Antique Sheet Metal Tools?
Posted by Paul Woodhouse at October 22nd, 2007
Three or so weeks ago I was contacted by a lady who’d inherited her grandfather’s entire set of sheet metal tools and has had them in her garage since he passed away 30 years ago. She’s not only wondering what’s what, but would also like to determine how much, if anything, they’re worth. She could very well be prepared to donate all or part of the collection to a museum if somebody was interested.
I’ve uploaded all the tool pictures to a flickr account and there’s 70 pictures (by my bad mathematic reckoning) of all manner of old school sheet metal tools including snips, pliers, calipers, saws, drills, tapes, set squares and a host of other bits and bobs - in fact, you can check the entire sheet metal tool collection out here.
If anybody knows exactly which certain tools are which and/or what they may be worth, please feel free to leave a comment under any of the corresponding photos.
Now I’m not on any kind of cut and nor are we necessarily trying to sell them off. We’d just like to get as much information on the collection as possible.
I also have the lady’s email address for anybody who’d like to get in touch with her personally.
Thanks.
unfortunately with technology very few sheet metal workers know how to use these tools. my dad was a tinner and tools like this are all in my attic. very nostalgic. i was looking for some trammel points but did not see them. if there is interest in selling, i would be interested in offering a bid
thanks.