Pierce Arrow Hammer

[NJ Marty]

I stopped at a few sales with the GF over the weekend and she got a good one. I taught her all the good stamps to look for on tools and the ones to avoid. At one sale this weekend she walks up to me with a ball peen and asks if Pierce is a good brand. Holy ****, I told her to hold on to it tightly and buy it.
I have never come across anything Pierce and she lucked out and I am happy for her.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

That looks as if it was made for Pierce Arrow by Fairmount Tool and Forging, which is the logo on the other cheek.

 

[3baygarage]

That's a real nice find!

 

[woody 73]

NJ I like your thinking but that hammer leaves me with so many unanswered questions.

It is a Fairmount hammer, so that leaves me thinking maybe??? they had branded it with the name Pierce Arrow (like in a line), or did they have other lines with different names???

What we need is a look in the Fairmount catalog from many years ago to either verify it or did they contract out to the car company for a special made hammer that went into a car tool kit???

Many unanswered questions.

 

[rsanter]

Perhaps it's from the pierce arrow factory and was marked to reduce theft

Bob

 

[NJ Marty]

NJ I like your thinking but that hammer leaves me with so many unanswered questions.

It is a Fairmount hammer, so that leaves me thinking maybe??? they had branded it with the name Pierce Arrow (like in a line), or did they have other lines with different names???

What we need is a look in the Fairmount catalog from many years ago to either verify it or did they contract out to the car company for a special made hammer that went into a car tool kit???

Many unanswered questions.

All good questions. we seached for a good long time and could not find another hammer like it. The only ones we found were by Cheney. Cheney had a contract so Im thinking Fairmount could have also. Either way it must have been a small run as how many luxury cars were being sold back in the teens and 1920"s

 

[Stuart in MN]

Did Pierce-Arrow cars come with a toolkit? Perhaps it's part of that kit.

 

[3baygarage]

It would be from a tool kit. Like Ricky Joe said, Fairmount made some of their wrenches. So did Williams and Billings & Spencer.

 

[woody 73]

Did Pierce-Arrow cars come with a toolkit? Perhaps it's part of that kit.

Very good question we need someone with knowledge of that car company.

 

[Stuart in MN]

Interestingly, Bull asked the same question about a hammer some years ago: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=156809

Here's a picture of a Pierce-Arrow toolkit, including a hammer: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/19414734_vintage-pierce-arrow-factory-original-tool-kit

 

[woody 73]

So the mystery is coming together Stuart good job.

 

[crguy]

Great find, congratulations! I once had a Pierce Arrow jack.

 

[2oolhound]

I stopped at a few sales with the GF over the weekend and she got a good one. I taught her all the good stamps to look for on tools and the ones to avoid. At one sale this weekend she walks up to me with a ball peen and asks if Pierce is a good brand. Holy ****, I told her to hold on to it tightly and buy it.
I have never come across anything Pierce and she lucked out and I am happy for her.

Good find Marty but there's something wrong with this story. She did a great job on sniffing this thing out but you need to teach her how to fetch and retrieve now.

 

[Hawk]

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/v...arrow-oem-wrench-found-unlikely-venue-311394/

About half the way down the forum page.

 

[Lassen Forge]

Car owners tool kit. Very cool find, and when you find something like that sometimes it's worth sorting thru the rest of the pile to see if there's any more like that. There's a whole genre around collecting automotive tools from different marques... I try to avoid it (usually unsuccessfully) as that's an addiction all of its own.

Good score!

 

[DOlsen]

I ran across a Pierce-Arrow / Fairmount Ball Peen Hammer at a swap meet about two years ago. It was marked with the name Fairmount, not the logo as on this one.

I paid $2 for it, and I sold it on eBay for over $60.

 

[SilverDeck]

That is an amazing piece! I've never seen one like it either. Great find!

 

[Antique Trimmer]

Marty, did your GF sell the hammer? If not, let me know. I'm looking for Pierce Arrow logo tools.