Sargent ... uh ... thing?

[rusty]

Ok, I had to buy this at the flea, because I have not the slightest tiniest clue what it is, might be, or could possibly be.
For all I know it is for knocking out frogs so they are easier to catch ....

[Lewill2]

Box scraper.

[1930]

http://www.sargent-planes.com/98/sargent-no-52-adjustable-scraper/

[rusty]

Ahhh...Kewl. Thanks : )

The swivel thing didn't help , never saw a sideways scraper with a holddown handle before....

I suppose I will have to go see if it works now....
The fact that you can use all four sides of the blade doesn't seem to anticipate the case where all four sides are rusty tho ; P

[scottg]

Could scrape boxes or anything else, but is called a yacht scraper most often. The heavy top handle/hold down that swivels is unusual. Most of the heavy frame models are stationary.
Getting the barnacles off the bottom of boats is horrible, I hear. Never heard anyone recommend the job anyway. So there were about a million patents over that little chore.
OK plenty of patents regardless.

  Leonard Bailey was involved with Sargent for a while. Leonard, the genius of wood tools.
After Leonard got pissed at Stanley he started another company and made tools of his own again. Victor and Defiance tools.  Sargent was his biggest distributor.
  When the last of Leonard/Stanley's patents ran out, Sargent made bench planes, competing with Stanley, all the way up to 1958. The best of them, the VBM (very best made) models, were made for a shorter time than I thought, until this morning wen I was reading up on it.  Just the teens and 20's, more or less.
  yours Scot
 

   

[Branson]

Go to :
http://toolemera.com/Trade%20Catalogs/tradecatalogs190.html

Scroll down to "UNION IRON AND WOOD PLANES, UNION MFG. CO., New Britain, Conn, U.S.A., Warehouse, 100 Chambers St, New York. c1905."

Download the *free* pdf file of this catalog, and refer to pages 38 & 39

Sargent wasn't the only company benefiting from Bailey's disaffection with Stanley.  Your scraper is fully described.

[rusty]

Neat, Union's has locking teeth so the handle doesn't slip...(and the top handle looks a lot more comfortable to hold....hmm