Subject: Midwest tool collectors

From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 13:38:45 -0500

Another good reason to join this group is the tool sales they have
that are open to members only. Jim Price (president) tells me the
blacksmith tools aren't in much demand, at least compared to the
planes that are so collectible, and as such can be bought cheap from
the members. Quite often these guys will buy a lot of tools at an
auction trying to get one special item and they deal pretty good on
the "junk" like tongs and hardies and such. By the way, Jim Price is
an archeologist for the forest service and a real good source on
identifying odd tools. One of his specialties is tools made from other
items. He can tell you the history of many old trades including
blacksmithing. We use him as a reference on a lot of the stories we do
in the Rural Missouri magazine I edit. He is a blacksmith and a master
woodworker (makes coffins!), works out of a historic shop in Naylor.

-- 
Jim McCarty
Father Helias Forge
Taos, MO
Editor Rural Missouri Magazine
Newsletter editor, Blacksmiths Association of Missouri

³Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of little minds³

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 23:26:09 -0400

I may have missed it in the note, but how would one contact the Midwest Tool
Collectors?  Name, rank and serial number would be nice.