Big wrench hammer thing id

[bobIN]

Any idea what brand it is? Or age. Has a trademark that looks like e&l or f&l. Picked it up at a swap meet yesterday.

 

[four.cycle]

^ Schraubenschlussel

check Wolfgang's site to see if you can find a match on that logo (I do not recognize it.)

I am not seeing "E & I" or "F & I" - looks like two crossed hammers.

 

[hobie18]

Wow. Excellent reply. Looks like a xxxxcracker. Or a geld...
What is it actually used for

 

[bobIN]

^ Schraubenschlussel

check Wolfgang's site to see if you can find a match on that logo (I do not recognize it.)

I am not seeing "E & I" or "F & I" - looks like two crossed hammers.

 

[Farmer J.]

I was thinking that logo of the 2 crossed hammers looked vaguely familiar, so i google searched for it.. and found a London football team. Doh. No help at all.

 

[four.cycle]

^ one of the pages on Wolfgang's site is nothing but logos. I scrolled through it but didn't see a match, but that doesn't mean it's not there. I can't make heads or tails of that image in post #4.

I do NOT know if that style of wrench was made by any American manufacturers.

 

[Mintgrun]

I just googled up images using [vintage adjustable t head wrench] and found a similar wrench on ePay that was made in Poland. Once I clicked on that image, more wrenches came up with references to France and the Soviet era.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/225261459057

https://www.ebay.ph/itm/133679844036

I didn't see any with the crossed hammer logo though.

Tom

 

[Private Lugnutz]

@four.cycle The first photo is in focus but zoomed out too far, and the second photo is a close-up but out of focus, but just to orient you, the stylized "E" (if that's what it is) is under the left hammer head, the stylized "&" (if that's what it is) is between the handles, and the stylized "L" (if that's what it is) is under the right hammer head.

@bobIN Can you post a close-up that is in focus?

 

[four.cycle]

^ I pored through my catalog pages from several wholesalers (Shapleigh, Simmons, Hibbard Spencer Bartlett, etc.) but saw nothing of that design. I am pretty sure that's a European thing. ITCL's "Gedore" stuff only goes back to 1950.

Searching "German adjustable wrench" on ebay turns up:

 

[RTM]

Engineers Wrench? No 180 bottom of page.

Meister & Schlingensiepen : Edition 1928 : Meister & Schlingensiepen : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

182 p., illus., 23.2 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

Or a screw close wrench, English pattern

Werkzeug-Katalog : Tool Catalogue : Lohmann & Co. : Lohmann & Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

230 p., illus., 20.1 cm, tool catalog

archive.org

And of course, googling “english pattern” adjustable wrench

Brought nothing of the type, even in google books

 

[four.cycle]

I scoured through 1700 "schraubenschlussel" listings on ebay.de and found a half a dozen matches, but not a one with markings that offered any clues.
Best guess is that "E L" is somebody/something and my guess would be northern Europe: Germany/Poland. The French also manufactured this style, but the examples I saw were more diminutive than the OP's specimen.
This is another one where nomenclature gets in the way. I'm actually not sure I'm using the correct term.

<edit> ... and from those I looked at, they were clearly employed as hammers.

 

[jb books]

Monkey wrench for right and left hand threaded nuts/bolts?
Or adjustable metric/SAE?
Other than that I have no idea, but it is a cool wrenchammer