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Woodworking Forum => Woodworking Forum => Topic started by: Lewill2 on July 20, 2011, 06:56:13 PM

Title: Crescent Chisel
Post by: Lewill2 on July 20, 2011, 06:56:13 PM

I picked this wood chisel up the other day at a flea market.
Marked,
MFD By S&H Co Division of
Crescent Tool Co. Jamestown NY
No 175-1in.
Made In USA

Who is the S&H Co?

Title: Re: Crescent Chisel
Post by: kxxr on July 20, 2011, 08:17:41 PM

From the Alloy Artifacts website:
By 1926 Crescent had acquired the Smith & Hemenway Company, a maker of pliers and other tools in operation since the early 1900s (or before). Crescent continued to use the S&H factory in Irvington, New Jersey, and the full S&H product line was added to the Crescent catalogs beginning with catalog No. 17 in (late) 1926. Incidentally, catalog No. 17 appears to have been the first catalog published by Crescent's own printing facility.
The Smith and Hemenway Company has a small section of their own on the AA website.
http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/smith-hemenway.html

Title: Re: Crescent Chisel
Post by: Lewill2 on July 21, 2011, 08:17:57 AM

Thank You kxxr, I keep forgetting to go to Alloy Artifacts for some reason.

Title: Re: Crescent Chisel
Post by: Branson on July 21, 2011, 09:33:16 AM

One just sold on eBay -- 320724172601 -- went for $16.49 with $3.50 shipping.