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Thread: Aussie catalogue Frenzy.
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5th March 2014, 10:29 PM #1
Aussie catalogue Frenzy.
Did any one catch the end of these catalog auctions on ebay ?
Some serious bidding here, i wished that I had of put more on some of them but the Lioness of Finance forbid it.
looks like some one cleaned up here, and I doubt wether we will see trade catalogues such as this some time soon.
Original c.1938 Robinson Woodworking Machinery Tool Trade Catalogue, 223 Pages
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Original-...item461b3fe21e
Original 1920 American Woodworking Machinery Tool Trade Catalogue, 307 Pages
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Original-...item56620600df
Orig c.1919 Vial Woodworking Machinery & Machine Tool Australian Trade Catalogue
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-c-19...item56620dc782
Orig 1947 Wadkin Woodworking Machinery Tool Trade Catalogue, Saws, Planers, etc
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-1947...item461b4e45d5
Orig 1957 Wadkin Bursgreen Range of Woodworking Machinery Tool Trade Catalogue
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-1957...item461b4e8f62
Orig 1920's Wadkin Woodworking Machinery Tool Pocket Catalogue
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-1920...item461b4eaff5
Melbourne Matty.
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5th March 2014, 10:34 PM #2
Had these in my watch list and posted a link to them OS. The interest and prices was amazing.
Frank.
In trying to learn a little about everything,
you become masters of nothing.
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5th March 2014, 10:43 PM #3
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5th March 2014, 10:53 PM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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A few more
Matty,
These are a few more from the same seller. I think some of them flew under the radar, perhaps they didn't show up in the search engine as well.
Orig 1957 Wadkin Woodworking Machinery for More Profit Brochure
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-1957...item461b4ed25c
Sold for $11.50
Orig 1951 Wadkin Woodworking Machinery Range Fold Out Brochure
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-1951...item56620e86c1
Sold for $52.22
Orig c.1938 Robinson Electric Mortiser Woodworking Machinery Tool Sales Brochure
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-c-19...item461b4f139b
Sold for $9
Orig c.1930's Robinson Spindle Moulder Woodworking Machinery Tool Sales Brochure
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-c-19...item56620eac4a
Sold for $9
Orig c.1930's Robinson Electric Tenoner Woodworking Machinery Tool Brochure
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-c-19...item461b4f6019
Sold for $9
Orig c.1930's Robinson Cutters & Grinders for Woodworking Machinery Brochure
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-c-19...item461b4f8f05
Sold for $9
Orig c.1940's Robinson Woodworking Machinery Factory Brochure
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-c-19...item56620f00cc
Sold for $9
Orig 1936 Robertson Bits Cutters & Blades Woodworking Supplies Tool Brochure
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-1936...item461b4fcee7
Sold for $8
Cheers,
Camo
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5th March 2014, 11:00 PM #5
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5th March 2014, 11:36 PM #6
https://archive.org/details/catalogue00workgoog is a nice 1900 catalogue.
Niles Tool works.
there are others on there you can download as well.
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6th March 2014, 12:18 PM #7
I had a crack at the Wadkins catalogs with the intention of scanning them. They went for way out of my budget and the same fella bought nearly all of them. There was a french guy bidding also, a bit of international interest.
I have got to say that I thought that the 1947 Wadkin catalogue was much better than the Bursgreen range catalogue that sold for three times the price. These came from a farm clean-up near Yass in New South Wales, where I bought a lot of his paperwork when he was retiring into town. His father and grandfather had run sawmills at Box Hill and further east of Melbourne, and that was when and why these had been accumulated.…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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6th March 2014, 02:30 PM #8
Dale, I'm assuming that is a quote from the seller ?
The Wadkin catalog may be a better catalog presentation wise and for volume of pages, but from a collectors point of view the Bursgreen is still the more rare !
He makes the point also that the catalogs were from a collection, (father and grandfather and a saw mill in Box hill), makes me wonder how many chances left to purchase old catalogs like that again from another family ?
Melbourne Matty.
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6th March 2014, 04:31 PM #9