'"Antique Trader" Tool Price Guide' features 700 large colour photos and 2,000 listings of tools from the late 18th century through the middle of the 20th century, with actual prices from recent tool auctions. It covers advertising, displays, salesman's samples, ephemera, tool-related art, books, catalogues, magazines, manuals, and photos, braces, bits, drills, edged tools, hammers, levels and inclinometers, machinery, planes and scrapers, rules, squares and gauges, saws, scientific, drafting, engineering surveying, and technical instruments, special use and miscellaneous tools, tool chest and benches.

About the Author

Clarence Blanchard is the president of Antique & Collectible Tools Inc., the corporation that owns Fine Tool Journal and Brown Auction Services. He is a leading expert in antique tools and their value and president of Brown Auction Services for nearly 10 years. Currently, the International Antique Tool Auction holds the world record at auction prices for nearly every type of antique tool.