More tools from this attic find in Switzerland - Spanners

[Michael Steinmann]

Any info is appreciated.
Further to this thread.
These have markings on one side only:

 

[Michael Steinmann]

And these are signed on both sides:

 

[Michael Steinmann]

More:

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'm not going to comment on tools marked with mfgr's names or brands that you can easily search for here on GJ with the search function or on the internet with a web browser.

For those that don't have overt markings, in order of posting...

Wrench #2 was made by Vlchek. Prewar. Common. Little to no value.

Wrench #7 was made by Indestro. Part of an auto kit, stacked with several other little combos of various sizes, by a screw and nut through that hole in the shank. Common. Little to no value.

Wrench #10 was made by PENENS. Postwar. Common. Little to no value.

I'm curious about this lot. Note that of all the tools you have posted here and the first thread that you linked, no two (or very few) were the same make or model or production period. It's a little strange that all of these miscellaneous wrenches, pliers, and other tools - none of them of great value, were in your mother's attic. Did she move into the house and they were already there? Or were they stashed there by your father or someone else? Either way, it is a very motley lot resembling a pile that one would find on top of a $1 table at a flea market ("flohmarkt", "jumble" or "boot sale" in Europe etc) after a liquidator dumped out all the dregs from several different toolboxes grabbed from several different houses or garages. The only other explanation would be a collector with little rhyme or reason to his collecting.

 

[Michael Steinmann]

Thank you for your time.
I am not interested in the value, more in the history and I will ask my mother. But, I sure assume that they are from my father.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

You're welcome.

You didn't mention your father before. In that case, either he was picking these up a little at a time, over time (several decades), or, if they were users (was he handy? often working on cars and machines and such?), the others (many if not most of these wrenches would've come in sets, not singles) went missing.

 

[Michael Steinmann]

Well he was very talented with his hands. Made knives for himself and for the environment (rural area). Always built and repaired things. From home machines to tractors. Regarding the search option: I used it but didn't get the information I was looking for, so I guess I'm doing something wrong. The strangest tool so far is the KABEKO. There's no information on it on the web either.
Thanks again.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Wrench #4, same style, same markings ("SELECTED-SPECIAL-STEEL"), but metric sizes, has been associated with Porsche kits of the 70's and 80s. With imperial size markings, though, they would've been exports. Not sure of the OEM. Weyersberg, a West German company, used "SELECTED-STEEL". I have a set. Their trumpet logo would be on the flip side shank.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Well he was very talented with his hands. Made knives for himself and for the environment (rural area). Always built and repaired things. From home machines to tractors.

Very cool. Do you have a toolbox or any tools that you know were his? Most of these don't smack of the kinds of tools that would've been in the user toolbox of the kind of man you so eloquently described. I can't overemphasize how eclectic and miscellaneous this lot is. Was he also a picker? Did he go to flea markets? Maybe these were things he just picked up over the years out of general curiosity.

 

[Stubby1743]

Petters ltd of Yeovil, England were an engine maker from 1896 that then became Westland Aircraft. Later the company concentrated on making helicopters. Helicopters are still made at the Yeovil site but now under the name of Leonado Helicopters. Yeovil has become known as the home of British helicopters.

 

[four.cycle]

Mr. Steinmann - could you please post a photo image of the other side of the small box-open-end wrench marked "DROP FORGED SELECT STEEL" please?

Petters Ltd. at Wikipedia -

 

[Michael Steinmann]

Mr. Steinmann - could you please post a photo image of the other side of the small box-open-end wrench marked "DROP FORGED SELECT STEEL" please?

Petters Ltd. at Wikipedia -

This one?

 

[four.cycle]

Yes, exactly that one. Thanks.
I do not believe that wrench was manufactured in Chicago, Illinois by Indestro.
I believe that wrench was manufactured in "West" Germany after WWII under the Marshall Plan, perhaps with Indestro's own dies.
Note the sharper "edges" around the perimeter of the depressed panel on the shanks.
I've seen those before - in ebay listings - marked "W.GERMANY" - but I didn't think to grab a screen shot.

 

[d42jeep]

Any info is appreciated.
Further to this thread.
These have markings on one side only:

Your Barcalo wrench is shown in this 1955 catalog image.
-Don
Edit. Spotted a 1953 ad on eBay.