Summer Tool Sale

Saturday, Sat. August 23, 2025, at 9:00 AM

Preview for auction – Friday, August 22 , 2025

1:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.

Sale to be held at the Horst Auction Center, located at 50 Durlach Rd., Ephrata, Lancaster Co., Pa.

 

Along with a New Event:

“Meet on the Grass” Tool Meet:  Friday, August 22, 7:00 A.M. -2P.M.

Benefit Event for MWTCA: Area P.

(to be held on our grass field prior to auction preview)

 

 

Over 450 Lots of Antique Tools – In Main Auction Hall

     Fine, “Henry Disston & Sons, Celebrated Saws” saw-shaped trade advertising sign; Edge Tools: Axes, Hatchets & Adze –  signed, “Goss” Goosewing axe; Broad squaring & side axes;  Single poll & dbl.-bit felling axes; Posthole & mortise axes; Camping & trail marking hatchets; Carpenter’s & cooper’s adze; canoe/gutter adze; Hurdle maker’s twibil; Cooper’s, Wheelwright’s & other drawknives; Siding maker’s Slicks, Paring slicks; firmer, bench, chisels (several sets); Collection of various carving chisels; Race knives & other specialty knives; Butcher’s cleavers, knives, & mincing knives; Wooden Molding Planes –  Rare, basket maker’s splint sizing tool & pliers; Screw arm & wedge arm plow planes; Complex, Joinery, & bench planes; Transitional planes; Simple & complex molding (several Lancaster Co. makers); coachmaker’s rabbets; wooden spill cutting plane;   Metal Planes: Rare, Millers Falls #4 chute board & plane set, Stanley: Bailey, Bailey, Handyman, “Gage”, “Four-Square” & “Two-Tone” series bench jack planes; #78 rabbet/fillister; #190 improved rabbet; #72 Chamfer; #238 weather-strip; #43 combination plow/match plane; Traut’s Patent #46 dado/plow plane;  #12, #112, #82 adjustable scraper;  #113 adj. compass/circular plane; spoke shaves & routers; Several bench jack planes by various makers, including: “C.W. Marsh Co.”; H.S. B. & Co. “Zenith”; “Lincoln”;  “Millers Falls”; “Merit Tools”; English infill bench jack planes & shoulder rabbet planes;  Measuring devices: “Davis Level & Tool Co.” patented inclinometer; Wooden & metal marking gauges (2 –“E.W. Carpenter”); Folding & straight rules; Framing & try Squares; Wooden & cast iron levels; Stanley #139 level sights; Brass trammel-points; Brass & steel plumb bobs; “Lufkin” log &/or board foot rules;  Cooper’s wheel travelers; Wrought iron & factory made calipers/dividers; Stanley, Starrett & other precision measuring tools; Engineer’s wye level & transits;  Shop related tools: Stanley #400 corner clamps; Stanley #902 bench top tool chest (partial assembled set); Pootatuck Corp. “Lion Trimmer”, miter cutter, reproduction “mitre cutter” (Lion-type trimmer); “adjustable wrenches, combination wrenches, Jeweler’s bench vise (hand wrought); Hammers: Wooden mallets; hand wrought & modern claw hammers; carpenters, crate hammer & variety of metalworking hammers; Saws: Ice harvest saws; Lg. collection of handsaws: several early Philadelphia, Pa., makers handsaws; variety of Disston, Atkins, Keen Kutter & other handsaws; Several Disston “Graphic Series” handsaws (2 – Victory model); Several various model combination frame-square/saws; Posthole mortise & wooden bow saws; Brass & steel back & dovetail saws; Butchering saws; Drilling tools: T-handled augers & reamers; Diamond “Rapid Fire Drill”, early brace type hammer drill; Wooden, metal & ratchet braces; Auger bit sets;  “A.H. Reid, Phila.” & other maker spiral drill/drivers; Goodell-Pratt, “Yankee” & other push drills Lg. to small screwdrivers; Primitives:  Wooden painted fraternal axe for “Order of the Owls”; “Lodge” wooden fraternal axe; Wooden  tool chests; Farrier’s tool tray; Tin miner’s cap lamp; Dengelstocks; Tobacco spears; Springs scales; Hide scales; Fine, homemade bentwood string-winders; Ames Plow Co., buggy jack; 2 – signed “Young” family wooden farm tools; Ice tongs (1 – child’s size); Slate roofing tools (2 – signed, “H.K. Duck, West Earl, Lanc. Co. Pa.); “Cyclone” hedge trimmer; Reaping sickles (1 – “D. Christ”); Potter’s tools; Button-hole chisels; Eel/fish gigs;   Books: Antique tool references; tool catalogs & trade ephemera

 

 

Garage Area: starts at 10:00 A.M. –  Large amount of antique tools in need of restoration & parts;  Wooden & metal clamps; carpentry tools; hand saws; Hand drills; Wrenches; Modern & User tools & hardware

 

 

 

*Note – This is just a partial listing items for these sales. See our website for a more complete listings & photos. Internet bidding on-line is available, but we would love to have you join as at this auction.

 

 Accepted Payments:  Cash, PA checks, credit cards, and debit cards. No out of state checks without prior approval. 3% Auction House fee will be added to all credit card payments.

 

  For more info on “The Meet on the Grass” tool meet, please contact Rick Weymer at 717-725-4451, or email: raw2Ls@hotmail.com.

 This is a brand new event. Come on out and join us the entire weekend here in Lancaster Co., Pa.