Found in Fulton, NY

[amecks]

I answered a Craigslist ad and drove up to Fulton to get these odds and ends, most of them fitting in this neat old Craftsman box.

The box is rusty but intact.

That's a Bonney ratchet and the sockets are mostly very old Craftsman, and ChromeXQuality (?).  The little box wrench is a Lectrolite/Tru-Fit.  Ancient Lectrolite adjustable pliers.  Mystery spring plier holder tool - to be posted in What's It forum.  An Allstate spark plug gapper and another nice little gap tool.  Craftsman 9 or ten inch 1/2 Dr extension and a Craftsman punch well mushroomed but the business end is good.  Not sure what the electric tool is called but it works - some type of saw.  On the right is a long hex shaft that ends in 1/2 Drive.  The wood box holds a ratchet - Syracuse Wrench Co. - with driver and 6 and 8 inch extensions and a few sockets.

[Northwoods]

I have that Syracuse Wrench co. rat, but, alas, no other parts of the set.  It has fine, fine teeth when others from that era do not.
Do you suppose that Frank Mossberg socket was supplied with the set?
Later...
I see that one of the AA Syracuse Wrench Co. comments is of a set with 5 of 17 sockets by Mossberg; the others unmarked.  Inconclusive.

[EVILDR235]

I believe I have that same tool box, but with a cast aluminum handle.

EvilDr235

[Northwoods]

I believe I have that same tool box, but with a cast aluminum handle.

EvilDr235

I have the handle, but not the tool box.  ;-( 

[Lewill2]

I'll bite, what is the Allstate item?

[jdjax]

The Allstate tool is for setting the gap on spark plugs. The bent wire parts are wire gauges if you look near the pointed end you can barely make out .025 and .038.  The pointed end of the tool is used to pry open the ground electrode.

[Yadda]

Nice get!

[amecks]

  This tool was cleaned with a brass wire brush, mostly by hand, brushed with Ospho and wiped dry.  Looks much better.  So, what the heck is it called?  I am not brushed up on blacksmith tools  (I used to know a bit).  The tool is stamped or cast with "CHAMPION" on one handle and "MAUDS" on the the other. 
  Who made this, what's it called, and how old is it?

[lptools]

Hello, Al. I would say Farrier's Pincers.Here is an ad from a 1904-1908 catalog for Blacksmith's Tools. Regards, Lou

[amecks]

Thanks, Lou.  I was hoping to sell them but, only $1.32?  (kidding).  Is the Champion name the original name of Champion DeArment?

[Bill Houghton]

I would say the same thing, but they're also dynamite for pulling nails, which is how I use mine (from Diamond Calk etc.)

[lptools]

Hello, Al. I am not able to answer that about Champion, but yours should sell easily. Bill, I believe they were designed to pull horseshoe nails. and there are some that were used to cut the horseshoe nails. Hardly a day goes by when I don't use my bull nose nippers, ( a little different profile from the farrier's pincers ), great for pulling nails out of the back of moldings, door jambs, door casings, etc. Regards, Lou

[bonneyman]

Great box, I'm gonna guess late 1940's. The aluminum handles were 50's.

I use farriers pliers for assembling ductwork on roofs. It allows me - as a lone technician - to pull and hold the two pieces of duct together with one hand while inserting the dive cleat with the other hand.

[mvwcnews]

Thanks, Lou.  I was hoping to sell them but, only $1.32?  (kidding).  Is the Champion name the original name of Champion DeArment?

The original DeArment (a blacksmith) made & sold tools under the CHAMPION brand name. The initial line was farrier's tools.   In the 30's the company began making a "groove joint" pliers they branded ChannelLock & eventually the company name was changed to that as well.