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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: tfleming on January 24, 2016, 08:41:10 PM

Title: Does anyone recognize this trademark and who made it?
Post by: tfleming on January 24, 2016, 08:41:10 PM
I found a neat old valve spring compressor for sale.  Seller says that it is IHC, but the trademark does not look like it.  I collect old IHC tools, and this does not look like one................but the trademark is hauntingly familiar.

Anyone recognize it?

(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/on8AAOSwX~dWoQdP/s-l1600.jpg)
Title: Re: Does anyone recognize this trademark and who made it?
Post by: bill300d on January 24, 2016, 08:51:21 PM
possibly Cleveland Hardware
Title: Re: Does anyone recognize this trademark and who made it?
Post by: mvwcnews on January 24, 2016, 11:51:45 PM
There are a bunch of malleable iron tools with that mark that all came out of Chicago. "Bus" Haury found some attributed to Chicago Hardware.

Could you show a full view of the lifter?  I'm working up a "valve tool special"  (based on 1913 & 1917 MOTOR WORLD articles)  to accompany the March MVWC Newsletter & that mechanism looks like a common one that I might be able to identify the "manufacturer" from a full view.

Regards, Stan Schulz, editor Missouri Valley Wrench Club Newsletter
Title: Re: Does anyone recognize this trademark and who made it?
Post by: tfleming on January 25, 2016, 05:22:45 AM
some more views:

(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/EccAAOSwLnlWoQaK/s-l1600.jpg)

(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HoMAAOSwLnlWoQbw/s-l1600.jpg)

markings are:   16A V32 V31   then the trademark
Title: Re: Does anyone recognize this trademark and who made it?
Post by: Michael Everett on January 31, 2016, 02:44:34 PM
That is the logo for Chicago manufacturing & distributing.I have a malleable iron socket and ratchet set with the same logo on the ratchet and the alloy artifacts page describes them as the maker.
Title: Re: Does anyone recognize this trademark and who made it?
Post by: tfleming on February 02, 2016, 07:51:13 AM

Thanks guys!