My wife played surrogate tool shopper Friday as I had to work and she did a great job finding bargains at a local yard sale. One of the plums she found was a well used Craftsman Fence Pliers that may be just a bit smaller than the Crescent model currently being sold, but it is stamped made in Germany. Any idea when this tool was made? I don't ever recall seeing fench pliers at Sears, but I've been wring before. I'd post a photo, but it looks just like any other pair of fence pliers I've ever seen. More on the Friday night finds later. She's more curious than me...and that's a good thing.
TIA
DM&FS
> I don't ever recall seeing fench pliers at Sears
Where do you think the farmers bought all their stuff? LOL
Sears used to sell *everything* and *anything* ...
A lot of stuff was imported after the war to help Germany rebuild, including hand tools, without seeing it, I would guess 50's...
The logo style may help date it....
Rusty, that's a great job of covert begging for a photo, I was totally hooked.Craftsman #45225.Logo looks pretty standard.
Nice : )
Best I can do is, after the war, before the 60's, the one in the catalog I have is beveled along the top edge, the same as the modern one (discontinued only this year by the way)
What surprises me is that they don't say "West Germany"...
They were introduced in the 1960 catalogue , appeared all through the decade and in the 1970 catalogue, but are no longer described as "From W. Germany" in the 1972-73 catalogue. Sears seems to have started looking to Japan for their imported tools by then...
Yes, it is unusual that it just says "GERMANY" instead of "W. GERMANY" or "WEST GERMANY". Normally old tools that are marked "GERMANY" only are considered to be made before WWII.
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it was made before WW II if it was after would say west germany
Quote from: elite1grey on July 05, 2011, 05:18:54 AM
it was made before WW II if it was after would say west germany
Not in this case.
Craftsman did not put catalog # on there tools till the 50's