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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: international3414 on November 29, 2013, 05:07:21 AM

Title: otis smith,rockfall,conn. squeeze handle tool,whats it?
Post by: international3414 on November 29, 2013, 05:07:21 AM

this has 4 thumb screw adjustments.i think they made guns in the 19th century,i could not find a picture of this tool.
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll153/richpoor1/th_003-48.jpg) (http://s287.photobucket.com/user/richpoor1/media/003-48.jpg.html)

Title: Re: otis smith,rockfall,conn. squeeze handle tool,whats it?
Post by: Lewill2 on November 29, 2013, 06:34:46 AM

First thought is that it gives the appearance of an adjustable saw set. Not sure that I have ever seen anything exactly like it.

Title: Re: otis smith,rockfall,conn. squeeze handle tool,whats it?
Post by: Branson on November 29, 2013, 08:57:49 AM

Definitely a saw set.  Looks to me like an improvement on the 1848 Stillman's Saw Set Patent , by adding a plier leg.

Title: Re: otis smith,rockfall,conn. squeeze handle tool,whats it?
Post by: rusty on November 29, 2013, 09:04:25 AM

>.i think they made guns in the 19th century

I also see them listed as maker of a patented plane (Fales) and wire clamps and other misc things, almost everybody who was anybody made sawsets, so it is certainly reasonable...

They seem to be worth something, unusual for a sawset...
  http://www.jonzimmersantiquetools.com/show/smith_saw_set.html