Show Us Your Cool Tool Logo

[d42jeep]

This one is kind of elegant, in my opinion. I only have this one example.
-Don

 

[Provincial]

Very Classy!

 

[Bryan Burns]

O.V.B. (our very best). Hibbard, Spencer and Bartlett's premium hand tool line.
The brass and rosewood putty knife is the finest I've ever seen.

 

[duddly]

This logo is still a mystery but it is really cool looking! There are no other markings on the wrench, and it came in a lot, so I have no other context.

 

[LesserSon]

That logo caught my eye when you posted it in GS thread. The X reminded me at first of the Western ammunition logo, but wider.
The symbol behind the X is a cross potent
☩
used in heraldry and a significant element in various emblems, including the Jerusalem Cross. I suppose the X could be interpreted as a cross saltire or crux decussate, but the serifs nudge me toward seeing it as a letter. They are just too terminal to make it a cross pattee saltirewise.
I’m not finding that particular combination, though X is often used to represent Christ, chi being the first letter in the Greek spelling.
So maybe some organization for which evangelism had some significance?

Or, more prosaically, some weird early variant of the Triumph logo?

 

[d42jeep]

I spotted this screwdriver on eBay this morning. I’m thinking of making an offer.
-Don

 

[RTM]

Ohhh, the asterisk. Worth and Pexto as mfg was noted elsewhere. How is Red Diamond tied in???? Another Pexto brand for 3rd party marketing?

 

[c1504]

Or, more prosaically, some weird early variant of the Triumph logo?

This made me start thinking of motorcycles and I instantly thought of the Excelsior logo. It’s almost the exact same design.

 

[duddly]

This made me start thinking of motorcycles and I instantly thought of the Excelsior logo. It’s almost the exact same design.

I think you have it! A little more research, but that sure looks right.

I checked around and saw a listing for the same wrench listed as an Excelsior. I put an inquiry into a FB group to see. Thanks again!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Awesome.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

As a WWII GMTK tool collector, the putty knife I am usually on the look-out for is Red Devil brand with an Irvington, NJ address. They are so prevalent that I was a little surprised to even see another company in NJ making putty knives. I found them advertising in a 1940 trade mag, but so far, I have not found any records of wartime contracts. Be that as it may, I love the logo.

 

[Bryan Burns]

"Little Giant"

 

[LesserSon]

I spotted this screwdriver on eBay this morning. I’m thinking of making an offer.
-Don

I am a little late responding, but I believe Red Diamond was a trademark (first use 1930, filed 1948, registered 1951) used by a NYC hardware store. I cannot at the moment recall the store name (NOT the English company Garrington’s).
So RTM’s ID of the OEM as PS&W, based on the asterix, makes sense. Currently on eBay, there is a nipper with a more refined daisy/asterix and a drawknife - both clearly PS&W - plus a NIB hand plane, all with the Red Diamond logo.
I have a brick layers hammer with the same logo, sans asterix

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I am a little late responding, but I believe Red Diamond was a trademark (first use 1930, filed 1948, registered 1951) used by a NYC hardware store. I cannot at the moment recall the store name

Well, I am even later responding and totally missed Part I of this discussion (probably the awesome Excelsior ID threw me...), but Masback, Inc., formerly Masback Hardware Company, owned that TM. It's strange that the JUSTIA site you used included everything but the name of the owner, but going straight to the source once you have a Serial or Registration Number - USPTO's TSDR page (TSDR.USPTO.gov) - never fails.

 

[piehammer]

Still trying to identify this one. I have two sockets like this, both say 'USA' Anyone know this manufacturer?

 

[four.cycle]

^ Litton Industries. There's a LITTON thread here
It was a very short-lived episode in the tool making industry - Litton was another victim of the corporate takeover/merger **** of the 1970s-1980s.

 

[slowtwitch73]

 

[Stillgottimefor1]

Beautiful!! Love this thread.

 

[piehammer]

^ Litton Industries. There's a LITTON thread here
It was a very short-lived episode in the tool making industry - Litton was another victim of the corporate takeover/merger **** of the 1970s-1980s.

Thanks much for the information! Also, I think my next band name is going to be 'Merger ****'.

 

[JjKk40]

Did we find out what the "B" inside a pentagon is? Guy on the bay has a set of offset DBE wrenches listed as "Bonney".

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[LesserSon]

I saw those. There is nothing about them that resembles Bonney DBEs of any era. I checked Alloy Artifacts for pentagon-B logo, but they don’t list one. I don’t know whose mark it is, though they have a Lectrolite look to me.

 

[mogandave]

One of my favorites...

 

[cliftonbros89]

It wasn’t on the tool but I bought something from Thexton that has a cool logo on it. Little cartoon guy with a lion. Can’t find the original picture but this is what it looked like.

 

[savage454]

How about a hybrid? A Vincent brazed to a Billings?

 

[savage454]

I love the look of this one although I'm not sure who made it.

 

[savage454]

Hopefully you can see them, I really dig the logos on these assorted wrenches.

 

[Marvin Berry]

 

[slowtwitch73]

^ Litton Industries. There's a LITTON thread here
It was a very short-lived episode in the tool making industry - Litton was another victim of the corporate takeover/merger **** of the 1970s-1980s.

I'm not sure Litton made anything in the USA. The socket sets I've seen say 'imported from Taiwan'.

 

[tripplejl]

May not be a tool but I like the looks of Nokorode flux.

 

[Gdrock33]

May not be a tool but I like the looks of Nokorode flux.

Wow! I grew up a few streets from the mill where this company was located. Was in operation until 1999 after the assets were purchased by RectorSeal in 1998.

 

[tripplejl]

Wow! I grew up a few streets from the mill where this company was located. Was in operation until 1999 after the assets were purchased by RectorSeal in 1998.

Neat. I didn't realize they sold out. That explains why I haven't seen any on the shelves at my hardware store.

 

[four.cycle]

I'm not sure Litton made anything in the USA. The socket sets I've seen say 'imported from Taiwan'.

there's a bit of stuff about Litton here

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

 

[savage454]

 

[mogandave]

 

[LesserSon]

I love the look of this one although I'm not sure who made it.

That kit wrench is Indestro. Many examples are marked “Indestro Chicago USA” and many more are not.

 

[d42jeep]

Here are some that are Indestro marked.
-Don

 

[slowtwitch73]

Not tool per se, but knife.. close enough. Vintage Puma-Werk.

 

[glenmore]

Thanks to GJ I now know this is a cobblers hammer. Shape is very similar to German ones offered on ebay. Nice blacksmith punch.

 

[nrock08]

Are you willing to sell the Ridgal wrench??