Posted in quest on Oct 24th, 2007
Back in April, Aaron Posnik hosted the auction of Mohawk Furniture in Broadalbin, New York. Mohawk was a high end manufacturer of solid wood traditional furniture. I couldn’t find much history on this company, but I do remember them being in business some 40 years ago when I was a child living in the Hudson […]
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Posted in quest on Oct 10th, 2007
Over the summer here in New Jersey, we saw some of the highest prices ever for scrap metal. Cast Iron was bringing 10 cents a pound at a yard that was less than 5 miles from my house.
No. 1 copper was bringing $3.40, and die cast was bringin 67 cents. I took advantage of the prices and cleaned the bone yard out.
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Posted in quest on Oct 5th, 2007
Back in January, I was searching through eBay and found a listing for a Fay & Egan No. 186 ReSaw. I contacted the seller after the auction ended and asked if I could come by and see the machine. As it turned out the seller was brokering the deal for a log time friend who’s […]
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Posted in quest on Oct 4th, 2007
Barry: I think we should buy all those Peerless sanders
ok. Which one do you want?
Barry: I’ll buy the cheap ones, you take the rest
IRS recently hosted the liquidation auction of Eureka Manufacturing Company in Norton Ma. Eureka was a producer of wooden boxes, cases, chests, etc for silverware & jewelry. There were alot of really nice old machines in this sale, including a number of Peerless horizontal & vertical sanders.
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Posted in quest on Oct 3rd, 2007
You’re looking at the bottom of an inkwell. It says “Tannewitz”, “Grand Rapids”. In the center is the number 6.
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