Parlett Farm Life Museum - Day One

A huge variety and assortment of tools from many different vocations – this ring will take all day– hundreds and hundreds of items to sell! Come prepared, there isn’t just ONE of anything!!!

Blacksmith – Hundreds of Items!!!; Dozens of Anvils of all kinds! Peter Wrights, big, small – we’ve got ‘em all!; Early Stake Anvils; Tinker’s Anvils; Jeweler’s Anvils; Unusual Large Double Horn; Cooper & Tinsmith Anvils; Shears; Forges; Hundreds of Blacksmith Tongs, Hammers, Cutters, Forks, Hardies and Tools; Numerous Swage Blocks; Cone anvils; Whetstones; Tool Holders; Hammer Rack; Forge Blowers; Vise Collection – dozens; Melting Pots; Huge Bellows; Lineshaft powered lathes, drills, grinders, post vises, pedal grinder; an entire table of files and more;  Huge assortment of Tinsmithing tools – bench full of tools, anvils, benders, beaders, cutters and more; Carpenter Tool Display that is hard to comprehend – hundreds of planes, moulding planes, block planes, Stanley planes, hammers, mortise & tenon barn building drill, huge brace collection, shaving horse, treadle table saw, plumb bobs, measuring tools, folding rules, hand sawsof all kinds, treadle scroll saws, carpenter’s boxes, wood clamps, shavers, shapers, levels, squares, pedal mortise cutter; Wheelwright Tools: Ironwheel bender; Wagon wheel; Hub Boring Tool; Spoke Shaves; Tire Shrinkers; Wheel Soakers; Measuring Tools; Braces; Excellent old original Workbenches!!!; Cooper’s Tool Display – everything you need to start making barrels!; Harness Maker tools, benches, leather sewing machine, forms and more; Primitive Cobbler’s Bench full of tools and more!; Farrier’s Bench and numerous tools; Excellent original paint, lettered Farrier’s box;  Other Items of Interest: Early Lathes, pedal and lineshaft driven; Tap & Die Sets; Block and Tackles; Wooden Pulleys; Lineshaft Parts; Iron Pulleys; Early Electric Motors; Logging tools; Metal Brakes; Machinist’sToolboxes – beautiful oak and other ornate examples; Complete Broom Making Equipment, Cutter, Tiers, Presses – very rare and really nice!; Great Collection of Broad Axes – Including early hand wrought Goosewing examples

Hardware Store

This Hardware Store was set up on the site of the Farm Life Museum and stocked by John Parlett, just as he remembered the Hardware Stores from the past. Many of the items in the store are new old stock (NOS) and it even includes most in original boxes. It’s all here, right down to the counter displays and original cabinets. Take a step back in time!

First We Have Ever Seen! Stupendous Three-sided, Glass-door,Rope-Edged Oak Starrett’s Tools Display case with Machinist tools included, brass Starrett plaques on three sides, on ornate cast iron swivel base; Wall full of Glass Front Oak General Store Display Cases; Excellent Self Framed RCA RadioTron Tube Sign with lots of color; DuPont Paint Poster “for Beauty that Thrills”, die-cut counter display with 1920’s auto – very exceptional ; Gates Belt Display Case ; Wiss Shears and Scissors Poster; Edison Mazda Tube Counter Display; Kraeuter Pliers and Tools advertising poster with 1920’s automobile; NOS Rope Block and Tackle; Machinist Tool Chest with NOS tools; Several NOS iron and wood planes of all kinds; Yale Skeeter Cheater Box; NOS Oil Stove Wicks Still in Box; Small Mazda Bulb Counter Display; Excellent NOS Moulding Plane; NOS Bobbins; Perfection Oil Stove with advertising poster and stpveblack cans; NOS Stanley gauges, sawvise, clamps, and Yankee Screwdriver; Church Sani-Seats and Perfection Stove Posters; Huge assortment of hardware store items: oil cans, fly spray, milk strainers, household oils, stove wrenches, blow torches, handles, fuses, hammers, bolt boxes, hinges paint cans, wire spools, chicken feeders, livestock powders, lanterns, buckets, sprayers, garden tools, the list goes on and on…..; Hardware catalogues; Endless Belt; Nail Kegs; Axe Handles; Hardware Cloth, Hand Tools, ; Huge Collection of Egg Scales; Mall Tool Counter Display; Collection of Fly Traps; GE Bulb Counter Display; Screen Wire Rack; Excellent Ever Ready Flashlight and Battery Display; Chair Caning Supplies; Devoe Paint Sign ; Sherwin Williams Paint Cut Out Man Display; Numerous Wooden Boxes; Original Old General Store Counter ; NOS Spools and Rope; Rope Rack; Hanging Scales; Rare Starrett Tools Sign; Great Winchester Hunting, Camping and Fishing Supplies Sign; Large Bolt Bin; Key Grinding Machine; Great Dodge and Ford Automobile Switch Key Blank Display Board; Large Yale Key Trade Sign; “Knock Em Dead” Bird and Bug Killer; House Number Display; NOS Yale locks; Galvanized sprinkler cans; NOS Lanterns; Counter Scales; Calf Weaners; Wiss Scissor Display Case; Hinge display board; Iyonore Metal Roofing Sign; Wheeling Fence Sign; Rare Weed Chains Sign with 1920’s automobile on it; much more, too many items to list them all! See the catalog for a full listing!

