Six Inch and Under from Auction

[Bus]

Picked these up at the Shockman Auction in York last April.  Several under 4" and all under 6" including oddball, orphans, two governor wrenches, several lawn mower wrenches and a Parker vise wrench I didn't have, etc. The three lots (not counting the brass Bulldog wrench which was in a separate lot) averaged out to around 75 cents each wrench.

[rusty]

Some very fun wrenches in there :)

I love the one with the giant opening and tiny opening combined.

Has anyone ever figured out what the 13 wrench fits?

Bottom, right, 4th up, weird logo, oval, line, 3 slashes, what is that logo?

[HeelSpur]

That's an interesting group, I really like the two with the wide openings.

[DM11]

Reckon that is a interesting bunch of wrenches!

[gibsontool]

For 75 cents apiece that's a very good deal. Do you know what the y shaped wrench in the bottom center is? I have one very similar if not the same but mine has no markings and I haven't been able to find any info on it.

[Lostmind]

Nice grouping , nice background , nice photo.
Thanks for taking the time to share.

[Bus]

Has anyone ever figured out what the 13 wrench fits?

Bottom, right, 4th up, weird logo, oval, line, 3 slashes, what is that logo?

Rusty, As far as I know the "13" wrench is still an orphan.

Below is a pic of the three slash logo. Wrench is marked "Accles Limited - Perry Barr". It's an English
company that started out by making tubular frames for bicycles. Couldn't find anything on the logo.

[Bus]

For 75 cents apiece that's a very good deal. Do you know what the y shaped wrench in the bottom center is? I have one very similar if not the same but mine has no markings and I haven't been able to find any info on it.

The Y-shaped wrench is marked " MF 114 NLH". I already had a similar wrench marked MF-112-OS.

The photo below shows a different style wrench with a similar type part number "MF126 STD" from Carl Bolt's "What's It" page.  I think these wrenches might be bottle wrenches, you guys have any ideals?

[tucker]

if you google "accles & shelvoke"gives a history of the founder,a.g.accles.involved in the
production of gatling guns,maybe the 13 is related to that.
brian.

[Bus]

if you google "accles & shelvoke"gives a history of the founder,a.g.accles.involved in the
production of gatling guns,maybe the 13 is related to that.
brian.

Sorry, I didn't make that post very clear. the picture of the three slash logo is the wrench three wrenches above the "13" wrench. The "13" doesn't have any other markings.

[tucker]

ok bus,i realised after i posted that i"d goofed.still mr accles is worth reading about.

[Branson]

Bottom, right, 4th up, weird logo, oval, line, 3 slashes, what is that logo?

It's curious and unexpected.  It's an ogham letter, called ngetal, representing the sound of "ng."  Ogham is writing system used primarily by the Irish back in pre-Christian times, but also found among the Scots, back in the days when the Druids wouldn't put things in writing.  It was considered a mystical or magical alphabet, and seems to have been used almost exclusively on stone boundary markers. 

Actually, there were around 75 systems of ogham, some written,  several systems of sign language, and others consisting of verbal clues.

There was, and still is, a great deal of interest among mystical groups, and also among antiquarians, beginning in the late 1800s.

A verbal cue system seems to have been the inspiration for a British code system in WWII.  The code was never broken.