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Re: Antique Shop Finds
« Reply #60 on: December 13, 2019, 08:47:00 pm »
Oh My that D40

I have often thought of getting the all-brass D36 roller to go with this, but I've never seen one in great shape at a great price.

I had a very ugly example and decided to sell it on ebay instead of going through all the work of polishing it  :D
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Re: Antique Shop Finds
« Reply #61 on: December 19, 2019, 01:22:51 am »
A Jensen 85 for $89





And a Weeden 44 that just came into the shop, wasn't even on the shelf yet... he offered it to me for $60, I passed

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« Reply #62 on: February 02, 2020, 06:58:37 pm »
Found these two at an antique mall today.
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« Reply #63 on: February 02, 2020, 08:28:08 pm »
Found these two at an antique mall today.

Did you buy them Mike?

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« Reply #64 on: February 02, 2020, 08:34:44 pm »
Found these two at an antique mall today.

Those were actually priced fairly decent for an antique shop
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« Reply #65 on: February 03, 2020, 07:54:39 pm »
Found these two at an antique mall today.

Did you buy them Mike?

For some reason, the Weeden 311 called out to me and I couldn’t leave it there. 😁
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Re: Antique Shop Finds
« Reply #66 on: January 19, 2021, 08:16:08 am »
Haven’t been to any antique shops in nearly a year because of the virus... spotted this Weeden 20 for $60 yesterday and left it behind. Looks like someone soldered an extra pipe to the boiler to run another engine.









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« Reply #67 on: January 19, 2021, 08:26:30 am »
Bet it was tough passing that bargain up! Since antique shops usually know little of steam engine values, you find a lot of overpriced engines. But it can work to your favor as well, as I have some really valuable engines priced way too low due to this same lack of knowledge.Although not steam related, i recently bought a $300 jukebox speaker for $20 at an antique store- same one where i bought a nearly mint riveted boiler #5 for $150. It was sitting on a shelf next to a worthless engine, also priced at $150.
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« Reply #68 on: January 21, 2021, 04:31:33 am »
That's a nice thread!
I like the snapshots with steam engines sitting calmly among other antiques/junk to be spotted and liberated!

I have found only few steam engines in antique shops so far (a very small Doll overtype plus dredge, a very nice Doll 364/1, e.g.) but I was always far too nervous to take any photos of them sitting on the shelves before starting the negotiations...

Perhaps this (pretty rare) Doll 404/5 from 1937 is worth showing.
I had been trying my luck with many antique shops, "Trödelläden" (bric-a-brac shops), antique toy dealers and flea markets in Berlin that 15th November 2003 and was now roaming the area around Savignyplatz, Kantstraße, Pestalozzistraße. I was really exhausted from walking for hours (no exaggeration) and diving in and out of shops - and I had seen not a single steam item that day, not even the obligatory burnt and battered WILESCO D16, not to speak of any accessory. Not a single one, only shrugs and head shakes...!
Then I came across a small shop in Pestalozzistraße, full of custom made bicycles of the strangest designs, one of them made of wood, showing a great deal of craftsmanship. You could take a peek into the cluttered shop cum workshop - and there she stood, together with a Doll bench-saw and a Doll fret-saw on a workbench.

Actually, and I don't make this up, I turned and started to walk on, smiling about the funny bikes, because I had become so used to being disappointed that I had already gone a few paces before I realized "STEAM ENGINE!!!". Well, here she is:

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Re: Antique Shop Finds
« Reply #69 on: January 21, 2021, 07:49:04 am »
Nice Find Thomas!!!  8)
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« Reply #70 on: January 21, 2021, 07:58:45 am »
Beautiful engine and well worth the walking!

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« Reply #71 on: January 21, 2021, 09:23:15 am »
That's certainly worth a days walking! Plus, it gives you the incentive to keep searching such places despite the mostly disappointing searches.
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« Reply #72 on: January 21, 2021, 12:03:48 pm »
Wow!  What a great find Thomas.

My only Flea Market engine was found by my wife and it is also my first engine.  A Weeden 702. She gave it to me for Christmas in 2016.

She sure regrets that find! 🤠

300+ engines and accessories later.


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« Reply #73 on: January 21, 2021, 12:32:28 pm »
Wow!  What a great find Thomas.

My only Flea Market engine was found by my wife and it is also my first engine.  A Weeden 702. She gave it to me for Christmas in 2016.

She sure regrets that find! 🤠

300+ engines and accessories later.

😂 😂 😂
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« Reply #74 on: January 22, 2021, 06:14:30 am »
Wow!  What a great find Thomas.

My only Flea Market engine was found by my wife and it is also my first engine.  A Weeden 702. She gave it to me for Christmas in 2016.

She sure regrets that find! 🤠

300+ engines and accessories later.

Charlie, my wife and me met, as planned before, in the "Zwiebelfisch"-pub just around the corner from where I found the engine that day. When I told her that I had found something extraordinary and she saw the crate she thought it was some bottles of old wine or I had booked a table in a fancy restaurant (nothing to do with the crate) and well, yes, she was a bit disappointed when I showed her - just another steam engine.

But she managed to listen patiently (and smiling) to my story - when my telephone rang. It was the man in whose shop/workshop I had bought the engine. When I left, I had jokingly given him my number with the words "if you find the original drive bands of that engine...". Now he phoned me to say that this had somehow rang a bell and he had unearthed meanwhile a small box containing: a water reservoir for the feeder pump, a measuring cup, a desiccated piece of rubber hose for the pump, an old drive belt, a funnel and a small hook with a handle and a small piece of wick (to lighten the burner and open the fire door), all original Doll items. If I wanted to have them, I would just have to collect them...
My wife agreed to have an eye on the crate (yes, of course I ordered another glass of the bubbly stuff before I left) and I fetched the items.
Nice day. And we also found a good restaurant later...