In seven 4 drawer filing cabinets. Sales literature from 1920 to 2010...everything from Cataract/Leblond/Hardinge/Atlas/TOS/Emco/Mori Seiki, etc, etc lathes to SIP/Deckel/Bridgeport/Cincinatti,K&T, etc, etc.. mills to 1970's NC machines to 1980's and beyond CNC. Mostly USA machine tools but lots of German, Eastern Bloc, Japanese and Taiwanese as well. Some manuals, but 95 percent sales brochures.
Reason for selling is I'm moving to a new house in a couple of weeks and don't need them for research like I used to.
Trouble is folks are going to pester me as to what exactly is in there and that would be waaaay too much trouble with the move and all. I doubt there is any domestic or Japanese machine tool builder not represented in the files. I even have 1970's Japanese machine tool trade show books. I suppose I could take a video opening drawers to at least see the names on the files.
Cabinets (good quality, deep type) were bought new in 2000 and still pristine as new...replacement cost on the cabinets alone $2,000+ Can pay the moving company to take them to the shop and can palletize for freight. But with so much digitized on the web these days will anyone even want the entire lot ? Would be years of selling them individually on eBay might be worth it for someone...or not... thoughts ?
Reason for selling is I'm moving to a new house in a couple of weeks and don't need them for research like I used to.
Trouble is folks are going to pester me as to what exactly is in there and that would be waaaay too much trouble with the move and all. I doubt there is any domestic or Japanese machine tool builder not represented in the files. I even have 1970's Japanese machine tool trade show books. I suppose I could take a video opening drawers to at least see the names on the files.
Cabinets (good quality, deep type) were bought new in 2000 and still pristine as new...replacement cost on the cabinets alone $2,000+ Can pay the moving company to take them to the shop and can palletize for freight. But with so much digitized on the web these days will anyone even want the entire lot ? Would be years of selling them individually on eBay might be worth it for someone...or not... thoughts ?
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