Had quite a good haul at the Huddersfield , a lovely day out after a week incarcerated in Manchester Children's Hospital and I found a great tool shop in Keighley that specialises in stuff for modellers and hobbyists.
I wasn't quite as tight as I usually am as I found a few bits I really wanted.
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10 inch blade beech and another so far unidentified wood for the stretcher bow saw, Ibbotson Ltd 1952 board arrow C/2206. Should clean up lovely with very little work. I'm chuffed to bits with this one as Ibbotsons are rather good £5 which isn't too painful.
Inside the above a really well made shape tracer £2
Curved surform blade for a handle I got a while back, I think I paid e full whack for it a £4 but its the first curved one I've seen , all the local places only have the flat ones.
3lb ball pein £3 , no visible makers mark yet but should clean up lovely, a bought handle would cost me more so I turned my nose up at a bunch of £1 heads on their own.
Small leather workers knife thing 50p , bought for the blade to make myself a little reaping knife for collecting soft rushes in a couple of weeks. Ill be remounting it and making a sheath. Marked "Thos Temporal Sheffield Diamond Edge". 3" cutting edge. Must be pre 1954 as that's when the company was wound up.
5" scissors 50p Rawlins Sheffield England, just needs a polish.
Next to it 6" scissors 50p Wostenholm Sheffield England IXL Chromium Plated 6in. Should clean up well.
Tin of drill bits £1 bought fr the tin really as its either a post war reuse of the tins used in Bren Gun spares kits or the prewar commercial item that was adopted for the Bren. Minus the stamping. Oh and I get a bunch of well made drill bits!
Top right old school 1980s I guess, B&D hand pump £4 pretty much brand new. Replaces a cr@p drill powered job I had for stuff like emptying blocked sinks or baths of citric acid solution that can't be lifted without th whole thing slopping about and ending down my shorts....
Some excellent new Japanese made wire cutters £2 , more like a scaled up pair of spruce cutters than anything else.
Brass mat h box candle stick 50p. Shiny, will mount a beeswax candle in it for next to the bed.
9" tailors board scissors, 50p "JP John Potter Sheffield" small broad arrow but oddly no date. Should be as good a new when I'm done. Must be pre 1940 could be late Victorian. The top blade is so shaped so it won't snag on layers of cloth folded over the top on the cutting out bench.
After pics to follow when I'm done.
ATB
Tom