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Ledge Rat

Trad climber

Michigan

Feb 3, 2018 - 07:09am PT

Received my items yesterday. I wasn’t expecting them to be so minty fresh, thanks again Paula!

Jeff

karabin museum

Trad climber

phoenix, az

Feb 7, 2018 - 07:27am PT

Todays postage box at my front door was from Paula! Yeah! First of all thanks Paula for sharing your climbing artifacts with the collectors. Your items found great homes! Thanks also for the extras you threw in for the museum!

Looking closer at a few of the items………The three Holubar horizontal pitons are totally awesome! I am so psyched to have the set! The bonus is the piton in the photo on the right has a round eye while the other two have oval eyes. Until now I have only seen these pitons with oval eyes. Circa early 1960s? (1950s?). Within the pitons were a few LONGware pitons. Looking closer at the spoon piton it is unmarked but looks closest to a LONGware circa 1957-1963.

I assumed the piton with the midway twisted blade was either a Simond or a Charlet Moser, but it turns out to be a Alf Bhend Grindelwald, made in Switzerland. I have not seen this piton until now. I love the super large piton eye that a quarter easily passes through. A little mangled but nice to have. Circa 1950s/1960s.

I contacted Paula a second time and was surprised that she still had a few items left. So I shopped again which was good because I overlooked the two first generation Leeper hangers in the pile of hangers. Leeper began making his hangers with small carabiner hole and square bottom cut Circa 1962. Leeper added the extra bottom cut in 1964 so the hangers now had small carabiner hole and angle bottom cut. What is unique about these two Leeper hangers in Paulas collection is that there is a extra cut on the top of the hanger. The long angle vertical cut was not created yet. Paulas two Leeper hangers predate the 1962 Leeper hanger that Ed Leeper donated to the museum. This Leeper hanger is also shown in the 1965 Eiger catalog.

The tiny piton I originally assumed it was 1957 LONGware because in Paulas photo it looks dark. But now having the piton at home, the piton is totally polished shiny super stainless steel(?) and looks exactly the same as Dolt Bits and Jacks. My guess is that this is a Dolt product. Another Dolt prototype amongst the many many others Dolt created, circa 1967/68.

The newest items in Paulas lot is the Chouinard Crack N’ Ups 1975. The oldest item may be this Fritsch and Cie piton circa late 1940s/1950s.