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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Wrenchmensch on January 14, 2013, 01:33:38 PM

Title: Is this a hub wrench?
Post by: Wrenchmensch on January 14, 2013, 01:33:38 PM

A friend who has given me many fine wrenches over the years, gave me this one the other night.  It is 12 1/2 inches long, has the number 2272 embossed on it, and has C inscribed in a diamond stamped on it. It looks, from the size of the openings
(2 5/8", 2 1/2", 1 3/8", and 2 1/4"), like a hub wrench.  Can anyone identify how this wrench was used, or who made it?

Title: Re: Is this a hub wrench?
Post by: rusty on January 14, 2013, 06:15:42 PM

Dunno, but, looking around epay, I found several with a C in a diamond, and several with an H in a diamond.
Now, the interesting thing is, <H> was Herbrands old mark.....

Title: Re: Is this a hub wrench?
Post by: Wrenchmensch on January 23, 2013, 04:09:40 PM

There is a 2272 on e-Bay right now with a Herbrand stamp on it. It looks like a duplicate of my wrench!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OLD-LARGE-MULTI-SIZE-FARM-MACHINE-WRENCH-GOOD-CONDITION-COLLECT-/160961033132?pt=Folk_Art&hash=item257a0673ac

Title: Re: Is this a hub wrench?
Post by: rusty on January 23, 2013, 04:17:36 PM

Look more closely at the ebay one, it has BOTH stamps overprinted on each other!

how odd....

Title: Re: Is this a hub wrench?
Post by: Wrenchmensch on January 23, 2013, 08:42:01 PM

Ditto!  It is odd.

Title: Re: Is this a hub wrench?
Post by: johnsironsanctuary on January 24, 2013, 09:15:10 AM

photo

Title: Re: Is this a hub wrench?
Post by: Wrenchmensch on January 24, 2013, 10:01:35 AM

Judging from the "H" stamp and the "H" boss overlaying the "C" stamp on the eBay wrench above, it looks as if Herbrand bought a lot of the "C"  2272 wrenches and did their best to obscure the "C" mark.

Title: Re: Is this a hub wrench?
Post by: Bus on January 24, 2013, 12:29:17 PM

I think the logo changes were made to the mold patterns not the actual wrenches. We know the Herbrand logo but does anyone know who the "C" in a diamond belongs too?

Beside the 2272 I know of four other very similar wrenches:
X24C (orphan)
X210 (orphan)
4434 (Cole automobile)
A1480M" (Case automobile, I have only seen a part list picture not a wrench with these markings)

Title: Re: Is this a hub wrench?
Post by: rusty on January 26, 2013, 09:22:35 PM

>...Herbrand bought a lot of the "C"  2272

Or made them?

There is an odd missing piece of Herbrands history, the diamond H mark was registered, with first use claimed 1908. But Herbrand was founded in 1888.

So, what mark were they using for the 20 years in between?

hmm