The Antique Tool Collector's Guide to Value. - book reviews

Whole Earth Review, Wntr, 1989 by J. Baldwin

The Antique Tool Collector's Guide to Value I personally do not have the slightest interest in collecting anything, much less tools, though I have no doubt that this book will serve those who do. What does interest me is the nifty old tools that ingeniously fulfilled needs long gone; a look at those implements tells much about the minds of their inventors and users.

Also present and fascinating are tools that would still have utility if they were still made. Chain hardware stores only stock "popular" items, thus reducing the retail demand for the more esoteric and specialized stuff. The factory, of course sees the decline in sales as lack of interest, and so terminates production. Too bad. This book and the collections it informs might help familiarize people with what they could have. Again.