Last week I was cruising ebay, and there was an interesting square -- simple square on one end, and at the end of the bottom leg, also a bevel guage arm.  Nifty! I thought.  Then I looked at the price.  $150.  Not that nifty.  So I kept cruising the old tools.  There was another square like this, not, I admit in the same condition but it looked functional.  Price?  $6.66.  I guest the Devil made me do it -- I clicked the buy it now button.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/220868728888?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2648

It's marked:
Hight's Union Combination Square
Patents pending
Manufactured by
The Hight MFG Co
Toledo Ohio

It has about 45% of the original nickel plating, but is fully functional.  Worthpoint lists one as selling in 2007, but I can't find anything more.  No patent number, no information on the company at all.

Branson, can you please post another photo? The one on ebay looks like it was taken with a pin hole camera with a dirty lense.

The best I can do right now is the URL for the one listed on Worthpoint:

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-hights-union-combination-square-unusual

Mine's complete and working, just missing a lot of nickel plating, otherwise identical.

Thanks Branson. The Worthpoint photo is good.

Is anyone else frustrated by not being able to save a photo from ebay? If you know how, please let me in on the secret.

you have to enlarge the photo,,then double click it,,then right click and copy

Sometimes that doesn't work.  In that case, right click on the photo, and you should get a menu with four options.  Click on "view selection source."

That will give you a bunch of gobbledygook like this:

<div class="ic-w300 ic-cntr"><div class="ic-w300 ic-m" id="vv4-44_idiv"><center><span></span><img style="width: 213px; height: 159px;" src="http://i.ebayimg.com/t/VINTAGE-OLD-SQUARE-/00/s/MTU5WDIxMw==/$%28KGrHqV,%21hcE5p24e5QyBOi0PNssow%7E%7E60_35.JPG" id="i_vv4-44" alt="VINTAGE OLD SQUARE"></center></div><div id="vv4-44_bdiv" class="ic-p ic-b1" style="height: 298px; width: 298px;"><div style="display: none;" id="vv4-44_t" class="ic-thr"><span></span></div><div style="display: none;" id="vv4-44_e" class="ic-err"><span>Image not available</span></div></div></div>

In this bunch of stuff you will find:

"http://i.ebayimg.com/t/VINTAGE-OLD-SQUARE-/00/s/MTU5WDIxMw==/$%28KGrHqV,%21hcE5p24e5QyBOi0PNssow%7E%7E60_35.JPG"

Copy and paste this on your browser, and you will get an image that you can right click and save.

OR -
After enlarging the photo, you can -
Right click it
Click on "View page info"
Click on "Media"
Copy "Location"
Then you will have a URL you can post as a picture or save in your pictures