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I copied some photos off of eBay and other places to try ask why some Craftsman =v= tools have Craftsman etched with flat top A's and pointed A's. Can anybody tell why they did them the way they did and what year(s) they made them?

I copied a photo of an old 17" crown box off of ebay to compare. Then I copied from a 1960 Sears catalog to compare. They advertised a gray hammerloid finish. Some of the old tool boxes have an aluminum plastisol coated handle and some have steel coated handles. It is confusing. The box in...

Here is some photos of my Craftsman crown basic tool set. Some of the crown hex keys have =v= stamped on them. My crown punches have circle G stamped on them. All of my sockets have =v= stamped on them. Most of the tools have pointed A's on them in the Craftsman name except the punches and...

That is interesting. I pulled up a few catalog clips and found several differences. The first 1968 pic shows a round handle in a set. The second 1968 hip roof pic mentions the bigger box with a plastisol coated steel handle and the smaller hip box with a polyethylene handle. The 1969 pics...

The photos of the crown box with rounded plastic handle might be a box that was sold new around 1968-1969. The newer gray box has a rounded plastic handle and it was sold new in a box with a metal Sears Craftsman name plate but it has a Craftsman decal on the front. These were in about the...

I am not sure what to think about the time lines on the crown tool boxes and handles. I assembled a set of Craftsman =v= tools over many years. My crown tool box has a square plastic handle. I bought a new 17" Sears Craftsman tool box new (rough looking without logo) at Sears in about 1975 or...