On Sunday, Aug. 1, members of the Early American Industries Association and the Mid-West Tools Collectors Association will host their annual Antique Tool Show and Sale at Garfield Farm Museum in ...
Want to take a look? Email Dick von Bernuth at rjvonb@frii.com for information about visiting his collection of farming tools and equipment. LONGMONT — Dick von Bernuth doesn’t look like a museum ...
We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at dchval@juno.com or call Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. Gary Pietz’s grandparents settled on the Four Mound Prairie of Nine Mile ...
Do you know what this mystery tool, seen below, also from the collection of Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum, was used for? Landis Valley Museum Curator Jennifer Royer says the whole tool is 5 ...
SHEFFIELD -- A spoon bit brace, wooden shovel, mud shoes for horses; these were a few of Milt Barnum's favorite things. For nearly 50 years, the late Sheffield native collected nearly 1,000 kitchen ...
Oroville >> “With tools, we can do anything. Without tools, we’re just another animal,” is a phrase Carl S. “Bud” Bolt firmly believes and teaches. Bolt’s Antique Tool Museum began about 60 years ago ...
If sheep are set on their rumps, the animals become very calm and are easier to shear. The 1875 patent for this sheep-shearing chair says, “The sheep, having been placed on the seat in the position ...
It got sold along with other antique tools at our farm sale long, long ago.” A few readers made reference to “corn-husking parties,” or “corn bees,” where these tools would have been used.
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LONGMONT, Colo.—Dick von Bernuth doesn’t look like a museum curator. The 73-year-old retired civil engineer wears a faded beige baseball cap and well-worn ...
Members of the Mid-West Tool Collectors Association and the Early American Industries Association will be returning to Garfield Farm Museum in Campton Hills on Sunday, Aug. 6, to put on the 30th ...