Richard Blough Collection Auction

[mvwcnews]

Focus is on IHC; other wrenches, etc.  At Baxter Auction Gallery, Indianapolis with preview on Nov. 22nd and sale Nov. 23rd  ( http://www.baxterauction.com/2013/November23/tools.asp ).  Lots of pictures on the auctioneer's web site.

[HeelSpur]

Some very nice tools there, that's the first buffalo wrench I've seen with swastika's on it.

[jimwrench]

 Probably a Buffum if it has a swastika. Lot of nice wrenchs but a little too much paint for my taste.

[scottg]

I see a lot of tools I would like to have, thats for sure.
  There a Wizard ratchet, with stripes, in the pile. A 6" Trimo perfect handle monkey wrench, in nearly new condition. Some pliers I have never seen. Lots of stuff.

   I figure the painted tools were all crusty nasty fugly when he met them, and he was just doing the best he could. 

  People always want to think someone refinished a perfect mint 18th century Philadelphia Chippendale highboy, and now the value is ruined. 
But the truth is, nobody strips down a perfectly good piece.  Why would they?

  Beat, damaged, broken ugly things don't have much value, whatever anyone tells you. I suspect his painted tools will still fetch more in the market than they would have, at the bottom of a rusty bucket of pit filled schmutz.
      yours Scott
       

[mvwcnews]

The painted wrenches reflect how quickly tastes change.  When dad & the others started the MVWC in 1981 many were painting implement wrenches in "company colors."  Paint kept the wrenches from rusting & easier to keep clean.  It was only later that people got suspicious and now collectors  are stripping the paint & using "treatment" to get a "patina" look.   Dad used clear spray laquer on his implement wrenches to stave off rust  & now that laquer has turned a jaundiced looking flaky yellow  (I see wrenches that were from dad's collection now & then as subsequent owner's collections come to auction.)
I wonder how metal coated with "Renaissance Wax" will look in 30 years.

[johnsironsanctuary]

Weren't implement wrenches mostly dip painted when they were new?  Mostly satin black, but didn't IHC paint everything red?