Coes Wrench Vintage Catalog / Advertising

four.cycle · Apr 24, 2016

Coes Wrench Company - Worcester Massachusetts

Vintage Catalog / Advertising

1900 Farwell Ozmun Kirk & Co. catalog Hercules Acme Coe wrench ad pp 115 by four.cycle, on Flickr

1910 Begelow & Dowse Co. catalog Coes Pexto ad pp 53 by four.cycle, on Flickr

1911 Iron Age Hardware catalog Coes Wrench ad pp 101 by four.cycle, on Flickr

1917 Pacific Hardware & Steel Co. catalog Elgin Coe's Wrench ad pp 87 by four.cycle, on Flickr

1917 Pacific Hardware & Steel Co. catalog Girard Yankee Coe's P.S.&W. Wrench ad pp 84 by four.cycle, on Flickr

1924 Union Hardware & Metal Co. catalog Coe Wrench ad pp 558 by four.cycle, on Flickr

1926 Hardware Buyers Catalog Coes Wrench ad pp 875 by four.cycle, on Flickr

woody 73 · Apr 24, 2016

Good job op thanks for posting it. :thumbup:

WWShop · Apr 24, 2016

Something else I now have to try to find and buy. Really cool!

Ole Slewfoot · Apr 24, 2016

sweet multipage brochure
http://maxeskin.com/making/wrench/brochure.pdf
found in this article
http://maxeskin.com/blog/2014/11/30/dot-dot-dot-and-my-wrench/

woody 73 · Apr 25, 2016

In 1928 Bemis & Call (B&C) acquires the Coe wrench line, The following picture is stamped B&C only.

woody 73 · Apr 25, 2016

In 1939 B&C is bought by Billings & Spencer (B&S); A picture of B&C plus B&S.

woody 73 · Apr 25, 2016

The following pair are marked B&S only.

four.cycle · Feb 15, 2018

CTyankee · Feb 16, 2018

Funny this thread was brought back by four.cycle. Going thru my "collection" of old tools the other day came across this one I had pickup up a few years ago. I think it has a pat'd date of May 4, 1869, but eyes aren't what they use to be.

Love the cool catalogs and advertising. I'm gonna print a couple to keep with my wrench.

four.cycle · Feb 17, 2018

^ I'm going to make a wild guess and say patent 89702

http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=13998

Old Radar · Aug 29, 2020

Looks like it's time for the biennial resurrection of this thread!

First I'd like to thank four.cycle for starting the thread and for all the great catalog pages!

I was thumbing through my neighborhood “Nextdoor” website and saw an ad for “Ford Wrenches”. The ad had been up a week or two and the Ford wrenches were gone but the owner wanted to get rid of the remaining monkey wrenches and made me an offer I couldn’t pass up.

I need 36 monkey wrenches like I need another 36 holes in my head, but at $20 for the lot, that works out to $0.55 each.

The small ones are 6", most are 8", a few 10" and a single 12".

There are:
11 Coe’s
5 (maybe 7) P.S.&W. (Peck, Stow & Wilcox) (Pexto)
2 Bemis & Call H&T Co. (B&C)
2 W&B (Whitman & Barnes)
1 Hibbard
1 H.D. Smith & Co.
1 Sargent
1 Billings
1 Marshall Wells Hdwe Co.
7 Tantalizingly close-but-not-quite-readable
3 Unmarked
1 Boos Tool Corp adjustable wrench – not a monkey wrench

I know these things are a dime a dozen—damn, I really DID overpay—but I’m already enjoying researching their history. If anyone has any insight into any of them, I’d appreciate hearing about it.

Thanks

Farmer J. · Aug 29, 2020

Wow, an instant and very nice wrench collection for $20 !

Private Lugnutz · Oct 1, 2020

Picked up this tiny jobbie at the flea market this morning. The jaws need to be dressed up, and I don't think there's anything special about it, although I have never seen the marking on the flip side before (See Pic 3). EDIT: I guess perhaps it was made before 1869, when Loring and Aury started fighting, and Loring demanded credit, or after 1881, when they made up, and were joined in a single enterprise again, and the credit was a stipulation. But that's all speculation, I know the history of the related companies is exceedingly complex.

Old Radar · Oct 2, 2020

Lugz--All the Coes' wrenches I have in the group above have that stamp on the reverse face.

Private Lugnutz · Oct 2, 2020

Thanks.

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