Larry Right you are... I just scanned it that part of the photo at 600 dpi and it is Peerless...... funny how the "P" just looked like an "L" with my loupe..... Oh well I can't see like I use too.... I also probably thought they would have bought him the best?.... and Levins were more expensive than a Peerless..... no wonder that plane went down... they skimped on a lathe...

Mudflap A lot of this find was pure luck..... At this auction were lots of strange little things, tools, tiny drills, tubing, screws... you name it. Now at most sales this stuff brings junk prices in box lots and that is the way it was this day.... so I bought a bunch. Filled most of the back of my little station wagon.... when I got it back to the shop I put it all on a table and started to open every little packet and sort it in with my stuff that is kept in pretty good order. I think a lot of guys would have just put whole boxes of this stuff on their shelves..... it was this practice of opening everything that caused me to find truly a needle in a haystack.

As for the research and sharing part...... I like to know about what I find and have.... the only problem with that is the more you learn, the more stuff you want to go out and get. And what fun is to have something if you can't share it with other interested folks.......