I thought I found a treasure trove

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I tore up the tile floor in my kitchen and hallway yesterday. My father helped. He has a contractor friend that will take the busted tile to use as fill so we loaded up the truck and headed to the contractor's shop. Directly in front of the shop is an old hardware store long since closed. All the shelves were still stocked. My father knows the man who used to run the hardware store and assumed he had passed on. My father asked the contractor about the man only to be told he was still alive. He was in fact sitting on the back porch eating a tomato he had just picked from the garden. :)

The contractor told us if there was anything we were looking for, the hardware store owner would sell it to us cheap. I had visions of old Schrade and Case displays filled with treasure waiting for me to claim. The words "I'll take them all" danced through my head. :D

Sadly...the only knives to be found were 4 or 5 sun bleached Imperial barlows.

Darn it.... :)
 
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jason you were in the right place just had the wrong knives. dennis 20 years back walt garrison a famous cowboy football player whom whittles for a hobby found an old closed hardware in texas & there was a whole display of strawberry robesons. offered to pay the owner a preminum but the ole timer only wanted the retail price from 50s or 60s .dennis. incidentally walt mentioned that the robesons were the best edge holders.
 
DennisStrickland said:
jason you were in the right place just had the wrong knives. dennis 20 years back walt garrison a famous cowboy football player whom whittles for a hobby found an old closed hardware in texas & there was a whole display of strawberry robesons. offered to pay the owner a preminum but the ole timer only wanted the retail price from 50s or 60s .dennis. incidentally walt mentioned that the robesons were the best edge holders.
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I probably would have passed out if I had seen a display of Robesons. :)
 
morrowj_98 said:
I tore up the tire floor in my kitchen and hallway yesterday. My father helped. He has a contractor friend that will take the busted tile to use as fill so we loaded up the truck and headed to the contractor's shop. Directly in front of the shop is an old hardware store long since closed. All the shelves were still stocked. My father knows the man who used to run the hardware store and assumed he had passed on. My father asked the contractor about the man only to be told he was still alive. He was in fact sitting on the back porch eating a tomato he had just picked from the garden. :)

The contractor told us if there was anything we were looking for, the hardware store owner would sell it to us cheap. I had visions of old Schrade and Case displays filled with treasure waiting for me to claim. The words "I'll take them all" danced through my head. :D

Sadly...the only knives to be found were 4 or 5 sun bleached Imperial barlows.

Darn it.... :)
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Oh shute Jason,this is funny,lmao...

We do this alot,I have a friend who did a reno in Maine & found 17K in cash
Another,here on the North Fork found a gorgeous little Smith & Wesson (I think) revolver

I get mice & rat turds,lol
-Vince
 
Hi,

Those kinds of places used to be more common to run across. But not anymore. Still, a couple of sun bleached Imperials is pretty good. I hope you took them home!

Dale
 
I drive a lot for work , a lot of small towns in not too common areas. I always stop by those 'old time' looking hardware stores to see what awesome finds there are. You know there just has to be a classic nobody but you would recognize sitting in that wood and glass rack ( or you tell yourself that ) so I stop and go in only to find a plastic bucket full of knock off's for a buck and a case full of Ruko's... :(


Tostig


ps one day maybe it will pay off ! :D Morrowj I woulda bought those Barlows were they at a nice enough price. The earlier ones before Imperial got janky were not to bad IMO.
 
Exciting!

But maybe you should just dig up your kitchen floor a bit more...who knows, perhaps your house is sited on an old knife foundry:D :thumbup:
 
at first I thought maybe you were going to say you found a treasure buried in your house.

willgoy said:
Exciting!

But maybe you should just dig up your kitchen floor a bit more...who knows, perhaps your house is sited on an old knife foundry:D :thumbup:
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lol...that would be quite a story
 
Dang, that's too bad. Wonder if there is any other 'treasure' in there not knife related?
 
morrowj_98 said:
Sadly...the only knives to be found were 4 or 5 sun bleached Imperial barlows.

Darn it.... :)
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That sounds like dreams I have had. A promise of heavenly slipjoints, only to not see them or be able to get to them before the dream ends. :( :D
 
I was in a small town in Kansas about a year ago and bought a USA made Old Timer out of a display. I don't know the number but it is a single blade about the size of a peanut. That has been my only good find.
 
The "Ghost Stores" may be fantastic places to shop. I remember many years ago driving to Paducah, KY (named for chief Paduk. His image was incorporated into the city Police logo). There was an old dept. store, never emptied, never renovated for many years. Story was the owner died and the widow was nuts and kept it locked up. I swear we went to this place and peered in the dusty plate glass window and this very elderly lady came up to the window and hollered at us as a BIG german shephard dog was trying to get out to eat us. There were old suits and hats,, etc, in the window display. Geeze, I think we must have been drunk when we got there. We ate in a dive down by the river where they were feeding the winos for $.75 for a big bowl of white bean and sweet pickle relish. To pee you had to go through the kitchen and up stairs past he bushel baskets of potatoes, etc. Real Homey. The beer was in a refigerator out on the floor in the dining area. I bought a dress green army jacket at a junk store and got hollered at by a Army Officer for wearing it on campus.
 
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Shore08 said:
Dang, that's too bad. Wonder if there is any other 'treasure' in there not knife related?
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I have no doubt there is. I'll probably go back at some point when I have more time. I might wait until it is a little cooler as well. It was like an oven inside...brutally hot.
 
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