Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: jimwrench on July 26, 2014, 07:39:36 PM
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Got this box opener at auction tonight. Figured it wasn't an antique cause how old can a Clark Candy Bar be but it was stamped (Clark Bars are Great). I think I remember them from before WWII but that's not so long ago. Googled them and found that David L Clark started making them in 1866. Even I can't remember that. Box opener may have been made last week but I don't think so.
Gellman just came along because ringman wanted to hold up two things in each hand.
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I've seen those before. 1920's at least. When a large order of candy bars were ordered a crate hammer came along, I think.
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Do they still make Clark Bars ?? I haven't seen them in a while.
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Still going-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Bar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Bar)
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As much as I hate to take the discussion away from anything involving chocolate...
What about that Gellman adjustable wrench? I recently picked up a 6 inch Gellman. Nifty little thing. I'd like to know more about it.
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Don't know much. Israel C Gellman patented April 17,1923 according to Cope.
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When I was a kit the bars had a thing on the back you mailed in to win a horse.
I have no idea what I would have done with a horse or where I would have put it, but I mailed in every one of them....
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When I was little, Clark Bars were bigger!
While we are on crate hammers, I have a well beaten one marked BOX TERRIER on one side and there is a nearly worn-off logo on the reverse.
I think I have seen this logo, but can't recall what it was. Can anyone ID it from this poor photo??
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The Box Terrier name belonged to Bridgeport Hardware Mfg co, but All I see in your logo pic is 2 curvy lines...(
(BHM had an overstamped B with a H in the top and M in the bottom logo)
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As much as I hate to take the discussion away from anything involving chocolate...
What about that Gellman adjustable wrench? I recently picked up a 6 inch Gellman. Nifty little thing. I'd like to know more about it.
Gellman "Polly" wrenches have been topic of past threads including an ad ( http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=6050 ) photo of three sizes in canvas holder ( http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=5273 ) and photo sets in DATAMP entry for patent no. 1,451,906 ( http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?number=1451906&typeCode=0 )
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Thanks for all the info. I had completely forgotten the 2012 discussion.
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The Box Terrier name belonged to Bridgeport Hardware Mfg co, but All I see in your logo pic is 2 curvy lines...(
(BHM had an overstamped B with a H in the top and M in the bottom logo)
It was those two curvy lines that I thought I had seen before. After a bit of cleanup I guessed that the logo was BIXBY's with the curvy lines being extensions of the bottom legs of the X . My wife entered that and BOX TERRIER on her tablet and found a nice photo of a BIXBY's BOX TERRIER that had sold on eBay in 2009. I looked on eBay and found one that is very rusty but you can still make out those curvy lines.
So far I have been unable to find a connection between Bridgeport and BIXBY's. Any ideas???