I enjoy shopping at at auctions. I collect antique axes, hatchets, cleavers and artifacts. Diane collects antique spinning wheels, looms and related items. The auctions I buy at mostly sell the items I collect in lots with other items, often not even remotely related. I can typically buy the same brand and condition axe, in a lot with unrelated items, for a fraction of the price if sold alone. I thus end up with a bunch of stuff, mostly not junk, that I don't collect or need.

I have a great hammer collection now, because most axe heads, hatchet heads and hatchets sell with hammers. Sometimes I get 3 or 4 hammers for every hatchet I actually wanted to buy. I'm thinking of putting together and organized collection of incidental hammers.

Axes usually get lumped together with garden tools, like shovels, pick axes, railroad and mining tools.

What do those of you who buy at auctions do with the random, non-junk, that comes with the items you actually want?

Here's some of today's bycatch.






Keith

Chrissy here collect antique furniture. You got some nice pieces there

Thanks. Very awesome looking, antique wood furniture, sells for very little here, if it sells at all, if the pieces are very large. Small antique pieces sell well here. I think people must not have the space for the beautiful large pieces.

I got this tool box today too. They just had it on the edge of the picture with the blacksmith or farrier nippers, I did want. I could not tell what it was and thought it was wood. It will be useful for me.



Here's the nippers.



I mostly just clean and oil up the incidentals and put them away. I'm thinking about covering two walls in my garage with old tools. I think it would be neat, if it doesn't get to dusty.

Keith

Very Nice finds Keith

The wall idea is a good one.

I see some sheep shears ...

Yes, when I first squeezed the.shears, dust and bits of wool flew out. They must no.have believed in cleaning their tools before they put them away. They did have a lot of grease on them, which may have been lanolin.

What I actually bought the lots for was axes, hatchets, Stanley steel splitting wedges, a cant hook, a Native American horse hoof pestle and the nippers.

Here's an axe head I wanted.




Keith

I would think a lot of the unwanted items you have would be good sellers, did you ever think about sell those items on the "Shed" or eBay?

Here's the horse hoof pestle I bought. It was in a mixed lot and described as a grinding stone. No mention of Indian or Native American was made. I like when auctions poorly describe things I want. I once bought a "rock collection" online, that was almost all Native American lifhic tools.





Keith

I've been watching videos on selling on EBay and some other platforms. It looks like there's a lot of hassles involved and a good chance of getting ripped off by buyers. I may try it anyways.

Keith

These 2 axes are why I went to the auction. One is a Fulton Clipper and the other a Lakeside. Both are massive and heavy for single bits.




I usually buy hatchets and wedges, even if they are common, if I'm going to the auction anyway.




Keith

very nice

I bought at an auction last week, that had an old board with probably close to 20 different types of barbwire on it, in horizontal pieces. Some were really cool and could hurt you really badly if you ran into or fell on them.

Keith

I buy a lot at auctions too. What I do with the tools and miscellaneous that I don't want is donate them to our American Legion for the the auxiliary's rummage sale.

I have one of those Stanley wedges I also have an old hammer head like they used for circus tents. It’s big old round sledgehammer type head.

I have a lot of Solid Brass Pipe wrenches like that first picture. They were required in Gassy Mines back in the twenties.

Some fine looking items From yesteryear Most are in nice condition .And many of them have done their share of work AND some would have some good stores to tell Keep buying and get them out so others can see them also I do some metal detecting. When I find something that is interesting I clean it up and display it for others to see .