Need help identifying old monkey wrench

[Eric Brown]

Sorting out my auger bits I finally got to an old metal toolbox that a co-worker gave me full of bits. At the bottom I found an interesting monkey wrench. Not much in the way of markings. It has numbers 2817 on main casting and 2816 on the movable jaw. It is 8 1/2" long closed and can open to 2".

I could not find an exact match in "American Wrench Makers" by Kenneth L. Cope. Closest was a Spiers 1895 patent.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

Sorting out my auger bits I finally got to an old metal toolbox that a co-worker gave me full of bits. At the bottom I found an interesting monkey wrench. Not much in the way of markings. It has numbers 2817 on main casting and 2816 on the movable jaw. It is 8 1/2" long closed and can open to 2".

I could not find an exact match in "American Wrench Makers" by Kenneth L. Cope. Closest was a Spiers 1895 patent.

Any help is appreciated.

Pretty cool Eric. And old. RMT will be around, and a bunch of others will decipher the history on that hunk of steel.

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

Pretty cool Eric. And old. RMT will be around, and a bunch of others will decipher the history on that hunk of steel.

Correction. RTM.

 

[RTM]

Correction. RTM.

That's usually outside my wheel house. Need a couple of markings to Google.

Have you checked the Oddfellows thread?

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

That's usually outside my wheel house. Need a couple of markings to Google.

Ah man.

 

[3baygarage]

Sure looks the same as an International Harvester.

 

[Eric Brown]

Sure looks the same as an International Harvester.

Thank you. It does look like a IH. This one is slightly different number wise and the pictures of ones I could find have a fluted adjusting nut where mine has a knurled one. Speculation: The knurled nut on mine would make it closer to the beginning or end of this style wrench, but which? The knurling was cast, not turned and I think if you had muddy hands the fluted version would work better.