I have uncovered a torpedo level, 8-1/2" long wood, marked with a curvy Craftsman logo.
It appears to me that this is a pre-1927 Marion Tool Ohio level, but there is so little literature on this era I can't be sure.
Hoping there are a flock of experts to mull this over with me.
Does the logo look kind of like this?
(http://web.archive.org/web/20031003172201im_/http://www.sears.com/images/craftsman/whyCraftsman/1927logo.gif)
If so, it's an early (Sears) Craftsman logo. It appeared in 1927, but it's not clear to me when Sears moved on to the next logo.
I can't see the level very well, but it looks like a wooden body with metal on top and bottom; is that right? Cool design, if so.
Hopfully it's not a repro. They produced some of tools with the logo from that era back a bunch of years, I just don't remember when.
Aluminum top, wood bottom.
The Sears I saw like this had two horizontal levels (one each end) which made me think this was different.
I also remember seeing a comment (can't find it now) that somehow the curved Craftsman was changed to add "TOOLS" when Sears bought the name.
Sorry my photos are so small, just figuring that out. Here is a larger photo of the logo.
Here is a portion of a page from the 1930 catalog