Thread: Aussie catalogue Frenzy.

Had these in my watch list and posted a link to them OS. The interest and prices was amazing.






Frank.

Originally Posted by FRB Design

Had these in my watch list and posted a link to them OS. The interest and prices was amazing.

Frank.

Frank, I think the Value and interest in catalogs has been undervalued for some time, I am not surprised, also having seen auctions in the UK also reach these prices.

Melbourne Matty.

Matty,

These are a few more from the same seller. I think some of them flew under the radar, perhaps they didn't show up in the search engine as well.

Orig 1957 Wadkin Woodworking Machinery for More Profit Brochure

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-1957...item461b4ed25c

Sold for $11.50

Orig 1951 Wadkin Woodworking Machinery Range Fold Out Brochure
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-1951...item56620e86c1

Sold for $52.22

Orig c.1938 Robinson Electric Mortiser Woodworking Machinery Tool Sales Brochure

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-c-19...item461b4f139b

Sold for $9

Orig c.1930's Robinson Spindle Moulder Woodworking Machinery Tool Sales Brochure

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-c-19...item56620eac4a

Sold for $9

Orig c.1930's Robinson Electric Tenoner Woodworking Machinery Tool Brochure

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-c-19...item461b4f6019

Sold for $9

Orig c.1930's Robinson Cutters & Grinders for Woodworking Machinery Brochure

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-c-19...item461b4f8f05

Sold for $9

Orig c.1940's Robinson Woodworking Machinery Factory Brochure

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-c-19...item56620f00cc

Sold for $9

Orig 1936 Robertson Bits Cutters & Blades Woodworking Supplies Tool Brochure

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Orig-1936...item461b4fcee7

Sold for $8

Cheers,

Camo

Originally Posted by camoz

Matty,

These are a few more from the same seller. I think some of them flew under the radar, perhaps they didn't show up in the search engine as well.

Cheers,

Camo

Very Luck person that scored all those, completely overlooked !!

Melbourne Matty.

https://archive.org/details/catalogue00workgoog is a nice 1900 catalogue.
Niles Tool works.

there are others on there you can download as well.

I had a crack at the Wadkins catalogs with the intention of scanning them. They went for way out of my budget and the same fella bought nearly all of them. There was a french guy bidding also, a bit of international interest.

I have got to say that I thought that the 1947 Wadkin catalogue was much better than the Bursgreen range catalogue that sold for three times the price. These came from a farm clean-up near Yass in New South Wales, where I bought a lot of his paperwork when he was retiring into town. His father and grandfather had run sawmills at Box Hill and further east of Melbourne, and that was when and why these had been accumulated.

Originally Posted by DSEL74

I had a crack at the Wadkins catalogs with the intention of scanning them. They went for way out of my budget and the same fella bought nearly all of them. There was a french guy bidding also, a bit of international interest.

Dale, I'm assuming that is a quote from the seller ?
The Wadkin catalog may be a better catalog presentation wise and for volume of pages, but from a collectors point of view the Bursgreen is still the more rare !
He makes the point also that the catalogs were from a collection, (father and grandfather and a saw mill in Box hill), makes me wonder how many chances left to purchase old catalogs like that again from another family ?

Melbourne Matty.

Originally Posted by L.S.Barker1970

Dale, I'm assuming that is a quote from the seller ?
The Wadkin catalog may be a better catalog presentation wise and for volume of pages, but from a collectors point of view the Bursgreen is still the more rare !
He makes the point also that the catalogs were from a collection, (father and grandfather and a saw mill in Box hill), makes me wonder how many chances left to purchase old catalogs like that again from another family ?

Melbourne Matty.

Yep that was a quote from the seller……He was at the right place at the right time..