Old logo ID markings guide

[Private Lugnutz]

Almost certainly. Todd and I have already physically compared, measured and verified all of the tools branded Newton, King, Service Engineering, and Boston Wrench. See my thread, linked here.

 

[four.cycle]

I re-read that entire thread before I sent you that stuff this morning on the "Boston Auto Tool" items.

I didn't want to post any of it there - I'll leave that to you as you're far more conversant than I am on that one!

Maybe this is a stupid question.... but have you figured out on a map how far apart these guys were?
And were any of the principals related by blood ties or marriage?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Ah, got it. If that's the case, though, I am not sure why you included a "maybe." The conclusion we reach on that thread is more definitive than that. As for email, I am terrible with it. It usually has no chronological correlation with my other activities. Sorry.

I have not mapped the addresses, except to know they are all in the Boston area. As for relationships, King and Newton shared officers, and they were in a trade association with the officers from Service Engineering. I didn't look deeper into family Bios.

EDIT: The one "maybe" I have with BATCO is that uni joint. That is different from the uni joints in the other sets. But we probably shouldn't clutter up this "lost" type thread with discussion, right?

 

[woody 73]

Vulcan Trademark.

Associated with the J.H. Williams Co.

 

[woody 73]

Spear & Jackson:

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=437385

 

[woody 73]

William Butcher Trade Mark (B)----------->t
Butcher arrow Maltese Cross

Note one of many trade marks from this company.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=437891

 

[four.cycle]

Vaughan & Bushnell
1906 Hardware Dealers Magazine

 

[woody 73]

A double e will stand for the Easco tool company.

Pictures are posted on the following link:

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8463603#post8463603

 

[woody 73]

Quikwerks tools The first letter Q is very special.

The Story:

https://garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=462234

 

[woody 73]

Duro hand tools Trademark:

http://alloy-artifacts.org/duro-indestro.html

 

[woody 73]

The Buffum Tool Company Louisiana, Missouri Trade Mark.

 

[Bryan Burns]

Does anyone have information on the maker of these "Trout" nippers?

The larger one is my favorite pair of nippers and I've had them for years. Recently, I came across a smaller pair and snapped them up.

 

[RTM]

Might be from Trout Harware of Chicago, from the early 1900s

https://books.google.com/books?id=W...#v=onepage&q="trout hardware" chicago&f=false

 

[Bryan Burns]

Might be from Trout Harware of Chicago, from the early 1900s

https://books.google.com/books?id=W...#v=onepage&q="trout hardware" chicago&f=false

Thanks! Logical as I picked them up from the greater Chicago area.

 

[woody 73]

Just a friendly reminder, this is a section for tools that we already know the answer, so that members can look it up and find the maker.

Best to start your new post under your own name asking who made this tool, then later I can add it to this section.

Woody

 

[d42jeep]

Here are a pair of Willard battery wrenches and a Whitaker marked battery wrench made by Bonney. My Bonney experts tell me that it’s dated 1945.
-Don

 

[woody 73]

The Rhode Island Tool Co.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467296

 

[woody 73]

The Special logo for the W. F. Gammeter Co. of Cadiz, Ohio.

The post story for you Today:

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=469940

 

[woody 73]

This has come up before but the consensus on the Garage Journal is that the following logo is that of the J. H. Williams & Company; not the Wiha Tool Company.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=472516

 

[leg17]

This has come up before but the consensus on the Garage Journal is that the following logo is that of the J. H. Williams & Company; not the Wiha Tool Company.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=472516

I've seen the copyright notice posted somehere in etherland, but I didn't keep the reference like I know I should have. Thought it might have been twertsy, but I checked his posts and couldn't find it.
Didn't find it at AA either.

What ever happened to twertsy anyhow?
Don't see much from him lately.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I talk to him offboard. He's been busy with work, personal life, and a reinvigorated healthy lifestyle regime.

 

[leg17]

It was Twertsy.
"'W' with hockey sticks"
J. H. William 1950-1957

http://toolarchives.com/node/332

 

[four.cycle]

these should really all be re-organized alphabetically.

 

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[four.cycle]

that's all I've got for now.

this thread would be way better if these were organized alphabetically.

 

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[toolboxted]

Wooden Machinist Tool Chests, pre-1960

https://sites.google.com/site/theguideforwoodmachinistchests/

 

[four.cycle]

In post #87 there is an earlier Vaughan & Bushnell logo from 1906.

This is a later version from a copy of a 1924 "American Builder"

 

[four.cycle]

Some of you may recognize the name from old axes your grandfather passed down to you.
The Evansville Tool Works also produced tools used for the construction of the railroads.

 

[four.cycle]

Finally found the Evansville "Fox" logo which was stamped on some of their axe heads, as well as their later "Tested" logo.

 

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(courtesy d42jeep)

 

[four.cycle]

WWII era "X-circle" Logo used by Duro Metal Products Co., Chicago, IL

see: http://alloy-artifacts.org/duro-indestro-p2.html#x-circle

(photo courtesy d42jeep)

 

[woody 73]

WWII era "X-circle" Logo used by Duro Metal Products Co., Chicago, IL

see: http://alloy-artifacts.org/duro-indestro-p2.html#x-circle

(photo courtesy d42jeep)

See post #90.

 

[four.cycle]

Ross / Ross Mfg. Co., San Francisco, CA / "Lock Line" locking pliers / patent 2370308 Feb 27 1945 A.G. Hanson / https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=338378 /

"Lock Line" trademark issued Dec. 23, 1952

 

[four.cycle]

Worth / Bigelow & Dowse, 229 Franklin St., Boston, MA / manufactured by Peck, Stow & Wilcox / https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6375720 / http://fishinghistory.blogspot.com/2011/08/52-for-52-bigelow-dowse-of-boston.html /