This was sitting all lonely like at a thrift yesterday.   Not rusted, metal carry handle, and the tray flips up giving full access to the lower part.  Started cleaning it and found it was gray, but now patina.   Maybe I should have left it there?

I don't think I would have left it there, but then again I have a problem related to such things.

First I've seen with a lift tray like that. Nice box

I used a Kennedy box like that once, during my thankfully brief career as the maintenance guy in a waterbed frame factory (lots of stories, some frightening, about that place).  Nice design.  You can't put any tools as wide as the inside of the box in, because the tray gets in the way; but mostly this kind of box is used for mechanic's tools (in the broad sense of "mechanic," someone who works on mechanical stuff), which tend more toward long than wide.

john k,

Do you have an actual question or concern about the tool box?  It's hard to guess what you are thinking.

How old is that, 1920's?

I guess the question would be if anyone else would have bought it, or just left it there?  It cost me less than a hamburger, and was straight enough, and the handle solid enough I thought it should be in my workshop, vs. someone painting flowers on it and using it for a planter or something worse.   With a metal handle and grey paint, I am thinking 60s, maybe late 50s.    Hate to see a tool or closely related item abused or neglected after serving their intended purpose for 40 years. 

I would have brought it home. The boxes with the dividers in the top tray at the ends are better for sockets, keeps them from rolling back and forth in the truck :)

(Why I think I would need another tool box is a different question, I have a dozen or so sitting on a shelf waiting for a use..)

Quote from: Helleri on October 16, 2013, 06:01:24 AM
How old is that, 1920's?

I would guess somewhere in the 1950s.

It is in the 1952 catalog. It is not in the 1950.

Passing up old bargain toolboxes is almost impossible but it getting a little easier each time.

when buying tools need has nothing to do with it.   bob w.

Quote from: amertrac on November 01, 2013, 05:55:57 AM
when buying tools need has nothing to do with it.   bob w.

Absolutely agree. LOL

I vguess it depends on how hungry you were at the time of purchase.  For me, I'd had to have been fasting for 3 or 4 days in order to choose food over a cool old tool box like that.  And yes, I 12x2 empties laying around and that doesn't count all the small SK socket boxes.....  Latest finds(not picked up yet).  Snap-On   KRA-25, a really old Crescent large socket box, and a moderate sized tool box with BILLINGS embossed on the top of the lid, all firsts for me.

YMMV

DM&FS

you could't leave it. tool boxes get lonely