Help ID these boxes

[COL911]

I hit 1/4" pay dirt at a sale today; see new additions alongside S&K diamond set. 2 snap on boxes and another SK!

I'll inventory and clean tomorrow, but I'm really curious about the two, double piano hinged boxes that were included. Latch on one side, pull ring top center, double piano hinge lid. No markings whatsoever, metallic blue hammered paint finish, really well made. Can anyone help identify brand, use etc.? Thanks.

 

[COL911]

Next view. For some reason, can only load one photo at a time....

 

[COL911]

And top view...

 

[Old Man Roger]

Cant help on the boxes, but I have that same cable oiler, works great. Looks like a motorcycle tool kit.

 

[fasteddie]

Looks like some plumbing faucet stem sockets in there.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Looks like some plumbing faucet stem sockets in there.

A lot of motorcycle tool kits use the same style socket.

 

[COL911]

Thanks, Roger. I think there's some old points in the photo, too. Neat old boxes, though; still hoping I can find where they came from. I searched motorcycle tool boxes, but nothing I found online looks like these. Still have to inventory the rest of the 1/4 inch sets and post pix.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Someone on here will know.

 

[COL911]

Bump; nobody recognize these boxes?

 

[Oldtuleguy]

They are cool. May not be toolboxes, maybe just some old metal boxes repurposed.

 

[Old Man Roger]

They are cool. May not be toolboxes, maybe just some old metal boxes repurposed.

They do kind of look like a military weapons box.

 

[PelicanPines]

They could be handmade by a metalworker. A friend had to make a box with a piano hinge to pass his apprentice test.

 

[fasteddie]

They look like something that would be attached to a bulkhead inside some kind of vehicle. The latch mounted on the top. Maybe to hold road flares some emergency equipment or something. I seem to remember seeing boxes like that in buses when I was a kid.

 

[COL911]

Too small for flares; sorry I should have posted dimensions from the start: 7 1/2" X 4 1/4 X 2 1/8 tall

They have remenants of metallic blue paint, so I wonder if they could be from Montgomery Ward or some other chain no longer around.