Antique & Collectible Tools
We can help you sell your Antique
& Collectible Tools!!
Background
We Buy, sell, and trade or deal in all manner of antique and vintage tools from a number of
trades. Antique woodworking planes and woodworking tools are
a major focus of our antique sales
pages
at our antique sales website
www.Patented-Antiques.com.
I am currently helping the heirs sell tools from a collection
that numbered over 15,000 tools when the owner died in addition to other
tools I am selling on consignment for other sellers. Please take a
look if you are either interested in buying old tools, or looking to
sell ones you have.
Old tools from all
woodworking trades such as carpentry, cabinetmaking, shipbuilding, pattern
makers, and others are of special interest. Vintage machinist tools
such as squares, surface gages, calipers and dividers by makers such as Starrett, D. B. & S, Darling, Brown and
Sharpe, Lufkin, Sawyer, Stevens, and many others can be of interest.
If you have quality
vintage tools you want to sell contact me at
LCM@AntiqBuyer.com
and we can work out a deal.
Condition
Early or vintage tools in super condition
are of special interest. NOS antique tools in their original boxes
or packaging, and great condition tools from a variety of makers and
trades are always in demand for today's collectors and users.
Condition is the single most important
aspect in determining 
the value or desirability of antique tools in
today's market.
This statement holds true for most other antiques as well. As an
example, a rare woodworking plane or tool
that is in excellent condition might be
worth $500. That same tool with one simple crack
or chip in the cast iron body might not bring 1/10th of that 500 at
auction or on the open
market.
Not broken, but with deep pitting or other major condition problems, that same
$500 tool might fetch $100. The same tool in mint condition and in the original box could be worth 2 or 3 times or more than the original $500 fi
gure.
It is all in the details
Most new sellers of antique tools do not
understand the concept of how important condition is to the value.
They ignore it or are looking at the object through rose-colored
glasses.
It does not help to hear an old looks "great for it age", the catch all phrase
most sellers on eBay use to peddle substandard wares.
NOS (New Old
Stock) and vintage tools in their original boxes that
were made by a number of makers including Stanley, Ohio
Tool, Sargent, Simmons Hardware or Keen Kutter, Winchester, and
more are of particular interest, and in general have an enhanced value in the antique tool marketplace.
We are always interested in hearing about them.
Levels
Anther example of antique and vintage tools whose values can range from very
little to thousands are levels.
During
the heyday of
American inventiveness
and ingenuity, and before China became the world's manufacturer,
Americans designed, patented, and produced some of the finest levels
known.
The best known large companies were Stanley Rule & Level Co. Stratton, Davis Tool
and Level Co, Jennings and others. But there were many rare and unusual levels produced by
small obscure makers that are actively sought. The most popular
and desirable
type of level are known as incli
nometer
levels. These leveling devices typically have dials or pendulums to determine the
slope or pitch rather than the typical liquid filled vial seen in most levels.
Some used small suspended
plumb bobs or liquid as the indicator. Many were odd-ball designs,
but others like the Rufus Porter example were works of art and are now very desirable
and valuable as collectibles.
Please click the other tool related pages in the left column for more
specific info on different types of collectible tools we seek and deal
in.
Please
contact me at
LCM@AntiqBuyer.com
if you have tools similar to those pictured here that are
for sale.
Select Antique Tools
Previously Sold
*****Click The Links
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Elliot 4-Fold 3-Foot Ivory Rule
Davis Level & Tool Inclinometer Level
The above antique tools are an example of the
caliber, condition and quality of antique tools that I typically deal in.
If you have quality antique tools or
vintage planes similar to those that you see
on this page that you want to sell, please contact us at
LCM@AntiqBuyer.com providing me with as many details as possible.
To see many other examples of antique
or vintage tools
that I currently have for sale please go to our sister site
at
www.Patented-Antiques.com
and
visit the numerous antique tool sale pages you will find there.
Thanks
