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Picture Forum => 6 Inch & Under Club => Topic started by: Hoarder on May 30, 2017, 05:29:21 PM

Title: LEA pocket level
Post by: Hoarder on May 30, 2017, 05:29:21 PM

Another inherited tool find in hollowed out wood handle. I guess this is a pocket level?? LEA MFG CO. PAT Pending. it's exactly 2-3/16 inches long. Besides my best efforts I'm unable to find anything about LEA. Anyone heard of them?

Title: Re: LEA pocket level
Post by: Plyerman on May 30, 2017, 09:27:22 PM

Here's a level patent by Langdon Lea of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Looks an awful lot like yours:

Title: Re: LEA pocket level
Post by: turnnut on May 30, 2017, 09:51:37 PM

 if you google;  lea mfg. co. level,  you will see a few that sold on ebay.   

  sorry, not rare.

Title: Re: LEA pocket level
Post by: Hoarder on May 31, 2017, 09:11:33 AM

Thanks Plyerman that patent appears to nail it and the LEA connection as well. Turnnut I also found these for sale on the internet. It's not that I think it's rare but I'm just curious of the time period. I guess from the patent date these were produced in the late 1920's. Still strange I can find nothing about the company.

Title: Re: LEA pocket level
Post by: Twertsy on July 31, 2017, 10:02:27 AM

Google Biffy Lea