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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Twertsy on November 17, 2015, 06:38:11 AM

Title: Obscure Bonney Tool - Tomahawk
Post by: Twertsy on November 17, 2015, 06:38:11 AM

Any of you folks ever heard of this tool made by Bonney.  Here's a link to the Trademark for Tomahawk, which is a combination "hammer, hatchet, pincers, wire-cutter, belt-punch, tack claw, screw-driver and wire-splicing clamp."

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn60105480&docId=ORC20051021190507#page=1

Title: Re: Obscure Bonney Tool - Tomahawk
Post by: Papaw on November 17, 2015, 10:17:21 AM

That Tomahawk logo was used on Bridgeport Tomahawk crate hammers. This picture is from Ebay. I have one packed away somewhere.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/rSwAAOSw14xWLTHG/s-l1600.jpg)

Title: Re: Obscure Bonney Tool - Tomahawk
Post by: Twertsy on November 17, 2015, 01:42:14 PM

So do you know if Bonney ever produced any tool leveraging the above trademark?  I don't see it in any of my 'teens catalogs.

Title: Re: Obscure Bonney Tool - Tomahawk
Post by: mvwcnews on November 17, 2015, 06:03:13 PM

My  "database" notes one sale record for  a "BONNEY TOMAHAWK" combination tool with appearance similar to No. 802 in "Antique & Unusual Wrenches" by Schulzes.  A very poor photo appears on pg. 4 of the Sept. 1985 Missouri Valley Wrench Club Newsletter. 
I'm busy the fore part of this evening but later on will dig out the "master" & see if that is any clearer than the 3rd generation photocopy. 

later: image is BONNEY TOMAHAWK compared to RANCHMAN -- sorry don't have better pix.

Title: Re: Obscure Bonney Tool - Tomahawk
Post by: Twertsy on November 17, 2015, 07:17:25 PM

I posed the same question on GG and a gent dug up a pic from worthpoint.  Now I need one.......