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Even though I have no experience with knives, I'm no stranger to hand making and fitting parts. They are just normally motorcycle parts. Doing some currency converting, my gut instinct was to be happy if it was $300-$350. If it turns out to be closer to $500, then that might put me back in the...

I've seen a few pics of that Norfolk knife while searching for info on mine. The more I see it, the more I think I've seen it in person. There was a display a good few years back of top quality sheffield made stuff, can't remember if it was in Sheffield botanical gardens, or in the museum. I...

Thank you for the info. I've been reading. It says Cutler to her majesty, which apparently means pre 1901. But it has these plastic looking infills. It has 2 broken springs, which it turns out, can be removed. Not sure if unbroken ones would go back in though. Maybe. I knew it was good...

Possibly, and I'm 100% sure you know more about these than I do! However, with the style of jaws, and with the recess on the ends too, they may have been tricky to do in folded steel. All my knowledge of these though has come from skim reading this thread, so safe to say I don't know much...

Yes, I saw yours. Yours have folded steel jaws too though, this type are solid jaws. It was seeing those folded steel jaws that made me remember that I'm sure I have a pair of pliers like that. Somewhere! Yes, these have schollhorn around the pivot. They are older than I thought. I had assumed...

I saw knives were being discussed but thought I'd post this separate as I have some questions. Sheffield made knife, I'm going to guess 1940s but could be a bit earlier or later. I know nothing about knives! This is a family piece. A quick bit of internet searching tells me it's probably quite...

Thank you! So although these have been available since the 1890s, I assume they were available for quite some time? My pair isn't that old surely? Came from a late family members toolbox of stuff accumulated from the 1950s to the 1980s. Just a normal household tool box.

I have this pair. I'm sure I ha e some others, but can't find them. Looking on here and on Google, I don't see this style. I think there is a pair in a pic on this thread of someone on another forums collection. They have round jaws in the end too. I assume they are just for generally holding...

Thank you, always good to learn. If this spanner has done nothing else for me, it's led to me learning some new info.

That makes sense. They are not standards I know much about.

I found a chart that tells me a 1 3/8 diameter bolt has a 2 3/16 AF head. 1.5" diameter bolt is down as having a 2 3/8 head. All way bigger than I'll ever encounter! Would you even get fixings that big on big lorries or are we more into heavy plant, maybe large farm machinery? Trains? I don't...

I guess so! I was given it, and I'm not one to turn down free tools! I'll hang it back on the wall. You never know, one day I might need it. Probably when I can't find all the hammers 😂

I don't know how old this is. Probably not very. I'll remove it if it's too new. But it's the only proto I own I think, and it's quite impressive! Not sure why anyone needed a 2 3/16 spanner, especially in the UK.

Thanks, I hadn't twigged the part number was decimal size of BA! I can't find much info on this set, they don't seem very common. If I see parts of this set for sale they are often described as ex RAF. Thanks for the date range on the other socket too, I have an extension of the same era but...

Is this my set? Unfortunately I can't read this, not sure if it's the scan, or my phone. Why are the badges sometimes on the inside, sometimes outside?

I assume it should have had an mh324. These are ba size sockets right, but why do they only have the part number and it the size on them? The 2ba stamped replacement is also cracked. If anyone in the uk has a mh324 (assuming that's what it should be), and fancies helping me complete this set...

Is the 2ba socket ment to be in it? The box seems to have always been grey, but the lid looks black under the grey.

And lastly for the pics (the rest of my britool stuff is pretty common) I have this set. Is it the midget set?

I have this little BA spanner. Other side is plain. Quality seems somewhat Christmas cracker!

Some of my af ring spanners also have the size in decimal. Was this usual at a certain time period? I also have this teeny spanner