vintage collectors guides, small press books illustrated types and brands antique steel traps

Lot of four small paper cover guidebooks, collecting antique and vintage traps. I am NOT a trapper, these came to us with part of an estate.

These are full of interesting pictures of the types of traps - so many times I get asked to identify some gadget or part of a gadget found in a barn somewhere, and I have no idea what it is, as it's like no tool I've even seen before.

Turns out the chances are good that it's part of an antique trap! If you like collecting old tools, you probably need these books.