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TOOLS AND THE SHOP => ANTIQUE/COLLECTOR TOOLS/BOXES/HAND ONLY => Topic started by: Midnitemack on June 24, 2019, 10:40:53 PM

Title: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: Midnitemack on June 24, 2019, 10:40:53 PM
Bought this in online auction last night..... checked it out before I bid , every piece Hinsdale , got to be close to complete.... pick it up later this week.... will post more pics when I get it home . (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190625/ece0f762264f2556cef422afe8cd6393.jpg)


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Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: Lookin4_67GalaxieConv on June 24, 2019, 11:00:36 PM
That looks nice!
Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: DeadNutz on June 25, 2019, 12:02:41 AM
Very nice set and I like the 8 point wrench as I never see those.
Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: lostmind on June 25, 2019, 06:11:19 AM
Quote from: DeadNutz on June 25, 2019, 12:02:41 AM
Very nice set and I like the 8 point wrench as I never see those.

Ford brake adjust wrench. Never saw one in a set. Nice find
Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: jabberwoki on June 25, 2019, 11:50:32 AM
Maybe a war orphan?

V nice  Cob.
Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: goodfellow on June 25, 2019, 12:05:11 PM
Beautiful condition, and very unique! -- I've never seen a set that included an obstruction wrench and a manufacturer specific brake adjustment tool.

Great score --
Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: Midnitemack on June 25, 2019, 01:35:55 PM
Quote from: jabberwoki on June 25, 2019, 11:50:32 AM
Maybe a war orphan?

V nice  Cob.

Thanks mate , I posted it over on channel 3 , been some speculation there that that was a possibility, I’m sure it’s that era , and it could be vehicle  specific  but for the huge number of US sourced trucks and military vehicles that were sold off here after WW2 (my Dad had stories of what he and the other local farmers came home with from those auctions) . If a good number of those vehicles had Hinsdale stuff amongst their tool kits I’d have seen a lot more of it than I have before now .... it’s a bit of a mystery one !


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Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: bonneyman on June 25, 2019, 05:54:13 PM
I love the old sets with the speeder handle is secured into the lid. Gotta hand it to the ole boys back then!  8)
Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: muddy on June 25, 2019, 07:26:11 PM
Very nice grab!

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Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: Rural53 on June 26, 2019, 01:39:22 AM
Great find.
Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: Midnitemack on June 27, 2019, 04:11:36 AM
Some more pics .....

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190627/ab79901185c914cf3b2991d7b8d1cd63.jpg)

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Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: Midnitemack on June 27, 2019, 04:14:32 AM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190627/3d8fbf69d7f4527293d40a50e3df3b1b.jpg)

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190627/31eb9e6c7498cc8108b1be2b3e3c7c3b.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190627/9606b984a58d08dc20072c61d00833b1.jpg)

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Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: Midnitemack on June 27, 2019, 04:30:29 AM
Embosed on the lid of the box along with the Hinsdale emblem is "23R", which seems to be the model number of this set, on counting the pieces once I took some stuff out which obviously didn't belong there are in fact 23 pieces not counting the box. Opinion on Channel 3 is that it dates  from the 1930s, the guy I bought it from is a reseller, his belief was it came out here just in the last few years amongst the personal stuff of a US guy who had chosen to settle in NZ. Funny how we look at something and immediately come up with the wrong theory on Age and how it might have got here .......
Title: Re: Last Nights Hinsdale score
Post by: john k on June 27, 2019, 11:17:35 PM
 Very interesting set.  Very unusual to see a box that vintage not rusted away.   Scored a Hinsdale thin tappet wrench today.