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There is an auction locally with some trapping supplies. There is a few namebrands that i am not familiar with and was wondering first are they worth a darn to use or are they worth anything to collect.

Oneida Newhouse variety of sizes- some labeled wolf traps (teethed not legal here so they would lokk good in a man cave or something to start a collection)
Triumph's not sure if this is the brand or model of Onedia
Diamond #4's
Sure Grip #4
Blake and Lamb double spring
Montgomery
Herters
Some pictures show these traps and from teh looks of the pans they look to pretty old as they have raised lettering.

Newhouse 4 1/2's bring really good money.

When I was trapping I had 10-12 dozen Montgomery step in #4's and they were a very good coyote trap. I don't even know if they are still made.

Expect Newhouses to go high. Triumph went out of business about 1930 or so. Condition is everything and there's lots of variables. E-bay will have 10-12 pages of vintage collectable traps just for a quick idea of prices. Good luck if you bid, you might do well.

I took a look at the newhouses on ebay they were kinda spread out on price. i kinda got an idea but looking at the pans from pics on ebay and the add they look slightly different. i guess we will see.

There is a lot of guys that love monty dogless traps.I'd pick them up if the price was decent.

I had to re-spring all of my Montgomery's after about 5-6 years. I tried a quad spring conversion but the frame didn't hold up to that much tension.

I always base plate them if i'm going to 4coil, even the better built northwoods/bridgers are much improved by a baseplate and D ring.

Just to extend this thread. I'm going sell some of my older traps at the upcoming Tx trapper rendevous. One is a #1 Mascot I will sell for $15. I found an ad from a 1931 catalog and the Mascots sold for $2.59 a dozen new.

Curious if the Newhouse are 4 1/2's and what they sold for.

I have always wanted a 4 1/2 but good ones seem to go $350 and up. I recently sold a couple of #4 user grade for $30-35. I have a couple stamped Prop. of U.S., Texas and such.

I now where there are a bunch of 4 1/2's hanging on the side of a barn rusting away. Tried to buy some but got no where.

Dang shame.

There were 5 4 1/2's total first guy took 2 at 385 a piece, and the rest sold between 325 and 365 a piece.

Out of poboy's price range and probably about the going price according to condition. Any smaller traps of interest? Thanks for the info.

Wow, certainly out of my price range too but thanks for the info.

Here is pic of the traps I got, there was a flatbed hay trailer that had traps stacked all the way around it all old. There was a lot of #4 Newhouse community traps in varying conditions some trap designs I never seen before. He had two traps that I forget the name ofbut they had two bars on each side stacked pretty cool stuff.