"Reclaimed Iron Cogs" on Ebay UK

Not on familiar territory here, but could those splines be ?Colchester-ish?

The smallest is stamped "30B", didn't manage to successfully count the largest..

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Apologies if this is a clumsy link, just thought they might be of interest to someone..

An hour since posting? I thought they would be gone by now - even if someone was going to turn out the centres and fit different bushes!

DP can likely even be worked out from his rough measurements. Appear to be 16DP?

Will they, I wonder, soon start appearing in the ‘for sale’ list?

..knew I should have bought them.. ..next time you see them they'll be £150..

The centres looked a bit Colchester like, someone recognised them and got them for £45 plus postage. I have occasionally stumbled upon items which others have missed and got bargains.

I may be being a little over-cautious here, and I don't want to unfairly slur anyone, but I am slightly unsettled by someone selling something with such value for so little as they don't know what it is. Surely the original owner wouldn't have let them just go for peanuts, unless it was a poorly carried out bereavement sale or similar?

The rest of that sellers items appear to be cast iron items, possibly sifted from a scrap heap before smelting?

Maybe I'm being a worrywart.

There's a fine line between value and junk. Those gears are only worth money if they're Colchester and at least two people want them! As I don't have a Colchester, or anything else the gears could be usefully modified to fit, their value to me is zero. (Be very annoying to buy them for a lathe, only to find they're specials from a 1938 sewage mincer.)

Bereavement sales are delicate areas. When the owner of a fine workshop dies, it's always possible his executors won't be interested in playing shops, or have the time needed to find appreciative buyers. They might call a House Clearance company, or a scrap merchant, as a way of clearing the house in the shortest possible time. One reason I like Far Eastern tools is I don't care what happens to them when I'm gone!

My dear old dad was a holy terror, completely unaware that books and objects might be valuable. Mum came home one day to find an heirloom bookcase and contents gone because Dad had decided the room was 'tidier' without them. Not sold as an antique in excellent condition, taken to the tip with a few hundred pounds worth of hardbacks. And then the room had to be redecorated because the un-faded wall-paper behind the bookcase didn't match the rest...

I'm afraid most people are barbarians!

Dave

A while back I know of someone (on here) who caught an early BIN price for a machine at a ridiculously good price - and resold it, shortly afterwards, for getting on for a thousand percent profit, as I recall.

There are some bargains out there. This may have been one of them.

Edited By not done it yet on 20/12/2019 16:10:44

Jon, ...it's also not uncommon for that sort of thing to get separated at auctions or estate sales, where neither vendor, auctioneer, or sometimes even purchaser actually knows what any of the lots actually are..