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I’m hoping that someone can provide some information about my anvil. I remember this anvil as a young child in my grandfather’s garage. I have never seen another one like this. Why is it hollow and what was the hole in the side for?

I’m a big fan of the old, classic, Gray and Red Craftsman toolboxes. I have two major stacks, a 21 drawer stack and a 19 drawer stack. My biggest challenge has been finding an efficient wrench storage system. I tried a couple of wrench rail configurations and I didn’t care for them. I...

Here are a few screw drivers that have been in my family for a long time. Some of them date from the early 1950s. They belonged to my late grandfather and father. The first pic are all Proto. The earliest catalog I can find is 1954. They are marked: Proto 9688 8” #4 Phillips Proto 9604 4”...

Does anyone know what these wrenches were designed for? They are heavy and stout. I thought they were made for heavy equipment or hydraulics. They belonged to my uncle. They are made by Bonney and are marked: Bonney (8) 1 1/4 Bonney (7) 1 1/16 Bonney (5) 7/8 Bonney (3) 11/16 Bonney (1) 1/2...

This is a set of hammer heads that my father collected over the years. They were flea market and garage sale finds. The sizes are Vaughan 32 oz, Powr Kraft 24oz, Craftsman 20oz, Craftsman 16oz, and Herbrand 8oz. Over the last few weeks, I cleaned up the bodies and tried to polish out the...

I just did a restoration of an old Columbian M503 vise. My family has had it since WWII. All of the original paint was gone. I did some research and found that many of them were red. It was taken completely apart, sandblasted, and primed before putting it back together. The jaws were...