This is the week of the Madison-Bouckville NY antiques show.  While 
not as big as Brimfield it is a pretty good sized one.  Vendors start 
rolling into town on Sunday and the show runs until the following 
Sunday.  Unlike Brimfield, there is only one field that is only open 
on the last weekend, with the rest going all week.  Vendors come and 
go and it's a lot more relaxed than Brimfield.  A lot of the vendors 
are local and at least for the first few days, there is always fresh 
goods to be had.  I got up there on Tuesday and stayed until 
Wednesday.  There aren't too many places in the immediate area, but 
it wasn't a bad ride up to where I stayed.  I haven't been there in 
three years so I was looking forward to see just how things were.

Tuesday the weather wasn't bad, little humid but with a decent 
breeze.  Wednesday was cloudy and there were the occasional drops of 
rain, but considering that a nasty storm blew through on Tuesday 
night (nothing like tornado warnings to get the blood moving) it 
could have been worse.  These are some pics from Wednesday

http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/mb201201.jpg
http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/mb201202.jpg
http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/mb201203.jpg

As for stuff, well there is a lot of it.  There are a number of tool 
dealers there but the bargains are found the hard way.  As to be 
expected, prices were all over the map, although for some reason, 
just about every molding plane I saw at the non-tool deals was priced 
at $22.00.  Kinda of a weird number but you will have 
this.  Wednesday there was one guy there with a truck load of 
blacksmthing and tinsmithing tools that he must have thought were 
made of gold.  He had a few of the planishing and turning hammers in 
the 2 to 3 lb range that I usually get $60 to $70 for in good shape, 
but his price had a 1 in front of those numbers.  I did see a really 
neat solid brass wooden handled handvise with steel faces but the guy 
had it bundled in a display box with a bunch of other stuff and 
didn't want to sell it separately.  There was the same thing with a 
number of old gun makers tools that another seller had mounted on a 
piece of wood shaped as a gun stock.

One interesting piece I did see was this tool box and the dealer let 
me take a picture

http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/mb201204.jpg

or here for the larger picture.

http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/mb201204l.jpg

The box has a lot of bone and/or ivory details.  Most of the tools 
are salts and were just there as filler but the bow saw was really 
nice and the smoother plane at the lower right has a bone knob as 
well.  I don't know what the ring thing is on the left, this was 
pretty much at the end of the run on Wed and I was kind of toasted by 
then.  Price tag, $1750, although that isn't all that bad for a 
nicely made toolbox like that.

Anyways, I did reasonably well buying.  A piece or two here and there 
but it added up to a decent pile.  A lot of it needs work but at 
least it was something.   I have had much worse days there.

P Copeland plow plane, missing a couple of screws but then who isn't 
these days, Stanley 43 sawset in the box, signed and dated 1848 hand 
forged food chopper, Stanley Rule & Level No 42 ships carpenters 
bevel,  pair of leather pinkers, early pad saw in need of a cleaning 
and a blade, spoke shave ditto on the cleaning, Sampson 1/4 Inch 
firmer chisel, and an R Murphy clam knife.
http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/mb2012a.jpg

Complex molding plane, Millers Falls scraper, Goodell-Pratt push 
screwdriver, another spokeshave, handvise, small bench dog, Stanley 
42X that needs a trip to the Make-It-Pretty (tm ORHG), wooden miter 
plane that needs a little of that and this, and an R Harron NY 
compass adjustable sash plane that needs blades.
http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/mb2012b.jpg

Panel marking gauge with either a bone or ivory head that needs a 
shoe under the screw, two more handvises, the wooden handled one 
looks to be pretty early, a brace bit which I believe to be a button 
makers bit, mortising gauge that still has some point to it, another 
complex molder, Spofford 8" brace, a rare Abel Streeter patented 
brace with the 1857 and 1858 patent date, and a hand forged grafting froe.
http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/mb2012c.jpg

Made In USA 3/8" paring chisel, saw spyder, Stearns hollow auger, a 
natural 2 sided razor stone, skew carving chisel, button head stone 
mason dressing chisel, small compass round plane, a very early 
Stanley 9 1/2 that needs to be unpainted and cleaned, and an 
archimedian jewelers drill.
http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/mb2012d.jpg

Last is a pair of Colt No 3 clamps that I forgot to get pics of out 
in the truck.
http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/mb2012e.jpg

Now it's the fun part...paying for the trip!

Tony (sore of foot and light of cash but you will have this)

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