We've all seen tools that looked like they went home with some employee or were factory 2nds, etc. Unfinished, poorly stamped or whatever. Here are some tools that were donated to the Polk County Oregon Historical Society Museum yearly fundraiser and appear to be 20's era P&C. I got them from a cool dude who always comes up with good stuff and found these on the last day of the sale. Only the small offset 9/16 wrench on the far left of the 1st pic is marked P&C but all the others have P&C characteristics and the look. The 1st tool on the left is their "one man" offset box wrench so that one guy could get the nut and bolt on the Model T Ford crank case without help. The "special double offset socket wrench" 2nd from the left can be found in the very earliest catalogs and in my experience are very scarce. 3rd from the left, the short bend offset socket wrenches are out there, though the 6 pts like this one being a little less common than the 12 pts. Next are what looks like 3 socket wrenches that never received their bend. Does anyone have pictures of the chronological forging process of a socket wrench like this being made? The speeder on the far right has P&C features too though not as definitive IMO as the other wrenches, it came in the lot as well. The short bend, the double socket wrench and the speeder all have a W or M in parenthesis so I don't know if that was the original liberator's ID or what. The 3 straight fixed socket wrenches are unmarked and do not appear to have ever been marked....Anyway, pretty unusual and early stuff if you're into P&C.
