Agreed. That's what I was alluding to. Well-aligned for hand-punched, but note that the spaces between letters are all over the place and not the same on both wrenches. But they could be shop-made and the name could be the name of a shop or another business that had a tool crib, proprietarily.
Agreed. That's what I was alluding to. Well-aligned for hand-punched, but note that the spaces between letters are all over the place and not the same on both wrenches. But they could be shop-made and the name could be the name of a shop or another business that had a tool crib, proprietarily.
X-posted with wrenchguy. Agreed, wrenchguy.
That's a very strong lead, Jim. Regardless of whether they were machined out of a piece of flat stock steel or punched out of a sheet of pressed steel, my point was that they were crudely made, that "W. Hutton" may not be the name of a hand tool manufacturer, and, given the dearth of information about and other examples of products from a tool manufacturer by that name, probably isn't the name of a hand tool manufacturer, and I think you've possibly further evidenced that for yourself. EDIT: It's not an uncommon name, either, and might be the proprietary marking of the name of a small shop or factory, as I said. If so, you'll probably never track that down. I'd go with the British cutlery maker. It's more interesting!