 General Store

Thought about having your own General Store? We have everything you have beenlooking for – duplicates of most – and a lot of things you haven’t even thoughtof yet.

Advertising Display Items: Window Bright Tin, BlitzCloth, Clabber Girl Tins,Crow Quill Tips, Velvet Thin Leads, Very Old Box Full of Fly Swatters, “HoneyBlades” Razor Blade Display, Baby Ruth, Maxwell House, “Peanut Kids” PeanutButter, Tetley Tea, KC Baking Powder, Morton Salt, Buddie Brand Cloths, Satina,Golden Glen Syrup, Land-O’-Lakes Butter, Corn Cob Pipe Display, Large RedBarrel :Kerosene 7cents Gallon, UNION Farm and Garden Tool Display, Tom’sLidded Jars, LUX, Ihrid Potato Chip Tin, Many Old Cardboard Egg Cartons, Old DairyMilk Cones

Advertising Signs – Over 250 – Below Few ofthe General Store Signs:

Multiple WWII PatrioticPosters, Pepsi Cola 5 cents “Hits The Spot!”, Borax Extract of Soap, Squirtclock/sign, Red Man Chew, Red Man Chewing Tobacco, Salem, Chesterfield (large),Orphan Boy Tobacco, Lucky Strike, Phillip Morris, Beach Nut Chew, KresoDisinfectant, Vess Dry Ginger Ale, Nichol Cola, Pepsi Thermometer, Mail PouchTobacco, Bond Bread, Gunther Beer (2 signs & 1 clock), Esskay.

Other Fantastic Signs: Porcelain, Tin and Composite signs from all kinds ofag based companies including machinery, corn, tobacco, gas & oil, feed,seed - Tractor: Black John Deere –Deer Jumping Over Log; John Deere Quality Farm Equipment; John Deere 4 LeggedLogo Large Dealer sign; Massey Ferguson Dealer Building Sign; InternationalHarvester; Early McCormick Deering Dealer sign – NICE!; New Idea; W.T. TillarIH Dealer Sign; B.F. Goodrich Farm Tires; Pioneer & Homelite Chainsaws; EarlyMcCormick Machine Headquarters; Porcelain Goodyear Farm Tires; DeLaval; Ag, Feed & Seed: Purebred Holstein;Federal & Maola Dairy Products; Southern States Gas Pump Plates; SouthernStates Eggs For Sale sign; Carnation Feeds; Several Purina Feed Signs; SouthernStates; Dekalb; Burpee; Big Red; Red Rose; Royster Fertilizers; Purina PoultryChow; Wayne Feeds; Stull; Purina Turkey Feeds; St. Mary’s Co. Fair; CattleCrossing; Others: Large TexacoStation Sign; Esso Oval Dealer ID Sign; Texaco Fire Chief Pump Plates; Sinclair‘50’s Gas Pump with Globe; Camel; Chesterfield; Red Man; Marlboro; Coca Cola ButtonSign; Pepsi Bottle Cap; Just a partial listing – many more! See our catalog!

