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Offline Papaw

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Spencer or Spenser?
« on: February 02, 2016, 07:57:11 PM »
In preparing some bicycle wrenches for Ebay i noticed something curious.
An 8" wrench marked Billings and SPENSER, not the usual Billings and SPENCER. Reading up on it I don't see SPENSER anywhere.
Thoughts?
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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2016, 08:13:47 PM »
I think some one made a bobo. I wonder how many got out before they caught it.
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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2016, 08:32:07 PM »
you may have a collectors item Papaw.

it's too late to fire the person who set that up.
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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2016, 08:38:27 AM »
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I have a Blue Point Snap-On 8" adjustable with a forged-in misspelling. It claims to have been made in KENOSHA, WISCONSON.
Maybe we have a whole new collecting category!
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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2016, 09:45:54 AM »
Yup, definitely an "oops." It was always "Spencer."  Put it on eBay as a "one of a kind" misprint, worth more than upside down airplanes and any doublestrike.......you may get lucky.
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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2016, 07:56:33 PM »
Photos of Charles Ethan Billings & Christopher M. Spencer appeared on pgs. 14-15 of the June 2015 MVWC Newsletter.
As to how a die maker  (or a name stamp maker)  screwed up a company name -- we'll never know.

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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2016, 10:22:29 PM »
Stan- Should I save it and hope for high value?
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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2016, 04:02:19 PM »
Quote from: Papaw on February 03, 2016, 10:22:29 PM
Stan- Should I save it and hope for high value?
Don't know about value -- are there "error" wrench collectors the way there are "error" collectors for stamps, coins, & currency?  I know there are malleable implement wrenches where some part of the markings are missing in some examples -- a letter fell off one of the masters or the sand shifted before the iron was poured.  And somewhere in past newsletter someone noted a drop forged wrench where a die had been "repaired" creating a backwards "S" in U.S.A.
As they say in the auction business -- you'll know more after the hammer drops -- in the mean time you have a conversation piece.
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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2016, 03:03:22 AM »
Very interesting :)
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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2016, 05:06:00 AM »
I don't know if that is actually an "S".
If you look in the area of the marking there are quite a few diagonal marks. One of those marks could have landed just right to make the "C" look like an "S".

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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2016, 10:59:18 AM »
Could be, since no one has ever seen Spenser before. I will try for a macro shot of it .
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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2016, 03:21:27 PM »
Some closer shots. Studying the other S and C strikes, I still see it as an S.

 



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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2016, 03:48:21 PM »
I see 8PENSER
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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2016, 07:30:55 PM »
 no question about it, it is  Spenser  !
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Re: Spencer or Spenser?
« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2016, 06:52:32 AM »
I totally agree with Bunger and Pawpaw :grin:
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