Looking for some help on a strange old wrench I found while cleaning tack boxes left behind after my father passed. He came from a long farming family, used draft horses so im assuming its just a crappy wrench they had around.
never seen anything like it though until yesterday.
It looks like this patent, stillson. Stillson wrench, U.S. patent #95,744. There ar no casting marks on the handle, just stamps. Ste - Son, Boston MA and on the stuff on the other side. I didnt want to clean it up just to read it.
The upper jaw has casting indentations, one side a oblong diamond, the other a weird arrow shape, both of these stamped in the handle too.
its small like 6-8 inches and just looking for info. I like the spring mechanism that keeps the jaw open but closed when needed, never seen that before.
Thank you in advance, pictures included.