Antique German tool for marking trees!

[any88]

I found this peace. it has cracked handle, but nothing that someone could not glue back together, i assume

it says wilhelm gohlers and something else on it.

on the metal part of the handle, that holds the disc in one place hen pressed, it says, i think - 4814.

its rusry and i was wondering what could i do to take the rust off.

please tell me more about all of this

[any88]

1 more thing - i found this, and i saw 5 number serial, and mine has 4 number, as i mentioned above. could this mean this is way, way older?

you can see in this link that serial is much easyer to see, and it almost seeme like much metter machine stamped it. on my tool for marking trees, serial is pretty bad. numbers dont look so modern, shape of them is not so consistent and detailed.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-German-rare-tool-marking-trees-Lumberjack-Wilh-Gohlers-/380434353637?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5893a78de5

[bigwull]

Your,s may be older...but it does,nt make it worth more...its all about condition...and frankly your,s is,nt in the best of condition...further more,your,s only has one numbers wheel,..therefore it must be assumed that your,s is incomplete....and if it is...then it has more use as a club than it does for marking trees,

[any88]

oh, i didnt realize that.

sh*t, once again

[mart]

well if it was supposed to have a second number wheel,, the identifying numbers would not be on the top of the one shown,, no one would see it !!

just curious any88,,but why are you trying to make a killing on one item ??  that rarely happens??  why not do like many here do and make your profit on volume !!  you have some unique items and an average profit on several things adds up to quite a bit !!

[bigwull]

i Did,nt say it,had to have 2 numbers wheels Mart, i was making an assumption based on the pic of the one for sale on Ebay..and if you look at the top pic,if there was 2 wheels the "missing"one would sit below the one thats there,furthermore,i think its safe to assume that the numbers on the 2 wheels of the ebay one are from 1 to 10..which would make sense if you were numbering trees, that were to be felled...but with the one wheel tool, you,d have a really hard job marking a tree with...for instance..25...

[any88]

i have to say this : when you look at mine, it does not seem that there should be second wheel. Well, anyway, I dont see where that second one would be placed. on that place just below the one we see... if there ever was another wheel on there, it would have been very different from the "upper" one.. because i can see how "existing one" looks like inside, and where that locking mechanism goes... and there is no way that locking mechanism would lock more than one wheel.

which makes me excited again, because, based on this and its small serial number, this could be very very old.. before they thought of making another wheel, or before they thought of they way how to combine 2 of them.

[mart]

bigwull that was thinking out loud !!  could have been for something else besides trees !!

[any88]

it also says (on that wheel besides Wilh.Göhler's) : Freiberg in sachsen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiberg

[any88]

I found this site, and I wrote an email the dude who made the site (name is on the very bottom on the page)

http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/goehler.phtml

Im little bit disheartened now, I dont see a single disc model. But I really dont see a room or place for that second wheel on my tool.

[mart]

let us know when you get an answer !!

[any88]

sure