There is a Stanley No. 145!
The “combination plane” was developed to create a woodworking tool that would perform multiple functions and free a workman from having to own a large number of individual planes. Over a 50-year time span...
Category: Plow Planes
Colonial Homestead: A Midwest Tool Mecca
In almost every woodworking class I teach in Covington, Ky., there’s at least one student who has driven through Ohio to get there who has stopped at Colonial Homestead in Millersburg. Every one of...
Brown’s 51st International Antique Tool Auction
Brown’s 51st International Antique Tool Auction was held on October 28th, 2017, at the Radisson Hotel in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. There was active bidding in the room as well as from absentee bidders. The...
Brown’s 49th International Antique Tool Auction
October 29th, 2016, Radisson Hotel, Camp Hill, PA By: John G Wells Prices realized in this article include a 13% buyer’s premium. A 3% discount is available for cash or a good check. Prices...
The New Rules for Ivory Containing Tools-Revisited
On October 21st, 2014, I posted a blog on this website about the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s Order 210 regarding the importation, exportation and sale of ivory in the U. S. (You...
The Brown 48th International Antique Tool Auction, by John G. Wells
The 48th Brown Tool Auction was held at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania on April 2, 2016. Prices realized in this article include a 13% buyer’s premium. A 3% discount was available...
The Brown 47th International Antique Tool Auction by John G. Wells
By John G. Wells Brown 47th International Antique Tool Auction was held October 30-31st 2015, at Camp Hill, PA Prices realized in this article include a 13% buyer’s premium. A 3% discount was available...
The 46th Brown International Antique Tool Auction by John Wells
Held on Saturday, March 28th, 2015, this was the second Brown International Antique Tool auction that was managed and put on by its new owner Jim Gehring. Jim and his very able crew are...
The 45th Brown International Antique Tool Auction by John G. Wells
This was the first Brown International Antique Tool Auction that was managed and put on by Jim Gehring, the new owner of Brown Auction Services. Although Clarence Blanchard and Mike Jenkins lent a helping...