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Auction Wally
Auctions and Antiques ExaminerAuctionWally has been an auctioneer and appraiser for 25 years. He runs an antiques appraisal blog where he writes about the value of antiques and how to sell them. You can find him at www.auctionwally.com.
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by Auction Wally, Auctions and Antiques Examiner
What is this? It's stamped I J co. for Iver Johnson
I have a lot of antique tools I"m selling on eBay, some of them are very unusual and I have no idea what they are! To the right is one in particular that stumps me. It has two dowels on ether side, it's made of cherry wood. Each dowel is almost 12" long.
Then it has a flat wooden shaft in the middle that is secured by two brass brackets and on one side of the wooden shaft is a metal shim. I do know this, it's stamped IJ co., the IJ stands for Iver Johnson co. of Fitchburg MA, which was a company that built bicycles, motorcycles and guns. I believe it to be about 1840-60s. The gentleman who's estate I purchased from, worked for the IJ co. and I found many other Iver Johnson tools which I was able identify. If you know what this is, please leave a comment or email me at Auctionwally@Auctionwally.com
Moving on, we have last week's "what is it" question,
which was this unusual pair of cast iron or steel
hooks you see below. The answer is, they are early "sack hooks"
which were used by the USPS and other places which
needed to hang large heavy sacks. The hooks were was mounted to a pipe
then as they are weighted, would hang with the
hooks pointing up, ready to catch on a sack.
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AW
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