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NOTE: The swivel pin is tapered AND threaded.

Member dannyr posted a 45 mm Model 835 Henri Picard & Frere vice on the main vise thread - post number 95974. This page is from their 1910 dental supply catalogue Machoires = jaws. 45mm = 1.77 inches 60mm = 2.36 inches incassables = unbreakable Henri Picard and Brother did have...

Excerpts from a 1910 dentistry supply catalogue of Henri Picard & Frere

There has been a discussion of Boker vises on the main vise thread. A section of a 1928 catalogue of ARICO tools was used. The catalogue was from Bucharest, Romania but the listings seem to be in German. Here are the complete listings for Schraubstocken (vises).

tortron: This is a page from a 1928 ARICO catalogue. The catalog is from Hungary* but the tool information seems to be in German. The vise pictured on page 69 may not be exactly the same as yours but it did come in 5/0 size and it does say "Phonix". 'parallelschraubstocke' is 'parallel vise'...

tortron: Herman Boker & Company produced a variety of items from guns to straight razors. One of the registered trade-marks they used was a tree. By 1897 they were also making rapid transit vises which, however, did not at all resemble the one you posted. It must be the same company though...

FOR FUTURE REFERENCE Catalogue H (ca. 1920) of Fulton Machine & Vise Co. listed several discontinued models. (The strips that denoted discontinued models obscured some specs which were retrieved from previous catalogues)

Shift: Here's a page from a 1912 Fulton Machine & Vise catalogue. Note that their Star brand was their "heaviest pattern, strongest vise..."

colmal: A bit more information about Stewart Handy Workers and Cooper Engineering Co. Ltd. 1918

colmal: I missed the reference to Champion in your original post. Here's a page from a 1922 Champion Blower and Forge catalogue for comparison.

colmal: I just checked Ebay and there are two Handy Workers listed. One is for US $379 and one for US $500.

WILLIAMSON VISE INFO Notice that the drawing on the lower left of the catalog has "PATENT APL'D FOR" on the side of the vise. The article about YOST purchasing the WILLIAMSON plant was from 1910. PeterPeter: Model No. R has 3 3/4" jaws.

Eric Brown: Judging by the the fourth picture you attached, the plane you posted would cut a bead. It may have been based on or inspired by the 1878 patent by Justus Traut. It doesn't look like a commercially produced plane but it was well made. I think the T shape of the cutter may have been to...

C M Kemp Mfg. Co. was heavily into heating and plumbing in the late 1890s and early 1900s. These extracts from a 1925 Issue of Macraes's Blue Book were from a small print column of Trade Names of all manner of items that their manufacturers named CLIMAX. Kemp seemed to like that name. The last...

From a 1920 Rock Island catalog and the patent drawing

Over the summer I managed to acquire and spiff up a number of small clamp ons. I fell behind in posting them so I'll have to do it in batches. Here's the first installment - two Champion style vises. There's a hole in the front jaw of the #118. I decided to leave it when I noticed that it's...

Mity 7 Vise By AMF Float-LOCK This was a slightly more versatile version of the Float-LOCK drill press vise. One ad says that it does the work Of 5 different tools and the other mentions the jaws opening "a full 7 inches!" (I wonder how I ever did without one) (I actually could have used one...

A bit of early Parkinson's information