This is the first offering from a treasure trove of early 18C original wall board from a single, 1730 cape in MA. Four wide, hand planed, unpainted, thick (proud 1”), matching boards. Widths of 16”-17” and all 7’10”. Cost: (1730-1) 24sf @ $40sf, $960
A rare find of sixteen, matching pyramid top, granite posts. Each is 66” average overall length with 36” finished and 30” below ground. Most have two holes on opposite sides for bars. The holes are 16” on-center apart. Two posts have 3/4” diameter gate pintles which the two holes on the opposite sides. The pintles [...]
~500sf of circular sawn hay loft flooring. This flooring is rather clean and has been nicely burnished from the bales of hay being moved around on it over the years. Widths of approximately 4”-10”+/- and length of approximately 4’-10’ plus some shorts. The floor has been washed and would be great as a wall or [...]
3”x7” sawn pine joists of varying lengths plus some smaller and larger dimension beams. Cost: (sawn joists) $1000, whole batch only.
#3-38’x7”x7” hewn beams from same house. 38'ers have regularly space joist and primary joist notches. Very good condition. Cost: (Hewn Pine Beams) #3-38' beams, $2,280. Anything less than all 3 beams, $25 lf. Full lengths only.
Fantastic early entry stone from Epsom, NH. ~7’4” long x 23” wide x 7” tall (edges) with ‘belly’ (not flat on bottom). Perfect for a large door entry stone or could be used lengthwise as part of a walkway or in concert with ‘granite walkway stones’. Great tooling and lichen growth on top and 3 [...]
Spectacular 1,400sf+ of original surface, foot worn, numbered, wide, long, antique Eastern White pine flooring. A fabulous find and a long time in the making. This came from the Chichester, NH meeting house which dates to the 1770’s, but I think the original floor wore out and this floor was put in during the mid-1800’s. [...]
Stair tread stock. #22 pieces of a mix of pines from a barn in NH. They measure 2” x 11.5” x 6’+/-. They are rough sawn and could be dressed for ‘open’ treads of a thickness very close to 2”. The 2" tread stock has the tight paint on one side. Cost: (batch #91) #22 [...]
~#100 salvaged 2x8’s from a barn built about 1950 or so. The Doug Fir 2x8’s (actual dimensions ~1&5/8” thick x 7.5”+/- wide x ~12’-14’+/- long. The material is very true and dry. It is also No. 1 from West Coast Mill #49! We just don’t have many trees that will produce such high-quality stock today. [...]
450sf+ of super wide, hand-planed and foot worn, antique Red Pine (aka Northern Hard Pine). Native to New England, it is a very heavy and dense wood and tight grain. It is often mixed with White Pine in old houses because they can look very similar. This is an assembled batch from different houses. It [...]
