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Lot 48: An Assortment of Antique Hand Tools and Modern DIY Supplies
An assortment of antique hand tools and modern DIY supplies, featuring a varied collection of manual woodworking and maintenance equipment alongside contemporary building consumables. The lot includes three antique wooden rebate or moulding planes of primitive construction, exhibiting historical flight holes and significant patina. A manual hand drill with turned wooden handles and a geared mechanism is present, showing heavy oxidation and surface rust. The tool collection is further comprised of several wood chisels with both blue plastic and turned wooden handles, a large steel pry bar, a claw hammer with a wooden shaft, a small red-framed spirit level, a pointed plastering trowel, and a pair of steel pincers. Precision engineering is represented by a micrometer caliper housed in a fitted wooden case, featuring a readable scale for decimal equivalents including .5, .25, .125, and .0625.
The modern hardware components include a cardboard box containing various PVC and plastic plumbing fittings, elbows, and grey pipe sections, alongside two black plastic gutter connectors bearing adhesive labels for Hunter Surefit. Electrical supplies feature a 15m reel of speaker cable in original Micromark packaging, a galvanised steel electrical back box, and a used double wall socket faceplate with handwritten ink annotations including Side 45 and 1060 long. Decorating materials include a five-pack of 9 inch paint roller sleeves in 4Trade retail packaging and a louvre vent in Map Hardware packaging. Two plastic-cased screwdriver and socket sets complete the assortment.
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