Only a week late, but better than next year I guess. It sucks when you misplace your digital camera and you can't photograph your finds for the week. Shirley's Flea Market was full of vendors, but other than a few crumbs here and there, I was the only one selling tools of any quality. Rain kept me from setting up Thursday as I had planned, but Friday was kind to me as driving out there, I stopped at a couple sales and the first one on 12th st. was run by a couple of elderly gals and they thought a small box of SK 3/8" drive deep walls was worth $2....and. Several other SK and Snap On sockets and wrenches for .25 each. Spent $16 and really didn't want to re sell any of it. Getting there as they opened helped a bunch. Friday sales were off and on, but well worth setting up out there. Had several come back after sniffing around the grounds and realizing the obvious. One guy cleaned me out of all my V series DBE's.
Saturday, I got my wonderful wife to babysit the store while I went to the local Catholic Church auction to see what they had I couldn't live without. One of the parishioners that I'm friends with was there and I gave him $50 to get what he could. He only spent $29 of it, but the Dimalloy 4/6/8" set came from there for like $6, 3 virtually new Petersen Vise Grips for $11, a dirty but very functional Wright 3/8ths" socket set(not real old since it had the plastic case), semi beat up Craftsman tool box for $2, and one other item that went for like $10. Then headed for Hudson's estate sale (where I got a sneak peak at what was there earlier in the week)and couldn't believe that the "family" left virtually all the tools in the shop. I had offered to help the gal price the tools, butt when she went another route, I LIKED HER PRICING BETTER!!!! Picked up an old Snap On vintage metal 1/4" drive set with ratchet and most of the socekts(including a packing nut socket) for $2, The Bonney deep walls with the holes in the drive end have to be old, and I'm hoping that Bonneyman can tell me/us if that green metal box is original or not. Might be one socket missing. They were $2 also. I spent like $60 there, but some of that was on 4 old oil cans and some old license plates for a friend.
Got back to the flea market and the only thing that showed up worth buying was a couple of hobby vises; one from Columbian and the other from Wilton. Guy wanted $7 ea. and I didn't haggle. Both of them will clean up nicely. The Saturday sales came in spurts, but my last two customers, a pair of Hispanic gentlemen, spent like $`50 between them and were kicking themselves for not coming earlier, as I was packing up and trying to get back the the Hudson address to see what was left. That sale had a really old Kennedy 36" top chest that was going to half price for $35 at noon, and I told the gal I'd take that if it made it to noon. It didn't, so Se La Vie....
Top Row, Left to Right
Wright 3/8" Drive Socket set(plastic case, so not all that old)
SK 3/8" Deep wall set(the $2 one)
SK 45181 3/8" Speeder
2 Craftsman Pliers
2 DimAlly Pliers
Lakeside Alloy Pliers
McKaig/Hatch Pliers
Krauetter 40-5 Pliers
3 US Petersen Vise Grips
Whitaker Pliers
Middle Row:
Vintage Bonney 1/2"Drive deep walls LD-32 to LD-20($2)
Bonney 4092 Slide bar(missing its drive head)
Bonney 1/4" Dr. Ratchet V-702-K($1)
Bonney E-26 DOE and2612H flare nut wrench
DRIVE TOOLS:
CARbureTER T-109--51OR(very unique 3/8" drive tool)
Armstrong 14-622 Deep Wall Impact
Duro-Chromed1422 Deep Wall
Craftsman V series 1/2" Drive extension
5 Thorsen items for Oily
2 Armstrong items
3 Herbrand wrenches
SK Lectrolite DOE
Artisan feeler gauge/plug gap tool
MAC M-2x DOE
OTC 1418 pleg thread chaser
Wiazrd 10" adj and small screwdriver for ily
Armstrong S wrench 1483-B
2 Gripso pliers and a Pli-Wrench
BOTTOM ROW
Dunlap 8" pipe wrench
Micro adj. made in Germany(no nme)
Indestro 01851 drift punch
Ebonite stubby screwdriver
OTC 728 screw tarter
4 Lectrolite tappet wrenches
Snap On 1/4" Drive socket set(likely not complete) w/ Midget GM-70-M rat chet and a packing nut docket to boot.
1/2" Drive Snap On impact socket
small Armstrong Combo wrench
2 Masterfraft combos
Hughe KD 29mm combo
3 wrench Dimalloy set; 4", 6", %8"
Proto 706 and 708 adjustables
2 Proto Plumber's chisls
Plomb DOE's 3048 and3045
Proto 3034 DOE
Vintage Hastings Spark Plug gapper
