We can help you sell Antique Patent Models, Salesman Samples and Models of Antique Farm
Equipment and related Farm Antiques!!
Salesman samples or patent models of
farm machinery or small models of other implements and tools used on the farm are of
special interest to us. They are currently very popular, demand is high and their value has
skyrocketed in the past few years. I have had and sold some of the very best,
and I will share with you some pictures and info about some of them.
Just above is a very detailed and well constructed
salesman sample / model of a Jones Field Mower (the name can be seen in
the cutout letters in the cast iron seat). I have seen other
versions without the cut-out seat, and the name and patent info on the
main frame. I have had this model's full size cast iron seat
before and
you often see examples of full-size mowers
gracefully parked in front of old time farm hay fields along the
highways and back roads of rural America. These full size impliments can be had rather
inexpensively if you have the room and means to move them. Most
date from just before to just after the turn of the century.
These
farm models / salesman samples on the otherhand seem to be worth somewhat more with almost all
examples selling in the 4 figure range, and a few reaching 5
figures. We would be happy to help you with yours if you have
one, please do contact us.
On the right is a very detailed model or salesmen sample of
what is called a Hay
Tedder. It exhibits a
degree of craftsmanship and detail rarely seen in today's world.
These devices were used to stir or fluff mown hay after mowing
as it was drying in the field and before it was baled. Today I think they cut it,
blow dry it, and bale it all in one operation and with one machine
in one operation. Times and methods change.
Models such as this were made to show the rural farmer the latest in
technology and were carried around by traveling salesmen or used as
storefront window displays in an attempt to persuade the farmer that he
needed an implement just like it. The detail and precision that is
exhibited in these different farming related patent models, farm machinery models or
salesman samples of farm machinery would have been sure to impress the
early country farmer when the traveling salesman pulled it out of its
case to show his prospective customer.
Door-to-door sales was the norm as most means of mass advertising did
not yet exist.
The device on the left is a salesman
sample or model of a Hay Fork from the late 1800's.
There is patent info engraved in stylistic font on the legs telling the important
details such as the date and the inventor's name. This is one of those
pieces that looks like a patent model, but because of the information that
is inscribed into the arms on
the actual piece, and
lack of papers, it is in reality a salesman sample or model for other
purposes rather than the actual model that was submitted to the US Patent Office
for a patent.
It
seems too small to have been very impressive for a salesman to be carrying
around to show to prospective customers, but the detail and construction
of this little hay fork model are very nice, and whatever the original intended
purpose, it is evident that the creator was proud of his invention / device, and
wanted the viewer to be impressed as well. This exact design of this
miniature hay fork can be
found full size, and the patent is real, so the idea was in production and it was utilized.
Sometimes you find things that you just
know are patent models either from experience, circumstance, or by the size
and construction details, just plain intuition, or ? but without a tag
or
other
documentation it is a near impossible thing to prove in most
cases.
I have been to auctions where tables full of tagless
models were offered. The simple fact is that these models get separated from
their information, as in the case of the device pictured here on the right.
Although it is very well constructed, and has the proper
details, size, look, and feel of a patent model I can't figure out what it
was made to represent or do. It looks to be some sort of a farm machine for
separating seed or something like that, other guesses were a sort of water
turbine. I know it is a
patent model, but could never prove it, even if I found the patent info. These
tag less models are fun and are saleable in this state,
but without proper documentation and the original patent tags the value is
minimal.
I have had and sold a number of models like you see
above, and are shown in the past sales archives on the right.
Such models
are desirable and interesting pieces that I would love to help you sell
if you have one or know where some are.
Click this link if you would like to see past sales results
for
Salesman Sample Farm
Machines. Past Sales Results for other types of Farm Related Antiques
are linked on the right under tools.
If you have similar antiques you would like to sell,
please contact us at
LCM@AntiqBuyer.com
with details.
Farm Tools / Wrenches & Other Patented Devices from the Farm
We Can Help You Sell Antique Farm Related Antiques!!
Rope Winders
We are also active dealers in other unusual antique patented and
mechanical devices used on the farm, in the
fields, and farmhouses of early rural America.
