🔨 Primitive & Vintage Tool Collection Auction

Toby Bowman Collection (Julia Bowman, Owner)
819 Market Street Aberdeen, Ohio 45101o

🗓 Three-Day Auction – 9:00 AM Each Day

• Wednesday – April 22, 2026 (Household Only – NO TOOLS SOLD THIS DAY)
• Friday – April 24, 2026 (Primitive & Specialty Collections)
• Saturday – April 25, 2026 (Tool Collection, Vehicles & Equipment)

🏠 WEDNESDAY – APRIL 22 – HOUSEHOLD, CROCKS & COLLECTIBLES

(No tools sold Wednesday)

Sale held under large tent, bring your chairs| 

🪑 Furniture & Large Items

• Knockdown wardrobe
• Ornate hall trees & unique wall tree
• 2 secretaries (one believed from Brown County Courthouse)
• Ornate wood desk/work table
• Child’s rocker & baby cradle
• Oak Ice box
• Wooden dresser & beds
• Oval wood table & pedestal tables
• Spinning wheel
• Wood trunks
• Old barber chair
• Floor lamps

🏺 Stoneware, Crocks & Jugs

Large multi-state collection including:

• #5 Red Wing jug
• Bee Sting crocks & jugs
• Greensboro, PA crocks
• Maysville, KY jugs
• Cincinnati, OH jugs (includes 2 Benjamin crocks)
• Parkersburg, WV jug
• Roseville, OH pottery
• Grasse, IL arsenate crock
• Numerous marked advertising crocks & whiskey jugs
• Manchester, Ohio crock

🍼 Bottles, Tins & Advertising

• Mason’s 1858 ½ gallon jar
• Madison ½ pint milk bottle
• Dairy bottles (Dayton, Hillsboro, Georgetown & more)
• Red Cap Coffee tin
• National Biscuit Co. jar
• Burma Shave jar
• Winston Racing & cigarette display items
• Ringling Bros advertising
• Beer signs, draft handles & Budweiser light
• Pabst lighted neon sign
• 6-pack Coca-Cola advertising carrier

🕰 Lamps, Glassware & Décor

• Pink Depression glass lamps (RE Smith Glass Co.)
• Oil lamps & jade lamp
• Depression glass candy dishes
• Miniature oil lamps
• Cast iron banks & ashtrays
• Brass school bells
• Avon bottles
• Figurines & statues (Laurel & Hardy, bartender statue)

📚 Miscellaneous Collectibles

• 1876 Brown County Atlas
• 1942–57 World Atlas
• Fountain pens & inkwells
• 1950 chauffeur license pin
• Star Wars Monopoly set
• Betty Boop & Little Mermaid lunch boxes
• Ertl toy tractor
• Daisy BB gun
• Old razors & shaving kits
• Quilts (Dresden Plate & others)

🔥 FRIDAY – APRIL 24

Primitives, Specialty Collections & Unusual Antiques

⚙️ Blacksmith & Early Trade Tools

• Swages, fullers, flatters & cutters
• Blacksmith tongs
• Small anvils
• Forge blower
• Bellows
• Branding irons
• Ice saw
• Horse bits
• Planishing hammer

🪓 Axes, Hatchets & Edge Tools (Sold Individually & in Small Groups)

• 250+ Broad Axes (at least 100 on Friday)
• Embossed axes including Plumb, Keen Kutter, OVB, Winchester, Stanley, Kelly, Boy Scout
• Fireman’s axes
• Ice axes
• B&O & North & Western RR axes
• Stanley hatchets
• Miniature broad axes

🪚 Woodworking & Cooper’s Tools

Woodworking & Cooper’s Tools

 Large molding plane collection (Ohio Tool & others)

 Stanley Bedrocks & specialty planes (#2, #2 Sweetheart, #10 carriage maker’s

 rabbet,#50, #55 w/blades, #71, #92, #95, #113, #118, #140, #148, #203, etc.)

