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Roots
Mountain climber
Redmond, Oregon
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Jan 24, 2018 - 09:49am PT
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My opinion:
The problem I have with 'post your offers' is it's easy to add another dollar(s) to someone else's bid.
OP - please post your sale prices and let the first in line determine if they want to pay it...
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H
Mountain climber
there and back again
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Jan 24, 2018 - 01:06pm PT
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Seems like Marty's offer is pretty generous.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jan 24, 2018 - 03:52pm PT
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PaulaAnn: I want to mention when you look at climbing gear listings on EBay, especially if you do more selective searches like Chouinard, there are folks listing gear, who way over-estimate its value. I prefer to search the Sold category, which shows what folks are actually paying for that gear. Here’s a link to Chouinard Sold listings for the last 90 days.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/Outdoor-Sports/159043/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=chouinard&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684
Second, there are sellers that do a very-good job of photographing & describing old gear & those who don’t.
Third, there are those who start their gear auctions at what most serious collectors would think is a reasonable price, and those who don’t.
And then there are the EBay gear sellers who have a following of folks who trust them. The number of knowledgeable old climbing gear collectors, who have any money, is surprisingly tiny. You are seeing many of them on this thread.
So -----there have been some great offers made here by folks I know, trust, & like, Steve Grossman & Marty at the Karabine Museum, & others like Roots, who I also know, trust, & like, want you to quote prices.
If you are willing to sell this collection on EBay, you will do way-better if you break it down into batches of 5 or less pieces per auction, use the most reasonable possible shipping method, & follow my other suggestions above.
Final offer from me on the photo of pitons & carabiners. Per the circled items in the below photo, take the wonderful offers from my friends on those items. The spoonbill piton at bottom center has offers from both Steve Grossman & Marty at the Karabine Museum. Steve is also interested in one of the shiny carabiners at top, if it says Alcoa on it.
I'll take the other shiny carabiner & everything else in that photo that is not circled, for $200.00. Please email me for free advice. In my link to sold Chouinard listings, the first two pitons were sold by me, so I do know what I am doing.
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ClimbingOn
Trad climber
NY
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Jan 24, 2018 - 05:08pm PT
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I think another problem you're running into, as far as getting offers, is folks don't like posting offers publicly and the Supertopo PM feature does not work. If you post your e-mail address, I'd send an offer on some of the pitons and perhaps other gear.
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Gregory Brown
Trad climber
NV
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Jan 25, 2018 - 08:20am PT
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This post is from PaulaAnn:
First let me say thank you to all the people here with extremely helpful posts. And I apologize for not responding in a timely manner. I made a mistake in changing my account email and have lost my login access via my original account. Thus I am posting this reply from a different account until I can recover mine.
Here is my email address - gb4pcmd@icloud.com . Please email me directly. I think that some offers are fair and reasonable and I would like to move forward with those. I now realize that I need to have a solid idea of what are reasonable starting offers for selling this gear. Thank you all for your positive contributions and helpful posts.
PaulaAnn
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Roots
Mountain climber
Redmond, Oregon
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Jan 25, 2018 - 08:43am PT
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PaulaAnn - email sent : )
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 25, 2018 - 09:16am PT
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Message also sent.
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Roots
Mountain climber
Redmond, Oregon
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Jan 26, 2018 - 08:54am PT
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This seems to be a good place to share a little story:
After buying the fund raiser Diamond Piton a while back, Bonnie suggested I call Dave to talk about his and Bob’s famous climb. During the conversation, I asked him about these mysterious wooden chocks. He couldn’t recall much as he had a stroke and was consequently “locked up” in a home.
How I even heard of them was about a year prior to that, a European collector asked me if Orange Wood was available in the US. If it was, he wanted me to ship him some so he and a friend could make reproductions of these wooden gems.
Honestly, I hadn’t heard of Orange Wood either (let alone the chocks). But a quick internet search led me to Ebay where it was being sold in brick like pieces to people that make ink pens for writing. Orange Osage is the proper name. I bought 7 lbs of it. The wood was a beautiful color and dipped in wax to help preserve it. Very pretty and surprisingly very dense.
The Orange Osage was shipped across the Atlantic, but I still have not received any reproduced samples. This ST offering has reminded me that I need to follow up. However, I can’t help wondering how they would know the dimensions if 'no one' has them in their collections...
