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Title: small pressed steel self adj pipe wrench
Post by: international3414 on January 15, 2014, 04:27:17 PM

6" long with no name,any idea?,,,tia
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll153/richpoor1/th_001-152.jpg) (http://s287.photobucket.com/user/richpoor1/media/001-152.jpg.html)
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll153/richpoor1/th_002-84.jpg) (http://s287.photobucket.com/user/richpoor1/media/002-84.jpg.html)

Title: Re: small pressed steel self adj pipe wrench
Post by: mvwcnews on January 16, 2014, 07:13:03 PM

Erie Stamping & Mfg. Co  "ESCO" is a strong candidate.   I have only seen advertising copy, but those drawings show a piece that looks like this.  Interestingly,  "ESCO" is roughly a century old.
Mind if I use your photos in the Missouri Valley Wrench Club Newsletter?  I have a 1915 wrench manufacturers list I'm working up for the March 2014 issue, and ESCO is on  that list.
A 1914 ad for the ESCO is one of the illustrations for patent no. 1,041,978 in DATAMP ( http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?id=31687 ).

Regards, Stan Schulz, editor Missouri Valley Wrench Club Newsletter

Title: Re: small pressed steel self adj pipe wrench
Post by: international3414 on January 17, 2014, 04:45:50 AM

thank you!!..the teeth show some wear,wonder if it was hardened ?......i can send better photos in natural light,if necessary???....looking forward to march.