On the way home from the flea market, I did stop by one sale that had concluded and picked through the tools that were left. This was a guy form Germany preparing to move back in a couple weeks. Kinda cool to see all his power tools with the adapters so they can run on US outlets. He even had a 50' oooopps, I mean a 16.2 meter) extension cord with the Euro prongs. Prolly headed for the scrap yard.
I must say I was underwhelmed at the quality of some of these "house" brands. The only Bosch item he had was an old school ignition dwell tester which was pretty cool to look at, but no one on the block has contact points in their car, so I couldn't play with it. Even the two socket sets looked like they could've come from Asia. NO Stahlwille, Gedore or Dowidat that's for sure.
Certainly a unique if not averagely built pliers was in this photo below. It's 18 inches long and the paint on it is pretty hoaky. Those of you fluent in German can interpret as you see fit.
End of report.
DM&FS