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I just found one too. Third one is the charm! If I wanted to date it, I guess I could research when E.C. Knudson took over the old H.H. Munger store in Chicago!

We were gone the last couple weekends, so I searched "new territory", so to speak. I hit two garage sales and found: Illinois Iron & Bolt (II&B Co.) No. 5 Anvil (pre-Vulcan) Chas. Parker No. 973 1/2 vise vintage Dazor model 602 clamp-on shop lamp Millers Falls No. 51 sill borer Plomb No. 227...

OK, here is my only Packer ratchet drill, but a good example of the fifth manufacturer, Armstong. It is a No. 9, with a great Armstrong "strong arm" logo. Thanks @AntiqueBen for the company context.

Here's a recent pickup, in pretty good shape - a Vacuum Grip No. 85 wire cutter. It is 5" long and marked Newport, PA U.S.A.

Hi CRSINMICH. I am very familiar with the Stanley 90 having used a very sharp Sweetheart version for years. This Type 1 with the earliest patent date (and not the 3-13-1900 one) and no model number on the casting, I thought was unique. While many people collect the newer versions, or...

Here’s my Type 1 Stanley No. 90 Bull Nose Rabbet Plane. The type 1 has the Traut’s “PAT’D 8-3-97” patent on the cutter. Stanley began manufacturing the rabbet plane in 1898. It has the S forge marks.

At a garage sale last weekend, I picked up this “The Prince” combination adjustable brace wrench, named after the patentee, Prince E. Shortt of Floyd, VA. After cleaning it up, including the rosewood handles, I tracked down its patent (#921,171, granted May 11, 1909). It is sometimes confused...

Here’s my latest find, a J.S. Fray & Co. in very good condition, with rosewood handle and nine original bits. Also, I agree with @Private Lugnutz on the Myers Co. awl. I used it on my two Gerstner and one Pilliod chests to make leather handle replacements with some leather scraps.

OK, I probably worked every waking moment this weekend on restoring (clean, polish, repolish, new product, try again, wax, buff, etc.) this torpedo Blackhawk toolbox. It’s not perfect by any means, but it will have to do...tired out! Of course, I forgot to take the “before” photos. I cleaned up...

The Elgin Tool & Socket Company was founded in 1895 in Elgin, Illinois and was best known as the original maker of the "Elgin" adjustable alligator wrench. I believe it was only in 1899 that production of the Elgin wrench was assumed by the Star Manufacturing Company.

Here is my Kraeuter "THE VICTOR" adjustable alligator wrench. It’s marked with the patent date of May 26, 1903, which was #728,842 patented by C.S. Bonney and licensed to Kraeuter. AA notes the Kraeuter manufacturing dates as ca. 1904-1910. This alligator wrench is often confused with a...

Here are three of my more decorative shears: 1) 8” bypass shears with a great knurled pattern on the handles, with a “P” and a “L” on the ends of the pattern. I can’t make out the marking, just below the rivet. Any help appreciated. 2) H&S (Hacomer Solingen?) 6” locking pruning shears. There...

Wow @RTM! How did you find that? I still can’t find it on DAT. You are very fast/helpful on that site, for everyone. What’s your method? Thanks.

Here’s an old 12” strapped hammer I have. I finally cleared off the patina and discovered it was marked, to the best of my eyesight, “ Butterfield”. I cannot find any Butterfield company manufacturing hammers. I’d be happy to hear if any of you have any thoughts on the original manufacturer.

Finally got around to cleaning up my No. 2 Bullard Wrench (12 1/2”length). Patent OCT. 27, ‘03. Still works perfectly.

Three diamond Utica Button pattern pliers (5”) with diamond checkered grip, but no model number.

Stumbled upon this pair of Harrold pliers (6”).

I know a few of you have persevered like this before, but I hadn’t until this weekend. My first stop Friday had maybe forty bins that were full of random sockets, wrenches or other tools. Many of you have worked to the bottom of a box/bin before finally landing the goods, so to speak. I never...

I picked up these three Barcalo-Buffalo tools recently: 1) 7/8" x 3/4" DOE wrench with raised panels 2) 7/16" x 3/8" offset DBE wrench with "FORGED" and raised panels 3) small 7/16" combination wrench with raised panels

This weekend, I happened by an estate sale of everything in an old house that evidently had not been lived in for a long time. There were several buyers already in the garage, so I focused on items positioned on the floor. There was an old Union toolbox, that I recognized from a post from...