Tool Swap USA
Here is a new Southern Ca website supporting the
active and growing tool group down there. It is an active group
with monthly tool meeting / swaps and I wish I could attend their meetings. There is a lot
of additional info as well.
MWTCA
Known as Midwest, the king of all tool collecting groups. Lots
of info and a well-presented site.
The Virtual Museum of Surveying History
This site
consists of exhibits which cover
a variety of topics related to surveying history. As the museum
grows, we will continue to develop galleries with different themed exhibits
in each gallery.
Jim Bode Tools
Jim Bode offers some of the finest quality & nicest antique tools
available on the net or elsewhere on his website. Take a Look.
DigAntiques
This is an interesting idea for a search
engine that is much needed. The idea is it focuses on
specific antique related websites and excludes all the fluff and
irrelevant stuff you seem to have to wade through with any other
search engines. If EBay's search results could be
adjusted to give similar results life would be good. Give it a
try.
Jon Zimmers Antique Tools
This is one of the better antique tool sites on the Internet.
Jon has the distinction of being one of the first, and is by the far
the best.
AntiqueSurveying.com
Robert Parrish has an extensive list of surveying equipment
that he has for sale as well as information on the repair, restoration,
cleaning, & parts making services that he offers for surveying and scientific
instruments.
Treasure Hunting
with Cheryl-Ann Millsap.
Here is the first "Blog" on antiques that I have found.
It is a nice site with an interesting outlook on antiques, how to find
them, where to shop, and what antiques and hunting them are all about.
www.arithmometre.org
This is Valéry Monnier's definitive site for
info on this category of calculators and adding machines. These
calculators from an age past have an important place in the history
of calculation and their development is an interesting story..
I have never seen a more complete and informative site on the subject.
Well worth a look if you need info on this type of instrument from a
time past..
The Hardware Companies Kollectors Klub
Here is the place to go to learn more
about Keen Kutter, Winchester, E. C. Simmons, Diamond Edge, OVB, and
all the other great early hardware companies. Two yearly meets
are held in Missouri which include an amazing auction, tailgate sales
and lots more.
Shaker
Brook Farm Antique Pressing Iron Museum This
website is home to the collection of irons and laundry stoves of Bill
and Peggy Heyman. This is a great website filled with loads of
information, including a detailed classified listing section that makes
it easy to connect with other pressing iron collectors.
You will also find listings for iron collector clubs worldwide, including
the Midwest Sadiron Collector Club website, as well as links to washing
machine and antique wood stove websites. There is also an extensive
listing of searches available that link directly to Pressing Iron related
items at eBay. Try this site!
ISMACS
This International Sewing Machine Collectors Group publishes a
top-notch quarterly magazine and hosts several international conventions
and auctions as well as their informative website.
Simmons Auction Co.
This top-notch Missouri
auction house conducts outstanding specialty auctions for tools, pressing
irons, Griswold and cast iron cookware, graniteware, and lots more great
stuff. A well done and very informative site.
Museum
of American Heritage
Dedicated to preserving and displaying objects related to 19th
and 20th century invention, this museum is located in Palo Alto, CA
but you can also visit them online. They offer great workshops
and classes as well as their ongoing exhibits related to the history
of technology. Be sure to check out the resources on their links
page.
MSICC
Here is where you
can join the oldest and largest Sadiron collecting club around.
This group was founded in the Midwest in 1984, and there is currently
a proposal to change the club name to PITCA---Pressing Iron and Trivet
Collectors of America---to be more inclusive toward trivet collectors
and to all of us pressing iron collectors East of the Mississippi, up
in New England where you can't get there from here, and out here on
the Left Coast. The quarterly newsletter "Pressing News" alone
is well worth the modest yearly membership dues and the resource library
you can borrow from is second-to-none.
Lynn Rosack's Trivets
Lynn is the author of The
A-Z Guide to Collecting Trivets and is working on her second volume.
She is also the spearhead of the Ebay trivet collecting forum groups.
Be sure to take a look at her website!
Sew2Go
Catherine Eith's website is where
"the quilting and sewing world comes to shop". Check out this
site if you are looking for treadle sewing machines for sale as well
as a large assortment of antique sewing machine parts, including hard-to-find
parts for Singer Featherweights.
Natural Tree Furniture
Free form Stick and Twig furnishings handcrafted
by artisan Ray Smith. Environmentally Responsible Designs ~ Specializing
in Cat Tree Furniture. In addition, one of the neatest links pages
I have seen.
F.W. Muller Toy
Sewing Machine Book
This 324 page book was just published
by TSM collectors and researchers Rita and Manfred Koym. It covers
the history of the 111 year old factory, a list of patents and registered
trademarks, wonderful color pictures of the machines as well as their
boxes, and a full catalogue of all known (and unknown) toy sewing machines
F. W. Muller Jr. ever produced. For more details and ordering
info, contact Rita directly by clicking on the title link above.
And be sure to visit their
toy sewing machine website
where you will find pictures of their collection as well as other information
and a selection of the toy sewing machines they have available for sale
or trade.
Needlebar.com
The NeedleBar is a group
of vintage sewing machine collectors (that's vintage machines, not necessarily
vintage collectors!) who also have an interest in researching the history
of these fascinating items and their makers. Lots of information
on sewing machines and a great links page.
MyOldTools
This site by Ross Conant is the source for
Millers Falls and other boring machines as well as other great tools
for the timber framer and other woodworking trades.
Axel & Susanne's
Sewing Machine Collection Their
website is in German but has fabulous pictures of splendid toy sewing
machines in their collection, so even if you don't understand the text
you will love the photos!
Sewing
Machine Parts If you are
looking for parts for your vintage sewing machines, including parts
for Singer Featherweights, you might be able to find them here at Guy
Baker's site.
Don Livingston's
Longhorn Hatters
This fellow makes some
of the nicest custom
designed and handmade Western hats you've ever seen, and using antique
hatters tools. Specializing in re-creations of popular film hats,
and hat antiquing. Rustic Rattlesnake Hatbands, key chains, and
belts are offered as well as other Southwest gift items. As his
Slogan says, "My hats make your head feel good".
Jeff Pearson Antiques
If you are looking for that special architectural piece for your yard
or an iron gate, granite posts, as well as a selection of quality tools
for the user and collector try this site.
Nancee Meeker Pottery
Larry's sister's website. Nancee
is a well-known potter whose work is collected by individuals and museums
nationwide. A well-deserved mid-life change of careers has
her involved in the field of muscular therapy, as well as many
other of life's pursuits. We
also now have her in training as our East Coast picker!
Bill Meeker Jr.
(Willie) This is my brother's website,
and the fellow who got the mathematics gene that I missed out on, but
then I can do some things he can't. I have not been able to get
him to start collecting slide rules but he does collect other things
so that is a start.
Furniture Knowledge
A
nice site full of important information for the working woodworker,
as well a nice selection of links to help you find most anything you
will ever need related to woodworking.
Mayberry's Metal Art
This
is the site of Pete Mayberry, who started out as a welder and discovered
he could create beauty using various metals, a torch, a grinder, and
his own vision.
The Typewriter Museum
This is a new and
very worthwhile typewriter site with lots of information on some rare
as well as many more typical machines that are involved in this interesting
collectible.
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