Antique and vintage farm related devices like rope winders / makers are
a good example. A patented manufactured version made of cast iron
& wood is shown on the left. There are all cast iron versions and
all wood primitive versions. They are 3 strand, 4 strand, 5
strand, and more versions that can be found. I have seen collections
with at least 50 different versions in them
Other example of rope winders as well as many other farm related antiques
we have sold over the past few years can be seen at the Past Sales Archives
whose links are on the right.
Click this link if you would like to see past sales results
for
Rope Winders /
Makers. Past Sales Results for other types of Antique farm
related tools
are linked on the right.
Hand Held Corn Shellers
I am also interested in antique hand held corn shellers
and can help you with them. They come in a myrid of
different
sizes shapes and forms. They are such a popular collectible that a
book has been published about them. The smallest of these are known as
popcorn shellers. One hard to find version is pictured on the
left. It is a A. H. Patch popcorn sheller This outfit made a number of other size
corn shellers as well.
Some unusual table-top or bench mounted corn
shellers are also good. We do not typically deal in large floor model corn
shellers because of the size and weight factors that are involved.
There are a few of these large early shellers that are very rare
like the corn sheller patented by Rufus
Porter a famous inventor / designer who also made a great inclinometer /
level.
Antique hand
held shellers like the one pictured on the right known
as the .50 Cent Sheller are a good example of the type we do deal in. The name
of this one coming from the
fact that is what it cost when
new. It is
from Ohio and dates from the late 1800's.
Hand held shellers come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and
some are hard to recognize. Occasionally people try and sell things like
fish scalers as corn shellers. Another that you see quite often is
part of a shoe shine kit.
Hand corn
shellers were generally used to separate seed corn from the cob that was used for
starting next years crop. It was a process where you saved the best kernells from an ear of corn as opposed to larger shellers
used for
feed corn where you just feed the whole ear into the opening and the
machine would strip all the kernels for feed. The earliest versions were first patented
and manufactured on the
East coast, and later as farming spread to the Midwest many were
introduced and patented from that region as well. They are such a
popular collectible that there are reproduction shellers being made and
offered for sale.
Of the larger table mounted varieties there are
several very common ones, like the
Black Hawk pictured on the left, and
the similar looking Red Devil. Shellers that look like this are
generally more common. Some of this style sheller had what are
known as knubers to knock of select kernels for feed, but they were
basically a feed and go sort of sheller.
Different larger shellers forms of interest would include shellers with
names like the Right Speedy or the Peerless, or ones that are much
smaller and aimed at popcorn size kernels. The red sheller to the
right is an example of a desirable form larger sheller. This style
sheller was used to make feed for the yard animals on small farms, and
made little distinction between the large and better kernels for
planting and the small stunted ones at the ends of the cob that were
generally used for feed.
We also can help you sell authentic
windmill weights, steam whistles, unusual adjustable
wrenches or
buggy wrenches, and
many other farm related antiques. We sell cast iron tractor seats with names cut out or cast
out in the
seat
like the Stoddard shown on the left.
We buy & sell a lot of other types of vintage and antique tools, stove pipe warmers,
pressing iron trivets, that have this same sort of feature with cutout letters in the
casting also.
Click this link if you would like to see past sales results
for
some of the hand held and table mount
Corn Shellers we
have handled.
If you have similar antiques you would like to sell,
please contact us at
LCM@AntiqBuyer.com
with details.
NOTE: I do not buy full size farm
implements, I simply do not have the room or means, and have little or no
information about them.
If you have farm related antiques described above to sell please
contact us. If you are looking to buy these types of antiques,
please visit our sister site
www.Patented-Antiques.com where we conduct our internet antique sales from.
Antique
Wrenches
Buggy - Patented - Mechanical
- Quick Adjusts - Cutout & More
We can help you sell unusual and patented antique wrenches that
date from the early to mid 1800's right up to about 1930 or so.
We
also deal in antique adjustable buggy wrenches or fixed buggy wrenches with names embossed
in them or with cutout letters.
We are interested in both early patented pipe or monkey wrenches that
have unusual quick adjust features from the same basic time period, the
mid 1800's to just after the turn of the century. We also buy and
sell small
vintage 4" and 6" adjustable bicycle wrenches that have unusual
patented features that are considered collectible. And finally
we are interested in any and all wrenches that have names
"cutout" like the International Harvester or Bradley's Wonder
cutout wrenches that we have pictured on this page.
