Vintage Antique HELFI PRIMING SPARK PLUG HIT AND MISS ENGINE - RARE
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Vintage Antique HELFI PRIMING SPARK PLUG HIT AND MISS ENGINE. I was told by a spark plug Collector that the HELFI Company never made a priming spark plug that the top did not go together with the bottom and we’re probably merged to be used by someone just needing a spark plug at some point but I am not positive I am not a professional spark plug expert selling as is In good condition selling for display only. Shipped with USPS First Class Package. Please look at my other auctions I w...ill be selling spark plugs that were picked up at a historical site at an estate sale it was an old blacksmith and (Mechanic) Shop. Thomas Joseph Schwab, Jr. arrived in Texas on July 8, 1844 aboard the first of the Prince Karl Solms ships to arrive on Texas shores. He led the first wagon through the Guadalupe River on Good Friday, March 21, 1845 and became a founding father of New Braunfels, Texas (Reference: "The Schwab Family 1650-2002", by Chris Kneupper, Jonathan Roba, and Vivian (Schwab) Zipp, p. 1). Thomas Schwab and fellow settler Valentin Fey purchased two parcels of land consisting of 90 acres and 110 acres from William Bracken on April 7, 1849 in the Rodriquez Survey #99 (Comal) which were southeast and northwest of the Comal Creek respectively (Comal Co. Deed Records, Book A, pp. 557-558). Thomas’s son Valentin Josef Schwab migrated to Comal in 1851and built his home beside what would become Schwab Road. Valentin’s grandson, Bruno John Schwab, lived on the family homestead until 1915 when he bought two acres of land from the Wenzel family where stood the Wenzel Blacksmith Shop. Bruno took over the blacksmith business and became the area’s most depended upon blacksmith and mechanic. The blacksmith shop, though vacant, still stands along Hwy. 482 (Attachment #2). The arrival of the automobile led Bruno to open a garage in 1915. That garage still stands along side the blacksmith shop.
