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NV - Virginia City,Storey County - c1890 - Antique Tools

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:125.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 500.00 USD
NV - Virginia City,Storey County - c1890 - Antique Tools
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Lot of antique tools and ephemera from the Bowman family of Virginia City. These tools were made by or belonged to Virginia City machinist E. Biddle. Some of the tools are gang punched with his name, including at least two pieces that are marked “Patent”. This group consists of two large boards about two by three feet each containing about thirty tools each, plus separate pieces. The tools are for woodworking and machining. There are also two matted photographs of Biddle and his machine shop interior about 1890. Biddle was born in New York in 1835, the son of Canadian immigrants. His shop in Virginia City ran for at least two decades.