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Another one for the local tool library's vintage group. :) Unfortunately, I can't tell if it works; I'll drop it off tomorrow and someone can test it on one of the grinders or something. It seems to be in decent shape, though. The Auburn Machine Company first appears in Polk's Providence RI...

Creating this thread for Chas. Weiland, Inc.--a New York wholesaler, rather than a manufacturer, but one with a lot of house brands. I was trying to dig up details on a stillson-style pipe wrench from the Parker Tool Co. in New York, and ended up following the thread up to Chas. Weiland, Inc...

I found an automotive wrench with a cast "S & R" label and fell down a rabbit hole. The extremely short version; I believe "S & R" is the Philadelphia-and-elsewhere company "Sanson & Rowland". (It is not "Sears & Roebuck", since the name was "Sears, Roebuck & Co(mpany)". Even the abbreviations...

So the local tool library had many wrenches up for refurbishment, and four which they thought were too far gone - three Stillsons and one of the automotive wrenches. I am a hopeless optimist and was looking to do what I could in the way of repairs, and have hit the point where I realized I...

I have an old pair of button pliers, and no idea who made them. They're generally unremarkable; 7-1/4" long, a little loose, duck-bill jaws with no cutting edge, three wire clipping points. The pivot isn't perfectly round; it has five nubs sticking out around the circumference on the stamped...

This showed up in the donations box at the tool library, and everyone is stumped. It is a small metal box attached to a wooden handle. The top of the box has a grill that slides off, held in place by grime and grooves. Holes are punched in the back of the box, around the handle. A larger hole...

A quick heads-up, for anyone poking around old Buck & Hickman details; there are scans of what purports to be their 1935 catalog, which is earlier than anything I can find at the IA, up at this page. Not in order, and no idea yet if it's complete, but thought I'd pass it along. (I am cleaning...

Cleaning up a pair of bolt cutters for the local vintage tool group (again, I'm in south-eastern Ontario), and between the clearly printed "GRUECO / MADE IN GERMANY" on what I am arbitrarily defining as the front of the head and the "D.R.G.M." on the back of the handles, I thought these would be...