Cute little guy

[WillM]

My buddy got this at an estate sale in the bottom of a box of tools. I ended up buying it off of him, thought it was pretty cool. Its a Brown and Sharpe and it goes from 0-.300". Battery in picture for reference is a double A.
Does anyone else have one this small? ive never seen one before.

 

[Acosi151]

too cool! maybe a special made to clear the ID of something while in use?

 

[G1GRANDEUR]

pictures are too big to be cute.

 

[AZ_Catskinner]

Those type are usually for gauging sheet stock as it comes off the rolls.

 

[lametec]

Cute little c-clamp!

 

[WillM]

Those type are usually for gauging sheet stock as it comes off the rolls.

Interesting, anyone know how old it is?

 

[cmandp]

My dad has several 0 -.5 inch Brown and Sharpe mikes, but not one that small. Also, you should always store micrometers with the anvils apart (25 to 50 thousands). No reason to have any kind of pressure on the frame or screw for long periods of time.

Cute little c-clamp!

You'd get a knock on the head from me if you used it as such!

 

[DocsMachine]

Interesting, anyone know how old it is?

-Oh, I doubt it's all that old. It's probably only between 100 and 125 years old is all...

No, I'm not kidding. The earliest B&S mics date back to somewhere around the early 1870s, maybe closer to the late 1860s. They were actually originally intended to measure the thickness of a stack/sheaf of thin materials (shim stock sheetmetal) in order to simply count the number of shims.

Check out this thread over on Practical Machinist for more information. Yours isn't anywhere near as rare or valuable as the Palmer that post refers to, but there's some interesting bits on brown & Sharpe in there.

You might even contact that poster (Rivett608) to see if he can nail down a more exact age or even value. He collects them- and is an expert on their histories- he had a museum exhibit up in Kansas City a few years ago.

Doc.