?  I think, maybe...

[jimwrench]

Thought it odd that William Radford edited the book and the squares were for sale from (The Radford Architectural co) for $1.25