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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: rusty on August 19, 2012, 02:31:39 PM

Title: Weird German Logo?
Post by: rusty on August 19, 2012, 02:31:39 PM
Almost looks like a question mark, how appropriate, I have no clue whose mark this is...
Title: Re: Weird German Logo?
Post by: OilyRascal on August 19, 2012, 03:17:23 PM
My wife (of Germany) has no clue.
Title: Re: Weird German Logo?
Post by: johnsironsanctuary on August 19, 2012, 03:23:03 PM
The logo looks like that is a Hi-Li wrench. They are used in Florida for gambling.
Title: Re: Weird German Logo?
Post by: rusty on August 19, 2012, 04:58:01 PM

I see your three spanners, and raise you a monkey....
Title: Re: Weird German Logo?
Post by: Billman49 on August 20, 2012, 02:25:58 AM
On Wolfgang Jordan's website on German Woodworking tools (http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/jordan/index.phtml) there is a page which lists all the known (to him) German tool makers and their marks...

see: http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/deutsch.phtml and http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/marken.phtml

Oily Rascal - you may need your wife to help with this..... it's all in German....
Title: Re: Weird German Logo?
Post by: lbgradwell on August 31, 2012, 07:23:47 AM
Quote from: Billman49 on August 20, 2012, 02:25:58 AM
On Wolfgang Jordan's website on German Woodworking tools there is a page which lists all the known (to him) German tool makers and their marks...

Holy crap! Quite the list!

Thanks for the link...
Title: Re: Weird German Logo?
Post by: Branson on August 31, 2012, 08:26:50 AM
Quote from: rusty on August 19, 2012, 02:31:39 PM
Almost looks like a question mark, how appropriate, I have no clue whose mark this is...

There was a fascination with secret alphabets in the earlier 20th Century, and Germany had been fascinated even longer.  This mark looks like a some of the "cabalistic" alphabets popular back then.  A somewhat similar alphabet was included in a Scouting book in 1915 -- little squares with dots in them and in different configurations.
Title: Re: Weird German Logo?
Post by: rusty on August 31, 2012, 06:23:28 PM

Oh, great, i have a Rune Wrench ;P
Title: Re: Weird German Logo?
Post by: Branson on August 31, 2012, 07:22:26 PM
Quote from: rusty on August 31, 2012, 06:23:28 PM
Oh, great, i have a Rune Wrench ;P

There, there.  It's OK.  You have a Rune Wrench, and I have a Wizard Wrench.  But there's hope!  A similar alphabet was used by tramps back in the day.