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So the local tool library's donations have turned up another oddity. (The square and wrench aren't part of it, they're just holding down some extremely old and stiff fabric/leather for the picture.) I think it's a jack of some kind? I will know more when I run the ragged paper that came with...

Nifty! And yeah, can see it being less gimmicky as a bevel.

For what it's worth, the last advertisement I can find for a Westcott wrench is in the June 30, 1927 Hardware Age. (They're mentioned under S wrenches up until 1959, but I'm not sure how much of a going concern they were.)

I feel this is rather gimmick-y, and cannot find a better place to post it in the index. ` GB patent 497450 was granted to Harry Millward of Birmingham on December 20, 1938, for a mechanic's square that permitted multiple configurations. The patent explains how the tool may be used as a...

3121983, maybe?

@Patrickm82 , you ****.

I took a closer look and compared it to some catalog pictures yesterday, and I think you're right. It looks very like the as-sold boxes, and even has what I think is the remnants of an inside lid sticker. Will try to identify the exact kit model sometime in July, when I am not coming home from...

You ****.

Yeah. This one is giving me more of a home-made impression; it seems like two boards hinged together with spaces routed out, and a little flip latch on front. The wooden boxes I've seen that tools were sold in (micrometers, an eight-piece punch set) seem to have had more work in the design -...

I had a moment of "$20 for a tiny socket se-- ooooh, I bet I know what brand that's gonna be." :ROFLMAO: You ****.

Just laid hands upon a Greenfield tap and die set made in Galt, Ontario, in what I think is a handmade box: Some of the taps are newer; there's an Ace, a Threadit, and one marked made in Japan. The rest is all GTD, though. ($35 Cdn, so I don't think it's suckworthy, but I did get to explain...

I delivered that thing when I was a kid. Make me feel old. Anyway! Found at a garage sale for $29: A soldering-iron--looking thing that I was told is used for sealing windows (may be misremembering some details) A vise, marked no. 88 and with a <G> logo A little carborundum sharpener A...

Right, these were not found at a garage sale, but they are going to a garage sale and I really wanted to share: Fairmount heavy-duty bumping hammer (from before the 70s AFAICT), a what-the-heck-is-this that is actually a saw set ( 🤯 ), a brass-plated glass cutter that unscrews to reveal a...

Nice finds! (And I definitely get the duplicate socket problem.)

LSI? (Although hell if I could tell you what that stood for, I'm on my phone and can't check The List.) Besides that, I'm seeing Greenfield, Threadit, Ace, and what looks like a squashed doughnut at the bottom. Which one couldn't you make out?