If this source is correct, my anvil could date from between 1820 and 1835, based on what I can parse from the lettering. I see an "H" in the top line, "USE" on the third line, and part of an "O" and an "LE" on the fourth line before the weight numbers.
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First pick ups of 2019! Hit a local Habitat Restore today and dug through some socket piles. Almost all SK sockets, with the two sockets on the left being Snap-On. The screwdriver is an SK, but it is in pretty rough shape. Picked it all up for $10!
No worries, drives! You got me on the right track to narrow in on English anvils and that led me to Mouse Hole. Thanks!
BB, I don';t know if this gains any clarity, but a bit bigger, (cropped) and I putzed with the lighting:
(Maybe scrub it with chalk and wipe the top surface?)
Based on what you said I get 1880?
M&H
Armatige
Mouse
Hole
Both. Seriously, you will see it both ways. I've read two explanations for the difference, both similar/related. I've read that "Gerry Can" came about to distinguish German (Jerry) cans from British/US (Gerry) cans. And I've read that it came about because some people consider "Jerry" to be a derogative term, like "Nip" or "Jap." I don't put much stock in either one, but you do see both spellings.
Thanks for the compliment, Drives. My wife and kids have other words for it. The nicest is probably 'intense,' but it quickly goes south to less nice (e.g., obsessed) from there.
We're probably talking about the same thing. I think it served two purposes. Stiffener and small parts trough. I think the same thing about my other wartime machinists' box, a Kennedy, with three dimples in the drop front lid/tray/work surface.
If you mean tips or blades, yeah, they're not tool steel, that's for sure. These are chewed up a little. If you mean bits, literally, these shanks don't unscrew. It's not that kind of set. The smaller one fits inside the larger one, and the hexnut end cap has two different diameter threads on it so it can screw onto the end of the larger one while it's screwed onto the smaller one. Not sure how the other two (it's a 4-IN-1) missing drivers would work, though. The hexnut end cap will only work on these two.
So, I have been jonesing like a fiend for a good sale lately, and yesterday one came up. One good enough that I went back today!
First day:
Highlight include a Stanley SweetHeart plane, two P&C ratchets, Craftsman flying V socket set, MAC spinner, Cresent socket box, long SK ratchet (needs kit) and Proto wire strippers.
Second day:
Highlights include a complete set of ratcheting wrenches, Pony clamp, Proto line wrench, misc. Proto LA, a Cresent wrench I needed to fix a double ender and a Plomb ignition wrench. Misc. sockets on both days include SK, Craftsman, Snap-on, MAC, Proto and Armstrong. Proto wrenches include a DBE chevron. I paid $45 altogether, and that was a story in its own self. The first day the guy (stepson) priced me and called to his mom to make change. OK. Next day he tells me to go ask his mom for a price. OK, so I go in the house. She looks at me and says "why did he send you inside?" She had a price list he made but she didn't even know half the tools and just cut me a price. Much better.
There was just a ton of stuff in sheds all over. If they had just spent a day or two getting the whole thing organized they would have done much better. But that is family run estate sales. I just missed getting a couple Stanley router planes, kinda bummed about that.
Here is are additional pics of the socket boxes:
Does anyone know a good way to clean paper labels? I don't see the old Cresent lables very often.
