When I sent the pictures this morning I meant to ask what anyone knew about yjhe
#4 size smoother. It is marked No. 4, and made in USA, but no maker's mark. The
cap iron has 4 square indentations which are painted red. Who made that? I
managed to clean up some of the tools yesterday. The plumb bobs had turned
black, but are now bright.

In another picture there is a mess of long auger bits measuring 18" in lemngth.
The strange part, to me at least, is that all of them are either 11 or 13. There
must be a reason why we find so many of these, and so few of other sizes. There
was also one 3/4" auger bit which is a full 24" long. I don't see many of those.

There were 3 different sizes of adjustable wrenches, all good american brands.
There were two brass plumb bobs, one 12 ounces, the other 24 ounces. Both are
excellent, and the smaller one is marked K&E. The larger is unmarked, but is
obviously an excellent tool. There is a pile of blades for different planes, one
a heavy laminated blade. There is a 130A, there are 3 nice block planes, there
is a Starrett marking gauge, and a Starrett 12" cast iron level, which is VERY
nice. AND there are 2 bronze shaves, one of which appears to be for planing the
sides of sliding dovetails, and the other bronze shave appears to want to slide
in a groove with a flat bottom. Then there is the orange painted vise grip. I
have no clue why it is orange. Oh, and the long auger bits came in a PLUMB tool
box which will clean up to be useable. Not a bad haul for
FREE!!!------------------------------------------------------------------------