Farm Related Patent
Models &
Salesman Sample Farm
Machines
We can help you sell your
Antique Patent Models, Salesman Samples and Models of Antique Farm
Equipment and related 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. The picture below is of a very detailed and well
constructed model of a farm
machine known as the Jones Field Mower. This
Jones Mower (the name can be seen in the cutout letters in
the cast iron seat) is a great piece, and exhibits a degree of
craftsmanship and detail rarely seen in today's world.
Its design incorporates hard to imagine
details in miniature that seem impossible in the period that this salesman sample dates from.
The detail and precision that
is exhibited in farm models or salesman samples of farm machinery like this 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. 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.
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 back when this type
of door-to-door sales approach was the norm. 
On the right is a very detailed model or salesmen sample of a Hay Tedder.
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.
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 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 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 can be
found full size, 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, or just plain intuition, but without a tag
or
other
documentation that 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, but I am not sure. I know it is a
patent model, but could never prove it. These tagless models are fun and I do buy
and sell them in this state,
but without proper documentation and the original patent tags the value is
minimal.
Farm Tools / Wrenches & Other Patented Devices from the Farm
We can help you sell your
Antique Farm related Antiques!!
We are also active dealers in other unusual antique patented and
mechanical devices that
were used on
farms, in the fields, and in farmhouses of early rural America.
One example is Antique and vintage farm related devices like rope winders / makers, both manufactured versions that were made of cast iron
like shown on the left, and primitive
homemade varieties made with wooden frames are popular and of interest.
I am also interested in antique hand held corn shellers. Some table-top or bench mounted corn
shellers
are also wanted. We do not typically deal in large floor model corn shellers simply because of the size and weight factors that are involved
except for a few very rare examples like the one patented by Rufus
Porter. 
I am always interested in hand
held shellers like the one pictured on the right which is known
as the 50 Cent Sheller. The name coming from what it cost when new. It is
from Ohio and dates from the mid to late 1800's.
Hand held shellers come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and many of them
are hard to recognize, and occasionally people try and sell things like
fish scalers as shellers that look similar to the real thing. This style of
hand corn
sheller was generally used to separate seed corn from the cob for use for
starting next years crop. Seed corn, as opposed to larger shellers
used for
feed corn 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. I am interested in nearly all
of the different varieties of these hand held corn shellers that are
available.
Of the larger table mounted varieties there are
several very common 
ones, like the
Black Hawk, pictured on the left, and
the Red Devil. Shellers that look much like these two are
generally more common. 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 deal in authentic
windmill weights, steam whistles, unusual adjustable
wrenches or
buggy wrenches, and
many other farm related antiques. We also sell cast iron tractor seats with names cut out or cast
out in the 
seat
like the Stoddard shown on the left.
We buy a lot of other types of tools, wrenches, stove pipe warmers,
pressing iron trivets, that have this same sort of feature with cutout letters in the
casting also.
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,
pleasevisit 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 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 wrench 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.
If you are
looking for wrenches to buy please visit our sister site at
www.patented-antiques.com and go to the
Farm Tool page at that site, where we have a varied selection or
wrenches for sale.
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 bicycle, it makes one shake his head in
wonder.
The antique 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 stamped into the head. There are
many very common bicycle wrenches worth a
couple of bucks because they are so common, but there are just as many
that are pretty hard to find. Please send a picture or scan of any
nice or unusual antique wrenches that you have
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.
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 buy, and 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 that most have 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 also
come in an array of variations and sizes and many of them are good pieces. We are particularly interested in buggy wrenches that have
any oil can or oiling feature incorporated into their design. Other desirable designs
have twist features, 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 for
us or anybody else to be able to put to memory all the names and features
of a given wrench and to be able to in ones mind match those dates and
names with the name of that wrench. In other words, even if we recognize the name or patent date of your wrench that you may 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, and harder to find are those that are both a boot
jack and a wrench, or some that incorporate both a wrench and a
knife. The example on the left is called the Prince, an unusual
patented tool
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.
