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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: phillie on April 12, 2013, 04:01:29 PM

Title: Interesting Henry Boker Tool. What is it?
Post by: phillie on April 12, 2013, 04:01:29 PM: Here is the ad that will show up on line this Sunday for this tool.

Up for auction today is awesome tool made when pride and craftsmanship were king. The detail and knurling on this tool is nowhere to be found today. I think the tool is some sort of leather working tool??? It is marked HENRY BOKER with an arrow through an X and 2 asterisks for a logo. The photos will describe the size of the tool. Research on this tool came up empty…do you know what it is used for?

I left the tool as I found it, looks like it has a nickel finish? The cutting portion of this tool has graduations on it and appears that it has been sharpened or trimmed. I do not know exactly what this tool was used for or how it works, so please look at photos carefully and ask questions as needed.

Hopefully I can revise this with additional information before it posts. Thanks to the forum!!!
Title: Re: Interesting Henry Boker Tool. What is it?
Post by: Lewill2 on April 12, 2013, 04:12:26 PM: It looks like another saw set.
Title: Re: Interesting Henry Boker Tool. What is it?
Post by: oldtools on April 12, 2013, 04:44:05 PM: first I thought it was a leather nibber to cut decorative edge. but looked up saw set & found it..
http://members.acmenet.net/~con12a/saw%20set%20website/european.htm
Title: Re: Interesting Henry Boker Tool. What is it?
Post by: Fins/413 on April 12, 2013, 04:52:49 PM: What a gorgeous tool
Title: Re: Interesting Henry Boker Tool. What is it?
Post by: amertrac on April 12, 2013, 05:04:28 PM: put up the link bob w.
Title: Re: Interesting Henry Boker Tool. What is it?
Post by: OilyRascal on April 12, 2013, 05:25:06 PM: It is a nice tool. I'll keep the remainder of my opinion to myself for the sake of the forum.
Title: Re: Interesting Henry Boker Tool. What is it?
Post by: Papaw on April 12, 2013, 05:51:03 PM: Branson showed one here- http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=6776.msg42616#msg42616 (http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=6776.msg42616#msg42616)
Title: Re: Interesting Henry Boker Tool. What is it?
Post by: phillie on April 12, 2013, 10:07:23 PM: Thanks for the info. It is a saw set...found some info once I knew what it was. It will be on e-bay this Sunday.
Title: Re: Interesting Henry Boker Tool. What is it?
Post by: Branson on April 13, 2013, 09:12:25 AM: Quote from: Papaw on April 12, 2013, 05:51:03 PM
Branson showed one here- http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=6776.msg42616#msg42616 (http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=6776.msg42616#msg42616)

And the mystery remains -- who made these? Boker, Nike, Sandvik, some unmarked, and a C&K from Canada; all are nearly identical. The parts look like they would be interchangeable. Same raised cartouche plate, same pattern of panels (with a variety of different decorations) -- they must have been drop forged in the same dies with only alternate decorative patterns. Sometimes the cartouche panel is marked with a makers name, other times it is left blank. A curiosity...
Title: Re: Interesting Henry Boker Tool. What is it?
Post by: rusty on April 13, 2013, 04:24:05 PM: And from the saw set site, add also, Garanto Fein.

Which according to someone* on the old tools list is a trademark, for a Gernam company that made saw sets, "Nettus Schmidt in Zella-Mehlis"

hmm...

http://www.holzwerken.de/pics/anzeige_nettus_schmidt.jpg

(http://www.holzwerken.de/pics/anzeige_nettus_schmidt.jpg)

*Jordan, Wolfgang,2006
Title: Re: Interesting Henry Boker Tool. What is it?
Post by: Plyerman on April 13, 2013, 09:22:00 PM: Looks like it was made way more "fancified" than it needed to be. I've seen a few other pre-war german tools that were decorated like that.