ID this pipe wrench with a threaded tailpiece

[3jakes]

I see no manufacturer ID, no stamping beyond the 14 on the jaw.
I suppose a handle piece/grip is missing that is bolted in place with the threaded tail piece.

 

[d42jeep]

It is missing it’s wooden handle and cap. This is purely a guess, but it might have been made by Danielson based on the size stamping on the jaw.
-Don

 

[3jakes]

It is missing it’s wooden handle and cap. This is purely a guess, but it might have been made by Danielson based on the size stamping on the jaw.
-Don

Thanks, Looks like a logical guess.
Maybe this was a Monday/Friday wrench.
The head was for the all metal version in your photos, & the tail for the wood handle version.

Edit:
Searching ebay, for Danielson, I found a wood handle example with stamping on the handle right next to the wood on the flat part of the shaft.
Mine is so badly pitted, no doubt the stamping is lost.
Mystery solved.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-J-...486881?hash=item2d1b79ab61:g:Jh4AAOSwRg9d8SGd

Interesting to me, since this wrench came in a bucket with a nice old Crescent Jamestown NY adjustable, I googled the town. Nothing on Wiki about Danielson that I see, but it is the home of "Lucy"
"The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center is dedicated to the city's best-known daughter, Lucille Ball, and held a ceremony in honor of what would have been Ball's 100th birthday in August 2011. Washington Street Bridge has also been fully rebuilt and renovated and renamed the Luci Desi Bridge."

 

[3jakes]

But wait, ... there's more...
Here out of the same bucket is a
R. Gustafson Tool Co. 8" wrench that looks of the same pedigree.
I can find no info on that company.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Nothing on Wiki about Danielson that I see,...

We have a J.P. Danielson thread, if you're interested in reading more about the company and seeing other tools. Founder split from Crescent. Best known for very early Auto Kit wrench sets with "Batman" size fields, BET'R GRIP adjustable wrenches with a square throat, CONTROLLED STEEL brand DOE wrenches, and being bought by Plomb in 1946.See Index in Sticky.

Tool Archives has a good company bio, as does Alloy Artifacts.

 

[david_gus]

But wait, ... there's more...
Here out of the same bucket is a
R. Gustafson Tool Co. 8" wrench that looks of the same pedigree.
I can find no info on that company.

The R. Gustafson Tool Co. was a Jamestown, NY-based company owned by my grandfather, the late Raymond Gustafson. He had a close relationship with the Crescent Tool Co. and would buy many – if not all – of their defects or damaged merchandise directly from the factory and then re-assemble them into working tools. Under terms of their agreement, the name "Crescent Tool" could not appear on the item, but it was understood to those who purchased them what they were receiving.

My grandfather died in 1965. Here's a blurb from the local newspaper:

• A former Jamestown businessman was killed when his home on Little Bone Run Road, Frewsburg, caught fire. Raymond G. Gustafson, 53, was found in his bed near a large fireplace of his two-story bungalow type home. Fire Chief Edward R. Derby said the home was virtually leveled when he and his men arrived. The fire was discovered by a neighbor who lived a mile away. Gustafson was known as the owner of the Gustafson Tool and Supply Shop and Jamestown Aluminum Products in Brooklyn Square.

Although tens of thousands of various Crescent turned Gustafson Tools were sold, I've only seen a few in the real world, including a small set of pliers I purchased for my 82-year-old father last year. In the event you decide to part with that wrench, I would cherish having it in my collection.

Thanks so much for sharing.

David Gustafson
Hattiesburg, Miss.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

He had a close relationship with the Crescent Tool Co. and would buy many – if not all – of their defects or damaged merchandise directly from the factory and then re-assemble them into working tools.

Now that is a nifty business model. And "our" kind of toolhound. Thanks for posting, David. Great story. Knowing 3jakes, I bet this works out right.

 

[3jakes]

The R. Gustafson Tool Co. was a Jamestown, NY-based company owned by my grandfather, the late Raymond Gustafson. He had a close relationship with the Crescent Tool Co. and would buy many – if not all – of their defects or damaged merchandise directly from the factory and then re-assemble them into working tools. Under terms of their agreement, the name "Crescent Tool" could not appear on the item, but it was understood to those who purchased them what they were receiving.

My grandfather died in 1965. Here's a blurb from the local newspaper:

• A former Jamestown businessman was killed when his home on Little Bone Run Road, Frewsburg, caught fire. Raymond G. Gustafson, 53, was found in his bed near a large fireplace of his two-story bungalow type home. Fire Chief Edward R. Derby said the home was virtually leveled when he and his men arrived. The fire was discovered by a neighbor who lived a mile away. Gustafson was known as the owner of the Gustafson Tool and Supply Shop and Jamestown Aluminum Products in Brooklyn Square.

Although tens of thousands of various Crescent turned Gustafson Tools were sold, I've only seen a few in the real world, including a small set of pliers I purchased for my 82-year-old father last year. In the event you decide to part with that wrench, I would cherish having it in my collection.

Thanks so much for sharing.

David Gustafson
Hattiesburg, Miss.

David,
Terribly sorry that I no longer have the wrench, or I would be sending it your way.
Thanks for sharing that story.
All these tool companies that had a single man that had a vision & acted upon it.
very cool.

 

[Fromsouptonuts]

The R. Gustafson Tool Co. was a Jamestown, NY-based company owned by my grandfather, the late Raymond Gustafson. He had a close relationship with the Crescent Tool Co. and would buy many – if not all – of their defects or damaged merchandise directly from the factory and then re-assemble them into working tools. Under terms of their agreement, the name "Crescent Tool" could not appear on the item, but it was understood to those who purchased them what they were receiving.

My grandfather died in 1965. Here's a blurb from the local newspaper:

• A former Jamestown businessman was killed when his home on Little Bone Run Road, Frewsburg, caught fire. Raymond G. Gustafson, 53, was found in his bed near a large fireplace of his two-story bungalow type home. Fire Chief Edward R. Derby said the home was virtually leveled when he and his men arrived. The fire was discovered by a neighbor who lived a mile away. Gustafson was known as the owner of the Gustafson Tool and Supply Shop and Jamestown Aluminum Products in Brooklyn Square.

Although tens of thousands of various Crescent turned Gustafson Tools were sold, I've only seen a few in the real world, including a small set of pliers I purchased for my 82-year-old father last year. In the event you decide to part with that wrench, I would cherish having it in my collection.

Thanks so much for sharing.

David Gustafson
Hattiesburg, Miss.

Hey David, I have a pair of thin nosed pliers you might be interested in.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Hey David, I have a pair of thin nosed pliers you might be interested in.

Note that David was only here for two days, with 1 post. You can try to PM him and he may have his profile set to receive emails.