Whoa! Nice find! Can we get a closer look at those speeders? They look like 20s Cornwell handles. Any markings on the sockets?
Twertsy: Here are a few more photos of what was in the kit. I will send you a pm in the near future and maybe we can work out a trade
Thanks for resurrecting this. A recent interest in New Britain knurled socket sets led me to also collecting New Britain made Husky and Craftsman BE and Circle H knurled sets. After looking at my Husky 1/4, 3/8 and 1/2 partial sets, I found that mine were about 50/50 underline Husky vs not. On my round head ratchets, only the 3/8 is underlined and I also have one 3/8 breaker underlined and one not. I've never noticed the difference until now.
From all I've seen, there appears to be a point in time where NB changed the logo on the sockets from Husky with an underline to one without. 1970s?
There isn't a lot of detail on AA about the underline, but just from browsing pictures of what they do show on a few Husky ratchets, it looks like the underline may have disappeared in the early '60's.
I need to check mine again, but the trademark shown on the Tool Archives TM page shows the underline joining the H and Y. The TM referenced was 1924, so NB may have tweaked the trademark a bit (?) after their acquisition of Husky in the '30's.
More than a bit. The logo for Husky as a New Britain brand in the late 30's and 40's looked nothing like the old Husky (independent company) logo. The New Britain log was sharper and more stylized with all super straight lines. As for the differences between the later (late 50's? 60's?) New Britain Husky logo and the New Britain 30's through 40's logo, it's more than just removing the underline. The letters in HUSKY are all very plain and straight up and down. Even if you remove the underline from the earlier logo, you can see that the letters are more stylized.
Nice!
Did you get the insert with it also Don? I'm enjoying collecting these knurled NB sockets and find that the Husky & Craftsman BE branded ones have been somewhat easier to find here locally than the NB for some reason. Also other than the few Plomb sockets I'm still searching for, the knurled sockets are so much easier to spot in a bucket or box!
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I just have what I have already taken I started an early husky thread here if you want to post some pics
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We seem to be lacking a thread for pre- new britain Husky tools, so if you have some post them up! Here is a 20s 5/16 hex set
Long time lurker even longer time tool hunting and saving first time commenting. I don’t know if this will help but I came across a miscellaneous mismatched set in a metal case that’s definitely not original but I’m not complaining. I was told they were from the 30’s and 40’s some have an underline H connecting to the Y others have a short underlined H and others have no underline but all have the knurled stripe on the bottom. I like the set it’s neat because of the history but I’d rather someone that is collecting them to have them, I’m more of the plomb, proto, 1930’s craftsman, and early blue point fan. This addiction totally happened by accident but again I’m not complaining. Let me know if you see anything you need and we can talk shop, make arrangements or whatever you’d like.
