RARE 19TH\C BEE SMOKER..GRADUATED CONE…QUIMBY …MINT

May 31, 2021 - Comment

FOLKS ….AT ONE TIME WE WERE COMMERCIAL BEEKEEPERS, FOR 45 YEARS….RETIRED …BECAME COLLECTORS OF ANTIQUE BEE STUFF …HAD HUNDREDS OF SMOKERS ….PAUL JACKSON WHO WROTE THE SMOKER BOOK BOUGHT SOME OF OUR COLLECTION FOR HIS BOOK … THIS IS ONE OF THE FINEST 19THC SMOKERS WE EVER FOUND …THIS CAME OUT OF AN ANCIENT MAINE

FOLKS ….AT ONE TIME WE WERE COMMERCIAL BEEKEEPERS, FOR 45 YEARS….RETIRED …BECAME COLLECTORS OF ANTIQUE BEE STUFF …HAD HUNDREDS OF SMOKERS ….PAUL JACKSON WHO WROTE THE SMOKER BOOK BOUGHT SOME OF OUR COLLECTION FOR HIS BOOK … THIS IS ONE OF THE FINEST 19THC SMOKERS WE EVER FOUND …THIS CAME OUT OF AN ANCIENT MAINE BARN THIS SPRING ….CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT …THE GRADUATED CONE ….CAST IRON CONE HINGE….THE LEATHER IS PERFECT ….SO GOOD THE THIN LEATHER STRIP THAT HOLDS THE BELLOWS LEATHER IS ALL THERE AND GOOD ….NO HOLES CRACKS CRACKS ….NUTHIN …I THINK IT’S A QUIMBY ….THIS PIECE WAS SO WELL CARED FOR THE METAL WAS OILED FOR PRESERVATION….SCARY GOOD ….MEASURES 12″ TALL ….YOU WON’T FIND A BETTER EXAMPLE …..PLEASE ASK AND TAKE CARE …

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