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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Toolemera, post: 161369, member: 2654&quot;]Greetings all! I may or may not have been a member of this forum in years past. The older I get, the more I forget.</p><p><br /></p><p>In brief, I&#039;m a retired research librarian, counselor, woodworker, &amp;c. Life long bookman and old tools collector. For a good part of this life I&#039;ve also been a dealer in, you guessed it, old tools and old books. </p><p><br /></p><p>In retirement (my last employer offered medical disability and I took it, packed up and left in four days) I have embarked on a new life as a full time antiques dealer. Two booths in local shops keep me busy. I also buy and sell on Ebay, since way back when. Recently, on a dare, I started a Facebook group: Antique Tools, Buy, Sell &amp; Trade which is doing quite well with minimal interference from myself and the other admins.</p><p><br /></p><p>My areas of interest are early tools, books and ephemera of crafts, trades and industries. Living now in a one bedroom apartment, I am seriously unloading what is left of the various collections. It was my habit to pack up a pickup truck with boxes of stuff every five years and either tailgate or auction it all off, then start again. I am now less attached to Stuff than before and happily so.</p><p><br /></p><p>My domicile is in Wilmington, North Carolina where the weather is better than the northeast, the fishing is good and the beaches are better.</p><p><br /></p><p>My sanity is maintained by a one man publishing outfit known as The Toolemera Press, with the adjunct Toolemera Antiques for my brick and mortar stuff. Mostly I re-publish books and trade catalogs from my own collection with the rare production of something from an association or from a friend. Rarely. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s me.</p><p>Gary[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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