Great Planes Trading Company

19th Annual Humboldt Iowa Antique Tool Auction
May 4, 2024, 9:30 AM
Humboldt Fairgronds Events Center Building
311 6th Avenue North
Humboldt IA 50548

Our 19 Annual Humboldt Iowa Antique Tool Auction is less that two weeks away. We have about 700 lots of the very best tool we have found in the past year selected for this auction.

This Auction will feature rare & scarce Stanley planes; two fine Stanley 55 combination plows, one IOB, Sargent, Keen Kutter and other branded tools as well as 150 plus wooden molding and plow planes; boxwood rules; brass and iron plumb bobs; slide rules; patented adjustable wrenches; implement or farm wrenches; numerous back and hand saws; drawknives; spokeshaves; Starrett, Brown & Sharpe and Lufkin machinist tools; Keen Kutter squares, planes, braces, hammers and other Keen Kutter, Simmons Hardware and Blue Grass Tools.

WOODEN PLANES: Pair L&R Leon Robbins panel planes; more than 150 wooden molding planes; several wooden plow planes, bench planes….

IRON PLANES:: Stanley 9 cabinet makers block plane; 3 IOB; 10; 10 1/2; 21, 39 1/4-inch; 39 1-inch; 40; 45; 46; late 55 IOB; 71 router; 85 scraper; 87 scraper; 98 & 99 side rabbets IOB; 148; RARE 164; SCARCE 340 Type 1 furring; fine LIE-NIELSEN No. 041 IOB & No. 042 IOB & unknown-make shoulder; fine Record No. 073; Sargent 1067 match, Keen Kutter bench, block & specialty planes….

RULES & PLUMB BOBS: Scarce J. RABONE & SONS 48-INCH 4-FOLD boxwood & brass wantage rod; LUFKIN NO. 42 ships bevel; RABONE No. 1167 "blind man's" 3-foot, 4-fold; several more; BRIDGE TOOL WORKS PB-9 brass plumb bob IOB; Stanley brass bob with reel….

SAWS: Unusual 6-inch HENRY DISSTON & Sons 6-inch steel back saw; HARVEY PEACE VULCAN SAW WORKS 6-inch back saw; Fine HENRY Disston 7 1/2-inch patternmakers saw; Early 14-inch TILLOTSON German Steel back saw with split-nuts; many more back, hand and table saws. This auction has the best collection of saws we have ever sold.

LEVELS: RARE Davis Patent No. 1 Machinists' 7-inch Iron (Inclinometer) Level in original box with intact label made by the M.W. ROBINSON CO. New York, N.Y., fine overall; Stratton Bros. 10-in. ; H.H. POOL 30-in.; Stanley No. 31 3-inch; STANLEY 12-inch NO. 1193 brass-bound mahogany; Disston & Sons 12-inch No. 65 brass-bound mahogany and several more. Levels from two of the biggest collections of levels we have sold are included in this sale.

BORING TOOS: Fine William Marples ULTIMATUM ebony-stuffed brass bit brace with no ivory ring; Eight cutters for a Stanley No. 77 dowel turning machine IOB…

MISC. TOOLS: Rare brass miner's plummet or lamp gimbaled with chain; Stanley No. 386 jointer gauge; slicks; drawknives; spokeshaves incl. Stanley No. 81 & 84 razor shaves; two large cabinetmakers tool chests; Starrett, Lufkin & B&S machinist tools; patented adjustable and implement/farm wrenches; six near new SORBY paring chisels; WITHERBY 3-in. slick; 5 HENRY TAYLOR cranked chisels; 5 Robert Sorby sash mortise chisels; KEEN KUTTER wrenches, hand forged and other hammers and hatchets, screwdrivers and other tools, Gurley surveyors transit with legs; David White builders level IOB; rope maker; seed plates, brass grain probes, farm seed signs, and much more from a large Monmouth Illinois collection…

KITCHEN & SEWING: Cast iron cookware; apple peelers; sewing and other scissors; mini sewing machine, and much more.

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