If you have any wrenches that fit
these simple requirements, and you want to sell them, please contact us at
LCM@AntiqBuyer.com
with complete details including the size and any written
information that is on them and we will get back to
you ASAP
What we do not buy are broken up rusty old common
wrenches that do not fit any of the simple criteria we have
mentioned
above. And guess what, without a picture or a really good description,
we are probably not going
to be able
to tell you if are interested in your wrenches or not, so please give us as much
info as you can. We are going to
need to see it and know the condition that it is in to be able to decide how much it is worth. We like collectible
antique wrenches with features like the swivel head feature pictured here. There are a number
of variations on this theme. Up and down back and forth, and old
wrenches like this can come in sizes from 4" long to 20" or so.
We buy and
sell small bicycle wrenches that date from near the turn of the
century when the bicycle was first being introduced and promoted in
America. The selection of these interesting and well
made little gems is
mind boggling, and when compared to the stamped out piece of nothing that
they hand you today with your new Chinese bicycle, it makes one shake his head in
wonder.
The bicycle wrench above may look like the rest, but it is different
with the adjustment feature on the backside, and has the great feature of a
picture of a high wheel bicycle logo stamped into the head. Please send a picture or scan of any
nice or unusual antique wrenches that you want to sell. Some of these bicycle and other wrenches are worth no more than a few
dollars, while others are worth $200 or more.
Another
category of vintage wrenches that is of interest and that we are always buying are
commonly referred to as
quick adjusts.
These old wrenches come in all different sizes and configurations and
many are common, but others are very hard to come by. Most quick
adjust alligator style wrenches like the one to the left are not common.
This particular model is very late as far as wrenches go (post 1900) and
is from the West Coast. A similar model quick adjust alligator
wrench is named the
Shark.
We want to
help you sell your antique and collectible wrenches, but again,
we cannot help unless you provide me a decent picture, or at a minimum a
full description.
Antique
Buggy
wrenches are also of interest and a popular collectible with cross over
appeal.
These are usually recognizable buy the
square nut holder on one end. There are hundreds of different
varieties of these in both fixed and adjustable models. The fixed
one on the right is a Studebaker, which is from the fellow who
first made his fortune here in Placerville, California supplying early miners
with his new improved version of the wheelbarrow, and then went on to
further fame with his buggies in later years.
Note: I have what has been purported to be a
Studebaker Wheelbarrow listed for sale on our sister site
www.Patented-Antiques.com
Adjustable buggy wrenches come in an array of variations and sizes. We are particularly interested in buggy wrenches that have
any oil can or oiling feature incorporated into their design. Other desirable designs
have twist handles, or are lever actuated, or even self
adjusting. There were so many different buggy wrenches
patented and produced during their hey-day spanning roughly from the early
1800's to the turn of the century that it would be nearly impossible to put to memory all the names and features
of a given wrench and to be able to match those dates and
names with the name of that wrench w/o referencing to a book or the patent. In other words, even if we recognize the name or patent date of your wrench that you want to
sell we will still need to see it in order to be sure that we are in fact
both talking about the same wrench.
Another
category of vintage wrenches that are of interest are known as combination
wrenches. Those that combine more than one function into their
design. Examples abound of these unusual devices with the
most
frequently found being those that have both hammers and wrenches, or drill
/ braces and wrenches, or those that are both a boot
jack and a wrench, or some that incorporate a wrench and a
knife in the design. The example on the left is called the Prince,
an unusual patented brace / wrench
which was
patented right near the turn of the century. There are several other
varieties of this wrench that are available the most common being the Lowentraut which you often find just half of as it just pulled apart
instead of being bolted together as this one is.
If
you have any interesting and in good condition farm related antiques that are similar to those that I have pictured on this page you want to sell please contact me by email at
LCM@AntiqBuyer.com .
Click this link
if you would like to see past sales results
for
Antique Wrenches. Past Sales Results for other types of Antiques
are linked on the right.
To see farm related and other antiques
that I have for sale now please go to our sister site
at www.Patented-Antiques.com.
and
visit the numerous sale pages you will find there.
