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Title: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
Post by: JPRI on August 21, 2017, 07:14:05 PM

Picked this up in Maine.  Not in Schulz or Cope books.  Couldn't find a marking, but haven't cleaned the gunk yet.  7-1/2"L.  Anyone know the maker? thanks

Title: Re: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
Post by: Yadda on August 21, 2017, 08:12:13 PM

Looks familiar, Bob might know.  He'll be around presently.

Title: Re: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
Post by: JPRI on August 21, 2017, 08:23:25 PM

Another tool friend of mine identified it in record time.  Patent 1163532 by T. Hand, 12/7/1915

Title: Re: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
Post by: turnnut on August 21, 2017, 08:50:10 PM

  Stan may want to put the picture in DATAMP.

  DATAMP listed it as not known to have been made. 

Title: Re: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
Post by: mvwcnews on August 24, 2017, 12:38:30 PM

I've been busy the last few days with "eclipse path of  totality" & aftermath -- the tool was Kilborn & Bishop combination wrench -- advertised in the early 1920s. (see pg. 30 of Sept. 2009 MVWC Newsletter).  Thanks for the patent number.

Title: Re: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
Post by: JPRI on August 24, 2017, 05:44:39 PM

thanks Stan...so have a few of these surfaced?

Title: Re: Odd Plier-Wrench - help identify
Post by: mvwcnews on September 08, 2017, 04:06:22 PM

Quote from: JPRI on August 24, 2017, 05:44:39 PM

thanks Stan...so have a few of these surfaced?

Just a few; it has come to my attention only a couple of times.