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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jul 21, 2017 - 07:19am PT
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Marty
Do you have any idea where this mystery harness is from? It looks like it's very pre Swami and Troll Whillans.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Jul 21, 2017 - 09:05pm PT
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Marlow - Did you win that ebay auction? I bid on it but lost it. I was most interested in that curved nut that was in the lot. My impression of the harness is that it is some kind of Army surplus item. Brass ends on the harness tails. I am not sure who makes the harness but it looks like 1960s/early 1970s. Also who makes the piton that is hiding under the Clog piton. It has a oval eye but the front tip is flat. Is it just a sawed off Simond? I did however win the second ebay lot from the same seller that is filled with bizarre nuts possibly homemade.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jul 21, 2017 - 11:26pm PT
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Hi Marty.
Congrats with the auction you won. It was a fantastic collection of old equipment. I did not participate in that one.
I won the auction you have the photo from. I wonder when the army started making climbing harnesses. Do you know if they made their own harnesses before Swami, Troll Whillans etc?
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Jul 22, 2017 - 01:03am PT
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Jul 22, 2017 - 07:38am PT
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Marlow - so on ebay you are buyer y***r. I purposely bid low on the first auction that you won to throw off the bidders on the second auction. I am curious to see what that other hidden piton is. The harness I am guessing is some kind of Army thing since it has the brass ends on the harness tails. I am not sure if it is Army or who made it. It may be created for construction inspection purposes as well. Maybe a fireman used it with your mystery carabiner to clip into the truck ladder rig. Very nice item for sure! Maybe Steve has seen one of these. I will share pics of the second auction when I receive the items. I think most of the nuts in it are homemade but are very unique to the year they were created.
Nutstory - Very cleaver thinking on Charlet Mosers part with the ice screw slot. But could you not do the same thing by just putting the pick end into the ice screw loop to turn the ice screw? Or would that possibly damage the pick?
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Jul 22, 2017 - 07:50am PT
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Or would that possibly damage the pick? Yes, you are right, it was the best way to break the pick.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Jul 22, 2017 - 08:00am PT
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Nutstory - Thanks! I am experienced in collecting ice tools, not very experienced in climbing ice. When I moved from Michigan to Arizona, by that time I had enough of the snow. I for sure am a dry desert rat!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jul 22, 2017 - 08:34am PT
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Marty.
I will send you photos of the curved nut on this thread. I think there was one or more identically curved nuts in the collection you bought.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jul 31, 2017 - 11:08am PT
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Salewa. What's the name of the model?
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Jul 31, 2017 - 10:40pm PT
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Marlow - Out of the hundreds of different sliders I have in the museum, I don't have any of those Salewa devices. I just received my box of homemade nuts from eBay. I will post a picture soon. I saw the old pitons and Simond pitons selling on eBay but had no money to bid. Looks like you won a few of the lots. I am amazed that the two Simond pitons sold for over $250.00
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Patent EP 47232B1
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Nutstory
Great to see all three sizes and the prototype. TFPU!
Marty
Escalation of commitment is one possible outcome during an auction.
I think we in the photos you see above find one size 1 and two size 3. If so, I can send you one size 3. One out of three ain't bad - as a start.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Here's a photo of the two old British nuts including the curved one
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Marlow - I will for sure take you up on your offer for that #3 Salewa slider. I have been dreaming of having one of the them in my museum since Stephane showed me what they looked like back in the late 1990s. So very cool! So very very cool!!!
Nice curved homemade nut! On the set I have from that same auction I was surprised that only one side of the nut was angled where the nut could have been placed in two directions. I should have time to post pictures tomorrow.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Marlow - Here is the other part of that British auction of nuts. Beautiful set for sure. Along with the homemade nuts is a few first edition Clog Hexagons (no oval stamp), Troll Spuds where one of the cord holes is drilled in the wrong direction, Clog single hole wedge, very early I believe Hiatt steel oval karabiner, and a 1980 Chouinard/Camp wired Stopper. Besides the 1980 Stopper all of the other nuts look like late 1960s vintage.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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On a different British auction I won these homemade pitons vintage around late 1960s. Nice fun set that came with a early Hiatt steel karabiner.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Troll Spuds where one of the cord holes is drilled in the wrong direction The Troll Wedge is not drilled in the wrong direction. In fact the rope is threaded in a wrong way.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Marty.
That's an awesome set of early British nuts.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Steve - Thats a total coincidence that I unexpectedly received a Troll one hole wedge at the same time that you and Stephane were talking about the nut on another thread. I knew the British eBay nuts lot was a treasure, but now it reveals a even greater treasure. Very cool!
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