Bidspirit auction | Vintage Millers Falls and Machinist

Vintage Millers Falls and Machinist Tools, Tobacco Ephemera, and Advertising - The collection consists of items, primarily vintage measuring instruments, smoking accessories, and related ephemera. This diverse lot includes industrial steel calipers and dividers, some visibly marked MILLERS FALLS CO GREENFIELD MASS. USA. These tools display heavy construction consistent with machinist and drafting use. Also present is a brass-cased pocket compass with a hinged lid and a wood and brass plumb bob wrapped with cord. The tobacco and smoking accessories feature advertising lighters, including examples marked Camel, Chesterfield (Continental, Japan), Olt's Bar Company, and Tareyton Dual Filter, along with a plain metal lighter. The lot contains sealed cardboard packs of MarsHero Lights cigarettes and MarsHero Shock Toy Cigarette Cases. Additional items include a opened Camel tin, a gold-tone hammered metal match safe featuring a textured surface and a horse head applique, and a large, high-gloss burl wood humidor marked ORLEANS GROUP on the base, Made in Vietnam. Writing materials include a cased two-piece polished metal pen set housed in a wooden box, twenty-a wood pencils (inside a wooden box and loose) marked THE BLACKFEET INDIAN PENCIL, and related wooden boxes. Miscellaneous items include a Ronica Quartz wristwatch featuring a horse racing dial and a woven strap, sealed Elks playing card decks, a small box of playing cards, collectible Wills's Cigarettes rose trading cards (depicting rose varieties such as Mrs. Bertram J. Walker and Premier), a 1960 Mercury sales brochure, a green, leaf-shaped metal sign reading CARS LOVE SHELL mounted on a white stand, a small clear plastic box containing fishing lures/weights, and decorative metal pinecone-shaped objects. Humidor Burns in-house shipping is available. Pick up is Friday, Jan. 30 from Noon to 7 pm at our gallery in Lancaster, Ohio 43130 or we will provide in-house shipping for this item. We will charge a $5 fee if you want to pick this lot up another day. Once packed up we will send you an invoice for shipping & handling. Shipping questions: shipping@burnsbid.com. Sales tax is collected on this auction. AB270