Champion wrench?

[LesserSon]

Champion Hardware Company, Geneva OH, founded 1883 in Cleveland as Champion Safety Lock and Novelty Co. Registered March 9, 1885. (bizapedia) Sold in 1954, closed in 1957.
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Vintage machinery mentions this vise. There are three variations of the casting: plain font with “pat applied for,” plain font with “pat’d 1-2-17,” and script logo with “patented.” I have the first version. (other examples from eBay listings)
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View attachment 2475869They made garage vises (photo from eBay listing). Unless that’s Champion Blower’s logo, LOL!View attachment 2475857
They made iron toys, too (stillbankclub).
Worthpoint has info, too, including a nice photo of the script logo at bottom of the page.
I had thought Stanley bought the company, based on castings I’ve seen of cabinet hardware, and similarity of L-shaped Stanley carpenter vises to the Champion model. But the stillbankclub article states they made components for other manufacturers, so maybe that’s the relationship. I actually removed and dismantled a cabinet latch looking for the logo, but my memory seems to have pointed to the wrong cabinet. I’ll try a few others.
Note that their script logo is very similar to one Champion Blower used, with the “C” extending under the rest of the letters (like the Colt and Coca-Cola logos), so at a casual glance products of the two companies could be mis-attributed.

So a little catalog research shows that the garage vise in my previous post really is a Champion Blower, underscoring the easy confusion of the logos: CB logo has lowercase script letters, Champion Hardware is all caps.

 

[MAD]

That's a cool vise! I have a Champion B&F post drill that i removed from the barn when my wife's mom and dad moved off the family farm. I asked my father-in-law if he was sure he didn't want to hold on to this piece of family history, but he deferred. He had no love for it, having been assigned many drilling tasks on the old hand cranked relic as a young boy. After digging though the sawdust in the bin below where the drill was hanging, I found the stubby remains of the original bits for it, all ground down to nubs from too many sharpenings.