Antiques Roadshow Can Make You Drool
By Sean O'Hara
If I happen to run across Antiques Roadshow playing on PBS, I almost always see some kind of tool-related item being appraised in the show somewhere. This plane/ax combo owned by some lucky bastard in Tampa is a fine example of gear you just can’t have.
If you watch the video you can make out all the handwork and fine carving in the top and sides of the piece. It’s a work of art all by itself, but I’m more than a little curious to know what kinds of projects a plane like that builds.
The appraiser valued these at $3,000 to $4,000, but the owner said he’s not going to sell them. Of course it would benefit everyone else who wanted a crack at ‘em if he just ran home and slammed ‘em up on eBay — however we’re hoping that didn’t happen.
18th-Century Austrian Tools [Roadshow Archive]
January 17th, 2009 at 12:52 am
There is some guy in Europe who sells embossed goose wing axes on ebay all the time, I think they usually go for well under a couple hundred bucks
January 17th, 2009 at 1:13 am
The value of a tool is not measured by its price.
January 17th, 2009 at 1:31 am
-paganwonder
how does that line go over with the significant other?
January 17th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Leaf- Not worth a d*** , thus I try it here!
January 17th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
A jointing plane that size would be used to plane large boards to their final shape/smoothness. Very beautiful piece.
The axes look to be some sort of hewing axes, used to hew logs into beams, etc. Some timberframers still use similar axes today.