How to Buy or Sell — Tools

A few tools hung on the wall as sculptural decorations are often seen in the decorating magazines and websites. Old tools can be sold to any friend or antiques dealer. There are also many serious tool collectors who specialize in one type of tool, such as wrenches or planes, or who have large general collections. […]

How to Buy or Sell — Writing Utensils

Pens, automatic pencils, ink bottles, inkwells, typewriters, and many other devices connected with writing are being collected. In the 1980s, early pens and the plastic-cased pens of the 1920s through the 1950s became of interest to collectors. Lewis Edson Waterman held multiple fountain pen patents, the first in 1884. The first ballpoint pen was patented […]