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Once the popularity of the concrete block was established, competing companies marketed their own machines. All followed Palmer's design. For example, the Wizard block-making machine was sold through Sears Roebuck Company catalogs, ranging in price from $42.50 to $63.75. According to an ad in the 1910 catalog, one man …


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Offered in the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog, the Wizard makes blocks 8 inches by 8 inches by 16 inches and was advertised by Sears as "the most rapid block …


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Shown above is a Wizard block-making machine. These were hugely popular for Sears and now they're in great demand as collectors' items. Apparently, they were well made and worked as promised. ... The image originally appeared in a 1910s Sears Concrete Block catalog. After scanning the image, I also cleaned it up a bit, …


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When Steve first learned about block making he was captivated, so in the early 1990s, when he came across a 1908 Wizard Concrete Building Block Machine, he snapped it up. Offered in the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog, the Wizard makes by Sears as "the most rapid block maker on the market and it is strictly a one-man machine."


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Sears offered the Wizard Block Making machine which retailed for $57.50 (a bargain at twice the price!). And Sears suggested that a man could save a lot of money on building a new home if he made his …


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Make Blocks For Fun and Profit with The Wizard Block. In the early 1900s, the pages of American Carpenter and Builder (a building magazine from that era) were filled with advertisements for block-making machines and cement-stirring machines. Sears offered the Wizard Block Making machine which retailed for $57.50 (a bargain at twice the …


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A Sears Home, it was Built In 1904. The concrete blocks were produced with their Wizard block making machine. Using this machine, you could make 50-70 blocks a day. The …


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You just had to pack a bit of wet concrete into a mold, give it a squeeze in the Wizard, open the machine and put the concrete out to dry. If your machine had a bunch of bottoms, you could make your blocks in relatively short order. The Sears catalog had several different mold faces, so you weren't obliged to use the same design as your …


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Sears and The Wizard Block-Making Machine

Close-up of The Wizard. The Wizard Block Making Machine from an early 1900s Sears specialty catalogue. In what looks like a backwards evolution graphic, a man demonstrates how to use the …


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A Sears Home, it was Built In 1904. The concrete blocks were produced with their Wizard block making machine. Using this machine, you could make 50-70 blocks a day. The blocks necessary for the average basement would take nearly four weeks to make. Source: The Houses that Sears Built, Everything you ever wanted to know about Sears catalog …


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Sears and The Wizard Block-Making Machine. by Sears Homes | Aug 11, 2010 | Uncategorized | 18 comments. In the early years of the 20th Century, cement was all the rage. And the idea of making your own cinder blocks (for fun and profit) apparently also became quite popular. The back pages of the 1905 issues of American Carpenter and …