Author Topic: brace bit adaptor, but who is the valentine?  (Read 1945 times)

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Offline skipskip

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brace bit adaptor, but who is the valentine?
« on: February 11, 2013, 06:48:33 PM »
fits into brace and socket goes on it.


but that logo?

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Is he supposed to be an "Indian"?


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FEB 223 by skipskip, on Flickr
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Offline BRwrench

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Re: brace bit adaptor, but who is the valentine?
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2013, 07:19:55 PM »
Early Blackhawk logo.

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Re: brace bit adaptor, but who is the valentine?
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2013, 07:21:49 PM »
OOOOH!!


makes sense, this came with a lot of BH tools, mostly japanned like this.


Thanks

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Re: brace bit adaptor, but who is the valentine?
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2013, 08:03:27 PM »
 Alloy Artifacts has a good writeup on this marking and dates it between 1919 and 1925.
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Re: brace bit adaptor, but who is the valentine?
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2013, 06:30:52 AM »
thar is the coolest tool i have seen in a while.