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Help Identify This Old Vise

ViserMen

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Hope to get some help identifying this vise. It doesn't have any other marking than the sticker with text NIOBE? and the No. 2 marks. Jaws are 3,34646" wide and it weights 19,6 pounds. Located in Finland.

Thank you in advance.


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tool_scrounge

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Nice vise and great photos. It reminds me a lot of a British Woden vice. But the stiffeners on the base where the moving jaw exists is vertical - where on Woden, Paramo and Record vices it is more sloped.
 
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Shiftless

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I’m in for the answer to this one. It’s more than a bit unusual to label a vise with the name of a woman from Greek mythology who had all of her children slaughtered to punish her for bragging.
 

thehorse13

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The label appears to read, "Niobe" but I've never seen one of these nor have I ever heard of this company. Judging solely from the fonts on the No. 2, it looks very early 20th century.
 
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