Misc: PiercedTin Coal Foot Warmer for Buggy Ride, Old Oyster Bucket – original old paint,glass window on top and perfect cond, Cigar Store Indian – not antique, but old& looks great!, Stimpsons scales with old original green paint, 1960’S JukeBox, General Store Cheese Cutter Wheel, Putnam Dyes (original paint), BrassMICHIGAN Cash Register, Old Wooden Ice Chest – galvanized lined, original greenpaint, too many Old Medicine and Flavoring Bottles to list, Old Post OfficeMailbox Divider, Walnut Drop-front Sales Clerk Desk, Steiner Coffee Mill –original paint and great condition, Multiple Fly/Wasp Catcher – somesun-purple, Tall Footed Philadelphia Coffee Grinder with Original Red Paint,Multiple Bubble Gum machines (not antique), Multiple General Store String/TwineDispensers – some figural, Tall Wood Heater, So Many Beautiful Butter molds,Old Mercury Glass Christmas Decorations, Multiple Old Wooden AdvertisingCases/Boxes, Old Wooden Box Cameras, Unusual Glass Ballot Box, hundreds ofPolitical and Advertising Buttons, Old Wooden Hinged Jewelry/Dresser/Cigar Box,Old Wooden Barrels, Kerosene Lanterns/Railroad Lanterns, Cow Bells – all sizes,Wooden Wall Phone, Baskets, Every Size Crock imaginable, Dresser Boxes:Wedgewood, porcelain, glass, Dresden Ladies, Perfume, Chicken Collectibles:cast Iron, glass, porcelain, hen-on-nests, salt & peppers, Old Jars of allSizes EVERYWHERE, egg cups, enamelware, splatterware, butter molds,

Cast Iron Toys/Salesman Samples: TREMENDOUS DISPLAY CASE FULL: Wonderful Complete& Impossible to find Stove/Pot and Pan Set, Little Black Sambo Bank, TinyCornbread Stick Pan, Well Pumps, Cauldrons, Multiple Stoves, Coffee Grinders,Amish Couple, Scales, Buckets

Tobacco Items: HUGE COLLECTION OF TOBACCOITEMS: Cigar Holders, Multiple Cigar Cutters, Many Wooden Cigar Molds,Cigarette Tip Display, White Mule Tobacco Twists, Multiple Bags of SmokingTobacco, Too Many Pipes to Count, Beach Nut, Camel, Star, Charter Hall,Everywhere you look – TOBACCO TINS: Stag, Big Ben, Kentucky Club, Lucky Strike, Tuxedo, Bull Durham,Sun-Kissed, Sir Walter Raleigh, Full Dress, Granger, George Washington,Sterling, Blue Boar, Bond Street, Plow Boy, Edgeworth, Ma-Yo’s Tobacco, Top,Penn’s Thin, Target, Coca-Cola: OriginalZinc Lined Cooler – original paint & wheels, Older Reproduction Cooler onWheels, Multiple Yellow Wooden Cases, Reproduction Hanging Wire Coke BottleHolders/Carts, Older Repro Coke Tray, Neckties, Glasses, Coke Bottles,Coca-Cola Memorabilia Book

Dry Goods: Many Pairs of Old Shoes: Children’sMen’s, Women’s, Multiple Old Hats, Paper Collars and Cuffs, Shoe Hooks – allkinds, Hair Pins, Suspenders, Buttons, Girdles, Shoe Laces, Old Catalogues, HatPins

Cast Iron Fireplace/Cookware: INCREDIBLE Huge, impressive collection: Multiple Muffin Tins – all shapes andsizes imaginable, Several Corn stick pans – again, all shapes and sizes,Kettles, frying pans – all sizes; huge to tiny, fireplace tools, popcorn popperwith crank handle, long-handled frying pans, cauldrons, match holders, cowboycookers, footed pans, griddles- all sizes, kettles, deep pots, lidded pots,andirons, tall spit, old kitchen utensils, old operating cast iron stovesEVERYWHERE!

Kitchen: More than a Dozen Fabulous Primitive Dough Bowls, Primitive Mortar andPestle made from Stump for Corn Mashing/Grinding, Copper Kettles and Pots – allsizes, Oak Pie Safe, Wooden Rolling Pins, Whiskey Jugs, Enamel Coffee Pots, OldMild Jugs, Wooden Crocks, GlassJuicers, Sieves, Sifters, Pie Birds (4 & 20 ready to bake in a pie),creamers, sifters,

Furniture: Old Hoosier Cabinets- some with all original jars, Butcher Block Tables– large and small, Juke Box, Stainless Steel Tables, Butcher Block SS Tables,Tall Hardwood Kitchen Cabinet with original patina, pulls and old wavy glass