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Nice old green handles and a nice small Copaloy mixed in there. Quick glance left to right ( my take) CN56P, SN56RGP, LN55P, DN56P, HL17P, NN56P and a S55P. Likely purchased before the early 80's, at least the ones with the stamped makers mark. They went to laser etching the marks at some...

Those could possibly also have been from somewhere else in its life along the way it’s 100 years old

I agree its very well done.

My guess is that someone carefully applied some heat and carefully bent a old 10-12 double end into that "S" shape. I have a lot of Diamonds myself including all the very old 1920's double ends and this is not among them. I have catalogs etc and never saw one of these in there as shown. My...

You could cut the pin with a dremel and use a diamond blade and then put a new slot in.in the end carefully, I have done that. Might be way easier than trying to find a old style 4" pin. -tx-

Nice. The oldest one is the 10-12 due to the USA After Duluth, Minn. likely late 1920's. the others are a bit newer maybe 1930's pure guess. Good luck on the 4-6's old style. -tx-

You are correct and I agree. I also got concurrence from some guys that are still around that worked with my dad. Diamond did some of that contract worked and also made a lot of promotional tools for folks, especially the Handyboy DH18 just to name one. Thx.

I have quite a few I will need to take pictures and post eventually Here is a pretty nice 10-12 double end Fulton plus and old Lakeside 6-8 Double End and a 4-6 blank. thx -tx-

To chime in more it's 99% Diamond I have several my dad gave me and he worked for Diamond. Diamond would forge "blanks" then when they did private label runs they would stamp in the names "Fulton", Lakeside" "Merit" for example. This is what my dad told me years ago anyway. -tx-

Actually it's pretty common on early Diamond 20's wrenches, they are raised letters not stamped in, I have many of them. They stopped I'd guess in the 30's, not 100% sure but once the re-enforced hanging holes started the numbers I think stopped or at least slowed drastically. thx -t-

My father and grandfather worked for Diamond, to the best of my recollection they said the entire process was done on site at the Grand Avenue plant. I recall a conversation 50+ years ago with them saying something about those numbers being the forge machine number but take that for what it...

Interesting thread I happened upon here. There was a question early on "if they are rare?". The answer by Woody was 99.99 % correct in "no" with possibly one exception, Diamond did make the "Handiman" with no branding early in WWII that had no Handiman branding only a diamond logo and "Duluth...

Superb Collection, I have almost all these but your double ended collection is particularly impressive. very cool..