Antique taps and maple equipment. needed

[red maples]

Hi all, So just looking around trying to find some really old taps or maybe wooden buckets or just about anything antique maple that I can display in the sugarhouse. Not sure if anyone has anything they might want to part with but I guess its worth a shot. Been checking a few Antique shops here and there when I get a chance but pretty slim pickin's when it come to maple equipment. any help would be great.

[maplefrank]

i have some cast spouts.....will try to get some pics.....

[red maples]

You can PM me and will give you my email address if thats easier.

[Cardigan99]

Brad, check ebay. There's always old cast spiles and buckets on there. I pick up an old syrup can every now and then if I like the way it looks. I have about a dozen of them now.

Todd

[red maples]

good Idea...I'll check it out.

[mvdeerxing]

Hi Brad,
You might want to check this can from NH,
https://www.etsy.com/listing/88861124

[smitty76]

I have a few cast spouts, and i am going to the saphouse tonight to bottle. i will grab a handfull and send a pic your way. if you are interested, you can have them.

[Cardigan99]

Hi Brad,
You might want to check this can from NH,
https://www.etsy.com/listing/88861124

MV.. I've got two of those one gallon cans with 'David Bascom' (from Bascom's) lables on them. I think they're from the 1960's

[maple flats]

I have a display board made up with about 18 different old spouts and 1 wooden bucket along with a 3 x 6 old english tin flues pan I have on display. No they are not for sale! But I found them along the way. When I bought a 3x8 evaporator from a retired producer he had all the taps for sale. The 3x6 tin pan came in a deal I bought from another retired producer and the wooden bucket came from a visitor to my sugarhouse during an open house, I got it for 1 qt of syrup. The main thing is just keep looking, these will come available in time, just be ready, and keep looking.

[smitty76]

Brad, i have 6pc of cast spouts that my great grandfather gave my father to use. My father has not used them sense he was 10. he believes they were made in 1904. I will have a pic later today.

[maple maniac65]

Bascoms has wooden buckets for sale for around $25.00 apiece. He had a pallet of them last spring. I bought a pan from the early 20's there a few years back for $35.00. It is about 6 feet long and has a few dividers in it. The place to find antique maple is in Vt at yard sales and flea markets.

[red maples]

I have a display board made up with about 18 different old spouts and 1 wooden bucket along with a 3 x 6 old english tin flues pan I have on display. No they are not for sale! But I found them along the way. When I bought a 3x8 evaporator from a retired producer he had all the taps for sale. The 3x6 tin pan came in a deal I bought from another retired producer and the wooden bucket came from a visitor to my sugarhouse during an open house, I got it for 1 qt of syrup. The main thing is just keep looking, these will come available in time, just be ready, and keep looking.

Thats exactly what I wanna do. Have a little display board.

[red maples]

Brad, i have 6pc of cast spouts that my great grandfather gave my father to use. My father has not used them sense he was 10. he believes they were made in 1904. I will have a pic later today.

Very cool!!!

[mvdeerxing]

Hi Brad,
just a bit of eye candy. Be careful, one can can lead to many more. You will need a shelf to start, plan big. The collecting bug might get you just like adding more taps. Stop in some sugar houses, there is so much to see other than syrup look for the eye candy. There is some nice collections out there.


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Cardigan99, I have 3 cans like that all a bit different. Different years, and colors.

On my can shelf some cans look the same, but in fact they are all different.

[smitty76]

here is a pic Brad. it is hard to read what they say, but with some magnification, it says PAT'D 1904. If you pm me your address, i will send them to you.:rolleyes:

[red maples]

Hi Brad,
just a bit of eye candy. Be careful, one can can lead to many more. You will need a shelf to start, plan big. The collecting bug might get you just like adding more taps. Stop in some sugar houses, there is so much to see other than syrup look for the eye candy. There is some nice collections out there.

Cardigan99, I have 3 cans like that all a bit different. Different years, and colors.

On my can shelf some cans look the same, but in fact they are all different.

Thats really cool. Funny thing is we must have thrown away a bunch of those smaller tin maple cans when I was a kid. kicking myself now!!! but hey who knew I'd be looking for them now!!! Thanke for the info everyone!!!

[Cardigan99]

Hi Brad,
just a bit of eye candy. Be careful, one can can lead to many more. You will need a shelf to start, plan big. The collecting bug might get you just like adding more taps. Stop in some sugar houses, there is so much to see other than syrup look for the eye candy. There is some nice collections out there.


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Cardigan99, I have 3 cans like that all a bit different. Different years, and colors.

On my can shelf some cans look the same, but in fact they are all different.

Very nice collection mvdeerxing

[mvdeerxing]

Very nice collection mvdeerxing

Thank you, Some of the cans look the same, but in fact they are all different. Just eye candy, only problem is there is no more room on that shelf. Collecting is my problem, cans, bottles, buckets-wood metal, taps, signs, paper, sugar molds, early hydrometer and cups, thermometer. Well lets just say all things to do with maple syrup.
My hats off to some of the collections that I have seen. Some nice things out there.
red maples it started with one can.

[maplefrank]

having trouble getting photos on here.......if anyone wants to see them pm me your email.

[JBerry]

Hi, My name is Jim Berry and this is my 1st post to the MapleTrader Forum. I found your post after I searched for "antique pans." I live in Jamestown, NY (western NY near Lake Erie) and have 7 antique Pans for sale. I've had them since 1979 when I purchased them at a farm dispersal sale in Lucas, Ohio. There are both sap and syrup pans, all are flat bottomed. At them time I was involved in maple sugaring and always thought I would put them back in action. Well, time has marched along and I still have them. I have no idea what they are worth, but would be glad to let you know I have them in case you're interested. I have many photographs and will attach a few. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Jim

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[Shawn]

Funny to see those as that is what our back/ preheater pan looks like. One of the guys that sugars with us gave us the pan that his father had used when he sugared and we still use it today and it works just fine. Down the road we will replace it with a more modern one I guess you could say, but plan to hold onto it anyways.