Date on Logo SnapOn small kit box

[Neutron12]

This box is not stamped with a date. What year is this logo. Is there a site that has all snap On logos with dates?

 

[MShaw]

I have this 1/4" drive box I purchased around 1960. No idea how much before or after they used this logo.

 

[WWheeler]

I personally have no idea though it occurs to me that this might have been better asked in the Vintage Tool Discussion threads where i suspect there's more members who might know.

That said, I gave it a google and to my eyes the Snap-on 1920s logo looks similar to yours as opposed to the 1930s where the font is a little different and the dash is angled instead of straight like yours, BUT sometime after that (40s/50s?) the logo looks to have changed again and it also looks a lot like yours to my eyes so . If I had to guess I'd probably go with the latter.

[EDIT: Actually on a second take the dash actually is also angled in the 1920s similar to the 30s. So it looks to me sometime around 1950-ish in the pages below the logo starts to look more like yours, so, there's that]

Anywho, you might wade through these pages for a few clues to see if you see something differently than I. Might have better luck putting the images side by side to better compare than my flipping back and forth.

Snap-On: Early Sockets and Drive Tools (~1920s)
http://alloy-artifacts.org/so-early-sockets.html

Snap-on and Blue Point Tools, 1930-1959
http://alloy-artifacts.org/snapon-bluepoint-tools.html

 

[snapmom]

Close to 50

 

[chrisnazzy]

Snap-on has put out a couple different commemorative which sets with the heritage logos and the year they were first used. You might also check out collectingsnapon.com.

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[WWheeler]

Snap-on has put out a couple different commemorative which sets with the heritage logos and the year they were first used. You might also check out collectingsnapon.com.

Weird those wrenches show a cursive logo starting in 1948 but the 1930-1959 alloy artifacts pages have many tools, some with date codes visible showing they are from the 1950s and even some 1960s and I didn't recall seeing any with the cursive logo there. I guess it must have taken a while to get the tooling changed over to the new logo, which if so would make dating just by logo pretty difficult.

Example of one with what looks to me to be a similar logo to the OP's:

http://alloy-artifacts.org/snapon-bluepoint-tools-p4.html



Edit: I don't suppose toolboxes had a date code somewhere like the tools did, huh?

 

[WWheeler]

Hahaha, This will muck things up even more, I took another glance and sure enough I did see one with a cursive logo (might even be more as I had to enlarge this one's image to make it out - see the inset) only it's date code is 1946, which two years before the cursive logo wrench in chrisnazzy's post. lol

http://alloy-artifacts.org/snapon-bluepoint-tools-p4.html



OK I'm done since I don't think I'm adding value.

snapmom says around 1950 seems the best info so far on this thread.

 

[Modern Garage]

Speaking of "mucking things up" , who's to say the logo on the wrench has to perfectly match the logo on the box? Did they necessarily change generationally at the same times?

 

[rrangus]

I have this 1/4" drive box I purchased around 1960. No idea how much before or after they used this logo.

Other than the flex head ratchet and the storage box, you set is identical to the one I bought in 1970