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Jim DeLaney

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I got this little Stanley "toy box" as partial payment for that trestle table base I built, and showed everybody last week.

Documentation shows it was made in 1922-23, and it's absolutely complete, including the original instruction book, catalog, and several other Stanley brochures. Most of the cutters have never even been out of their boxes! It even has the original screwdrivers with it. The box is a little worn, but that the only fault I've found.

I'm pretty stoked with it!
 

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WOW is right jim.. how did that survive this long and with the literature as well without being used???? how did your friend come across it?? thats bran new but old:eek::eek::D:thumb::thumb: glad for you//
 
Darren Wright;235380Wow said:
I may use it - just to say I could :D - but it'll spend most of its time back in the box, or on display. Truthfully, I really don't even want to get it dusty! :D

WOW is right jim.. how did that survive this long and with the literature as well without being used???? how did your friend come across it?? thats bran new but old:eek::eek::D:thumb::thumb: glad for you//

Believe it or not, Neil had TWO of them. This is far and away the better one, though. I thinke he inherited them from a grandfather - not sure. Neil saud he used this one ONCE - to make a piece of moulding - and the blade he used was still installed. Nearly all the blades look brand new, and none of them look like they've ever been sharpened.

Jim you scored there. And you say that is only partial payment:eek:

Yeah, I got some white oak - several 24" wide by 10 feet long 5/4 planks; some 16/4 walnut; some 16/4 spalted hard maple and some 6/4 & 8/4 spalted hard maple; and one nice piece of 4/4 chestnut about a foot wide and 8 feet long. Nice haul, overall, I think.
 
That is amazing. To think of the tools I have purchased new and within my lifetime they don't look that good, box gone, literature gone. Just amazing. Well, all has been said about the partial payment and wood score. Glad you got it as you will appreciate it. Good job!
 
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