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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: JPRI on April 26, 2015, 02:13:55 PM

Title: Who made this wrench?
Post by: JPRI on April 26, 2015, 02:13:55 PM

It's @4-1/4" long.  I thumbed through both Cope 1830-1915, and Schulz's, and couldn't find it.

Title: Re: Who made this wrench?
Post by: Papaw on April 26, 2015, 02:58:51 PM

Looks like a mark on the body. Can't make it out at all?

Title: Re: Who made this wrench?
Post by: JPRI on April 26, 2015, 03:14:49 PM

I looped it and couldn't make out anything.

Title: Re: Who made this wrench?
Post by: Papaw on April 26, 2015, 03:21:51 PM

Could be a GEM by Tower & Lyon, but I don't see one like it in the pictures of GEM and T&L that I see.

Title: Re: Who made this wrench?
Post by: JPRI on April 26, 2015, 04:39:05 PM

I though it may be made by Whitman & Barnes or Speirs & Co.

Title: Re: Who made this wrench?
Post by: mvwcnews on April 26, 2015, 04:45:20 PM

Peck, Stow & Wilcox made a similar design called the STAR Bicycle Wrench in 1897 (see pg. 11, June 1995 MVWC Newsletter for a copy from IRON AGE) , but it was an open "skeleton" handle all the way, not closed in between the fixed jaw & adjusting nut.  Are there any marks on the shank of the movable jaw?

Title: Re: Who made this wrench?
Post by: JPRI on April 26, 2015, 04:55:56 PM

Nothing on the shank either.  Here's an open pic.