hugo_schmidt•2mo ago

Finding out my great-grandpa's 1940s hammer is worth $400 on eBay was a total shock

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rubyschmidt2mo ago

Bet someone out there is turning it into a TikTok restoration project and flipping it for triple that.

taylor_young2mo ago

I read somewhere those old tools are getting snapped up fast.

the_fiona1mo ago

Oh man, I gotta jump in on this one. I mean, old hand tools are definitely popular right now, but "snapping up fast" makes it sound like they're all gone. More like the good stuff at a fair price goes quick, but there's still tons of rusty beaters sitting at flea markets and estate sales that nobody's touching. The real old carpenter's braces and pre-1950s plane irons are the ones that seem to vanish, not like, every rusty wrench or hammer with a loose head.