Jim Koepke
02-09-2011, 11:29 PM
My wife has been wanting to go to the beach for a while. The weather reports made the call of today being pretty good, so we scheduled it for today. We also did a little antique store looking.
I don't know why I still look at saws, but there I was looking. One shop had an old Marples dovetail saw for $40. It was there about 6 months ago. It has split nuts and a brass back. The blade is a little pitted. As we left, I just had to ask. Fortunately the guy who has the saw in there seldom moves on the prices he sets.
We stopped at another store that wasn't so much antiques as it was used things.
Some interesting things and there was a saw laying in the back without a price tag.
182092
It was missing one of the three saw nuts. The medallion didn't really make me get too excited about a "Warranted Superior" eagle mark.
My thinking was that at least asking how much wouldn't hurt. While looking quizzically at the a lady asked me if she could help me with something. I asked about the saw. She said, "let me ask the saw guy." She came back with $5. I mentioned that I only had a little cash and would she take plastic? She consulted with another woman and decided that the minimum for plastic was $5. I said I had to consult with SWMBO and see if she was going to purchase anything.
Well, she did find something she wanted for $40. So, I asked if they could drop the price on what my wife wanted. Once more she consulted with the others and came back that if we bought the item my wife wanted they would throw in the saw.
Heck, it was free, how could I refuse that?
So we did the deal. After we drove away, I explained to my wife why I wanted the saw. It was the nuts on the other side of the saw that got my attention.
182093
The patent date is a bit beat up, but it looks to be Dec. 21, 1869.
jtk
I don't know why I still look at saws, but there I was looking. One shop had an old Marples dovetail saw for $40. It was there about 6 months ago. It has split nuts and a brass back. The blade is a little pitted. As we left, I just had to ask. Fortunately the guy who has the saw in there seldom moves on the prices he sets.
We stopped at another store that wasn't so much antiques as it was used things.
Some interesting things and there was a saw laying in the back without a price tag.
182092
It was missing one of the three saw nuts. The medallion didn't really make me get too excited about a "Warranted Superior" eagle mark.
My thinking was that at least asking how much wouldn't hurt. While looking quizzically at the a lady asked me if she could help me with something. I asked about the saw. She said, "let me ask the saw guy." She came back with $5. I mentioned that I only had a little cash and would she take plastic? She consulted with another woman and decided that the minimum for plastic was $5. I said I had to consult with SWMBO and see if she was going to purchase anything.
Well, she did find something she wanted for $40. So, I asked if they could drop the price on what my wife wanted. Once more she consulted with the others and came back that if we bought the item my wife wanted they would throw in the saw.
Heck, it was free, how could I refuse that?
So we did the deal. After we drove away, I explained to my wife why I wanted the saw. It was the nuts on the other side of the saw that got my attention.
182093
The patent date is a bit beat up, but it looks to be Dec. 21, 1869.
jtk