Thank you very much. This is mine exactly. Now I need to learn who MTF made the pliers for.
A smaller company or a retailer.
My MTF research thus far:
http://toolarchives.com/node/2242At the very least, they made stuff for Snap-On, and once Blue Point was established, they made most of that originally. I'm pretty sure the earliest Cornwell rats are from MTF, and they might have had a hand in some early Blackhawk products, namely the ratchet forgings. MTF was part of a larger merger forming Lectrolite in 1932, which you can read about here:
http://toolarchives.com/node/793. So, anything you find with MTF on it was made between 1917 and 1932.