Memorial Day Flea Market Finds

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I can't find the plain "Flea Market Finds" thread, so...
An old framing square with a scale I've never seen before, an Imperial BSA camp knife, a Hammer Brand equal-end jack, and a Grohman Pictou-NS [sic]("stainless" over kissing cranes logo on the other side).
$2 each except for the $1 Grohmann. A near-record for lint in the Hammer. I'll have to grind off the corner of the Grohmann's blade stump.

 

[Fodderwing]

I can't find the plain "Flea Market Finds" thread, so...
An old framing square with a scale I've never seen before, an Imperial BSA camp knife, a Hammer Brand equal-end jack, and a Grohman Pictou-NS [sic]("stainless" over kissing cranes logo on the other side).
$2 each except for the $1 Grohmann. A near-record for lint in the Hammer. I'll have to grind off the corner of the Grohmann's blade stump.

Thanks for posting these. I really enjoy seeing whats picked up at flea markets. I don't generally have much luck. Got lucky a while back but already posted them on the thread you mentioned. Anyway, I did pick up these two since then.

 

[brownshoe]

Yesterday I got a carbarundum stone, Ez-Lap diamond chef's hone with sheath, Gerber stockman with black delrin covers, brand new Queen Steel paring knife with pewter bolsters. Saw a few schrade switches and strangely not one Buck 110. Lusted after two vintage Richtig kitchen knives but didn't have the $150 each and condition was well used. Almost went home with a recondition Buck ranger, but the blade was a bit short. Got a nice sewing rocker for the front porch. Most I spent was $12 for the diamond hone. All in a big Memorial Day full town flea market in Brownville NE. Finished the day with a Margarita on the rocks and a Mexican house special, tamale, enchilada, chili reyenes, tostada and taco

 

[Itsasportsbar]

Greetings from the East Coast of Canada! Nice finds!

I live about an hour and a half drive from the Grohmann factory. Therefore I've collected a few.

Is it possible to show a picture of the pile side of the Grohmann with the Kissing Cranes logo? The combination sounds odd. Something I've never seen before. Interesting.

Thanks,

Ken K.

 

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Great hauls, you guys.

I have only one spear-point Barlow; a Kutmaster that was probably a second because it advertises a Kentucky electrican on one side and a Wisconsin electrician on the other.

I'll post a pic of the tang stamps on the Grohmann. The pen stump has the Kissing Cranes on it too.
I googled that mysterious "Pictou-NS": Pictou, Nova Scotia.

 

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[5K Qs]

I can't find the plain "Flea Market Finds" thread, so...
An old framing square with a scale I've never seen before, an Imperial BSA camp knife, a Hammer Brand equal-end jack, and a Grohman Pictou-NS [sic]("stainless" over kissing cranes logo on the other side).
$2 each except for the $1 Grohmann. A near-record for lint in the Hammer. I'll have to grind off the corner of the Grohmann's blade stump.

Fruitful market day yesterday! The square is what really caught my attention, though. I'm trying to figure out how it works. I assume it can be used to find the vertex angle at the corner of a regular polygon. The "top" arm says "HEXAGON 24-14"; can you figure out how you're supposed to get a 120 degree angle from the square with that info? Does the "24" come from that middle scale down the left arm and the 14 from a scale along the top? Is the next polygon listed "HEPTAGON 24-19"?

- GT

 

[AShearer]

I can't find the plain "Flea Market Finds" thread, so...
An old framing square with a scale I've never seen before, an Imperial BSA camp knife, a Hammer Brand equal-end jack, and a Grohman Pictou-NS [sic]("stainless" over kissing cranes logo on the other side).
$2 each except for the $1 Grohmann. A near-record for lint in the Hammer. I'll have to grind off the corner of the Grohmann's blade stump.

screened porch I wonder if that square was made in the early 1900's. Reason being, a lot of homes built in that period had complex polygonal turrets. Otherwise, I'm having trouble figuring out why a company would produce a scale like that?

 

[Itsasportsbar]

Thanks for the additional pictures Jer. An interesting combo.

I'll have to do some more research on Grohmann blades/providers.

Ken K.

 

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The same panel with the polygon tables has a patent date of 1901, so I think you're right, Alan.

GT, I think how this was used was by setting the tongue at the first number and the blade at the second, though I haven't tested that hypothesis. I'll take pictures of the rest of the table. I think it goes up to something like dodecagon.

Ken, it certainly seems weird to me to find kissing cranes on a Grohmann, and I'd certainly be interested to hear if you come up with an explanation.

 

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Here's a similar table from a Stanley pamphlet.

 

[Ernie1980]

Nice finds! I love old tools like that square almost as much as knives

 

[5K Qs]

Very cool! Thanks for the extra pics of your steel square and of the polygon table.

- GT

 

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And here are some more traditional blades from the heap on which I photographed the big traditional bladed implement. The green one says usm14/made in USA on the blade.

And that grubby Imperial scout flexes when sharpened. I like to think they made them thin so they'd be better slicers, but it would be funny if they made them thin to save material and make them a little cheaper.