Vintage Adjustable Wrench ID

[mdlave]

Any thoughts? I know Barnes and Whitman & Barnes made adjustable wrenches, with some smaller bicycle wrenches that were very similar. I can't find any others with the flowery "art deco" logo or without the "sunken panel" logo.

 

[four.cycle]

Barnes / Barnes Tool Co., New Haven, CT / patent 282435 Jul 31 1883 & 287899 Nov 6 1883 Elbridge F Barnes & 307163 Oct 28 1884 Elbridge F. Barnes & George A. Barnes & 339813 Apr 13 1886 Patrick Ryan & John Ryan & 476079 May 31 1892 John Ryan / http://alloy-artifacts.org/other-makers.html#barnes / https://www.datamp.org/patents/search/xrefCompany.php?id=1959 /

 

[mdlave]

Thanks, those are some of the similar Barnes Tool wrenches. Has anyone seen a Barnes Tool product with the pictured flowery/art deco "Barnes" logo?

 

[Mintgrun]

Has anyone seen a Barnes Tool product with the pictured flowery/art deco "Barnes" logo?

I googled this one up, but haven't ever seen one in person. It was listed as an 1898 cycle wrench and sold for $30 back in 2018.

Sold - 1898 Barnes cycle wrench | Archive (sold or withdrawn)

Here's a cool TOC 1898 Barnes cycle wrench. Nickel plating is spotty. $30 shipped in the US. Payment via PayPal family and friends is preferred. Please review pictures closely and message me if interested or with questions. -Lester

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[four.cycle]

nope.... only in ebay pictures.
I'm not sure if I have one or not, to be honest.
The Barnes bicycle wrench I own is a different model. (But there's still another box full I didn't photograph yet... I don't remember what all is in there.)
That fancy-scmhantzy "script" model shows up online now and then.

 

[DetailSeeker]

Any thoughts? I know Barnes and Whitman & Barnes made adjustable wrenches, with some smaller bicycle wrenches that were very similar. I can't find any others with the flowery "art deco" logo or without the "sunken panel" logo.

Barnes (bless their little ubiquitously-named hearts, the finks) seems to have come out with bicycle wrenches on a yearly basis in the last decade of the 1800s. I am trying to nail down one of their wrenches for the local tool library, and so far have determined that it is not the 1892, '93, '94, '95, '97, or '98 model.

The one with the flowery script is not the 1898 model, although I've also seen it identified that way online; it is the 1897 model.


(That image is clipped from the bottom left-hand corner of a page in the April 30, 1910 issue of The Bicycling World and Motorcycle Review, which makes it clear that the patterns were not exclusive to the year they came out, which might explain the '98 inscribed on the handle.)

 

[torontotools]

On the topic of vintage wrench ID...K&W Tool Co I can find nothing on this, unless it is the same as K&W Tools?