Kleen kut?

[pandapike]

Anyone know anything about the use of this guy?

I picked the three of these up at an estate for $2 I assumed the other two probably would have been used for lead work. I figure engraving or stamping for the Kleen Kut. Thoughts?

 

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The Vulcan Alidie seems to be a brand or flavor of high carbon high chrome steel used for punch material. Lots of links, but most in snippet view.

The Tool Engineer 1957-03: Vol 38 Iss 3 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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[Firebrick43]

Cartouche test block,maybe a test piece or a salesman sample.


Other one is hard to read but definitely bounced on being struck

 

[pandapike]

The Vulcan Alidie seems to be a brand or flavor of high carbon high chrome steel used for punch material. Lots of links, but most in snippet view.

The Tool Engineer 1957-03: Vol 38 Iss 3 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Tool Engineer 1957-03: Volume 38, Issue 3.Digitized from IA1642603-05.Previous issue: sim_manufacturing-engineering_1957-02_38_2.Next issue:...

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It clearly has the Kleen kut stamp so I assume that’s a company but haven’t found anything about them. Vulcan was used by everyone back in the day.

 

[Firebrick43]

It clearly has the Kleen kut stamp so I assume that’s a company but haven’t found anything about them. Vulcan was used by everyone back in the day.

kleen kut made kitchen saws and meat grinders and such back until the 50's

 

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It clearly has the Kleen kut stamp so I assume that’s a company but haven’t found anything about them. Vulcan was used by everyone back in the day.

Sorry, working slow here. Kleen-Kut Stamp Works was around in 1949, in Chicago

Engravers of Die Cast Bakelite and Rubber Molds
Steel and Brass Stamps

Engravers and Die Sinkers
All Kinds of Marking Devices

2649 Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Lakeview 4218

From the 1949 The National Louis University yearbook




What is the vise looking logo say in the center, I see IME & x DW in the jaws.

 

[pandapike]

Sorry, working slow here. Kleen-Kut Stamp Works was around in 1949, in Chicago

Engravers of Die Cast Bakelite and Rubber Molds
Steel and Brass Stamps

Engravers and Die Sinkers
All Kinds of Marking Devices

2649 Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Lakeview 4218

From the 1949 The National Louis University yearbook




What is the vise looking logo say in the center, I see IME & x DW in the jaws.

Well as I picked it up in Chicago about 4 miles from there clearly didn’t travel far

You guess is as good as mine on the stamp.

 

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How about this, from the link below. Is it a union made stamp or is it a show off for something else like a presentation piece. With the double struck of that logo I'm thinking not presentation piece.

International Metal Engravers and Marking Device Workers Union ( henceforth referred to as IME & MDWU )

Proceedings of the ... Triennial Convention of the International Jewelry Workers Union, AFL-CIO.

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