Plow plane collection (including ivory tipped examples)

Violin rabbet & combination planes

Haines Patent Thickness Gauge

Hag’s Tooth router plane

Draw knives & miniature draw knife collection

Spokeshaves (including unusual examples)

Cabinet scrapers

Wooden braces, augers & Russell Jennings bit sets (boxed)

Breast drills

Corner braces

Dovetailed carpenter boxes

🧰 Wrenches & Mechanical Tools Collection

• The Prince Wrench (Lowentraut Patent)
• Diamond Brand miniature crescents
• B&O 6” & 8” tools
• Wescott adjustable wrenches
• Blackhawk cutout wrench
• King Kutter square nut remover
• Brass adjustable ratchet
• Roller chain break
• Bicycle wrenches
• Pipe wrenches including 48” aluminum Rigid
• Bulldog nail puller
• Huge nail puller
• Antique pipe vise

🚂 Railroad & Industrial

• Pyle-National steam locomotive classification light
• Railroad hatchets & pick hammers
• Cast iron RR memorabilia
• Oil cans & brass fire nozzle
• Ooga car horn

🩺 Medical / Dental / Scientific

• Dental burrs (mailed to Dr. H.E. Drake, Lebanon, Ohio)
• Bone saw & cutter
• Pill masher & bowl
• Lab vacuum pump
• Stainless meat cutting gloves

🕯 Cast Iron, Advertising & Curiosities

• Keen Kutter waffle maker
• Cast iron stoves & miniatures
• Match holders (including Keen Kutter)
• Cast iron bookends
• Soldiers, animals & banks
• Advertising anvils
• Movie theater “Thespian” art
• Enterprise cherry picker
• Cast iron grainer pigment grinder

🚗 SATURDAY – APRIL 25

Vehicles, Large Equipment & Remaining Tool Collection

🚘 Vehicles

• 1953 Chrysler 350 SBC(Built), auto, Nitrous bottle in truck, custom paint/interior
• 1965 Ford Mustang 289, auto
• 1974 MGB 4spd, convertible
• Electric Cushman cart
• Horse Drawn buggy

🛠 Remaining Tool Highlights

• Massive broadaxe collection (remaining lots)
• Remaining wood planes, Stanley, Bedrock, Union, etc
• Miniature vises & small vise collection
• Miniature measuring wheel w/leather case
• Watchmaker tools
• Wood carving tools (boxed set)
• Miniature grindstone
• Pattern maker’s mallet
• Large sledge hammers
• Dog head sawyer hammers (3 examples)
• Knapping hammers
• Sugar Devils
• Adzes (including bowl adze)
• Froes
• Slicks & chisels
• Travelers wheels
• Hay knives & hooks

⚙️ Shop Equipment

• Small pedestal gas-operated Coleman grinder
• Pipe vise
• Metal scales
• Stove pipe crimper
• Wooden clamps

Cobblers, Broom Makers & Specialty Trades

• Cobbler’s tools & nail cups
• Broom maker’s vises & hammers
• Slater’s tools
• Tobacco cutters (Enterprise & others)
• Super Plug cutter
• Corn shellers (Gray Bros Louisville, Enterprise)
• Corn sheller wrench (Blackhawk)
• Flax spinning wheel
• Barrel bung tools
• Large Wood work bench w/vise

Additional Miscellaneous

• 1800s corn knife & sword
• Airplane propeller
• Cast iron tea kettles, griddles & skillets
• Copper wash boilers
• Splatter ware coffee pots
• Advertising thermometers
• Wooden nickels (Lynchburg, Ohio 1966, Donohau Pharmacy Georgetown Oh)
• Ancient Order of United Workers plaque
• Polish Armed Guard brass belt buckle

📌 Important Notes

• NO TOOLS SOLD ON WEDNESDAY
• Auction begins promptly at 9:00 AM each day
• Come Friday and Saturday because day assignments are subject to change
• Angela’s Curbside Cuisine Food vendor on site
• Announcements day of sale take precedence
• Not responsible for accidents or loss of property
• Cash or Good Check only

This is the lifetime collection of Toby Bowman, a passionate collector of primitive and trade tools — truly a “have to see to believe” event.

Owner: Julia Bowman

DISCLAIMER: Announcements made auction day take precedence over any previous notification. ID required to register for buyer’s number. Payment made at end of day EACH auction day with cash or good check with proper I.D. No Credit Cards

All sold “as is, where is” with no guarantees.

Prospective buyers should avail themselves the opportunity to make inspection of personal property prior to bidding.  All Property sells in "as is condition". 

Our company and the Seller(s) are not responsible for accidents or loss of property

Mike Brown & Associates, LLC, Auctioneers

Mike Brown, Auctioneer

Randy Dugan, Auctioneer

Mike Ames, Auctioneer

Mark Lail, Auctioneer