If you can, after whomever is able to acquire the chocks; please send me the dimensions and the type of wood(s) yours is made from and I will pass the information along to the wood shop elves in Europe. Not the best way to go about preserving our climbing history but at least we can have a few reproductions to supplement the limited quantity of originals.
I’m always around; rockcairn [at] hot mail [dot] com
Thank you!
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Roots
Mountain climber
Redmond, Oregon
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Jan 29, 2018 - 10:41am PT
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An ST collector was kind enough to measure their set:
I quickly measured the set of Rearick plugs. Measurements are in millimeters. Wood type is an educated guess for 3 smaller ones. It is possible one plug is missing between the dark colored and the next one. Notice that the measurement of diameter2 is roughly equal the diameter1 of the next smaller size.
Diameter1 Diameter2 Length Wood
72 64 95 Osage Orange
63 56 83 Osage Orange
54 47 77 Osage Orange
47 41 70 ?? Dark maybe Mahogany
36 32 53 ?? Oak
32 27 48 ?? Oak
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PaulaAnn
Trad climber
NV
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2018 - 07:07pm PT
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Thanks to everyone who bought gear. I had a great time hearing from so many interesting people. The sale is now closed with the bulk of the gear sold.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Jan 31, 2018 - 04:52am PT
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Thanks PaulaAnn for the fun! Adding more pitons to the Karabin Museum.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jan 31, 2018 - 11:07am PT
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I guess no kiss and tell? oh well. Still, can some one please flesh this out a bit; What is the vintage? where do they hail from? I'm curious about the 'not rup s'the one that Fritz has in red and the three at the bottom, small pegs? the ones with the round 'eye's'? is the square one a - "dolt jack?" inquiring minds, & all.
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Michael Forney
Trad climber
55114
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Jan 31, 2018 - 02:47pm PT
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The Wooden Chocks were made by Dave Rearick of Osage Orange wood. A climbing partner named Rob Ryan had a bunch of these that we used in the Gunks in the mid 1970's. They were beautiful and to my surprise were quite secure.
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TomMc
Trad climber
Massachusetts
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Jan 31, 2018 - 02:50pm PT
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Wow! People pay good money for this old gear? I'm going up to the attic and digging out all my 1960's-1970's racks and ice gear to see what I've got. Time to move stuff on before I move on myself.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Jan 31, 2018 - 07:23pm PT
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One mans trash is another mans treasure! Yes all of the items in this lot are great collectables. Even the Chouinard pitons are 1960s vintage. Great stuff! I bid high on the three circled Holubar pitons because they are not so easy to find. Two years ago on ebay the pointed Holubar piton in the group of three alone went for over 200.00. These three pitons now puts me at 32 different Holubar pitons.
The spoon blade piton is unmarked but is probably a CCB, but there are also a few LONGware items in the lot. Regardless, I wanted the spoon because it looks like a Friday piton. Where the worker at the shop at quitting time didn't trim the piton and just threw it in the finished pile. It looks mushed and I love it!
I also got the LONGware(?) tiny piton. Don Lauria years ago told me that Dolt designed his company logo from the shape of this LONGware tiny piton. So this piton and the large LONGware bong in the lot date 1957-1963 era.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jan 31, 2018 - 07:28pm PT
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Marty! Thanks for sharing your wins. It was a tough bidding crowd, but I'm glad most of them are friends.
And PaulaAnn put up with it all, with good humor, or at least she was nice to me.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jan 31, 2018 - 07:53pm PT
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thank you! Congratulations on the score, did "Roots" get some booty too?
it was a few years ago, a poster named Gunks Jessie?(I think) had seemingly found access to a cache of gear in the Gunks. Did any of you get in on that? was it the T Shuer, horde or from a barn that was once only approachable through the front yard of Thoms house? The next point is that I would be willing to inquire after the trinkets of my youth, but i have no intention or ability to buy any thing that might still reside in the barn.
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Roots
Mountain climber
Redmond, Oregon
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Gnome - thanks for asking. I was able to acquire the Swiss hammer. Which I am pleased about as it appears to have been Jene's personal hammer...Paula is going to find out more of its history soon.
Also, I hear some of the wooden chocks will make their way to my collection in a short while.
Cool collection and thankful it was made available to us.
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SuperTopo on the Web
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I am interested in these three pitons......$200
Let us know!