Got this out of the 25 cent bin at the flea market.
Marked "WINDHAM", Pat Pending, The Goyer Co. USA
It looks like Goyer was a company that sold industrial lubricants.

Any ideas on what this was used for?

They look like electrical pliers for putting a loop in the end of a wire that is to go on a stud or around a bolt.

EvilDr235

That is plausible. The numbers could be for wire gauge.

Did a little more research.

The Goyer Co. was in Willimantic CT.
Willimantic is a section of the Town of Windham

Good info!

You got it for 20% of retail!  Nice!

I have a pair like that, but without the numbers.

EvilDr235

I have never seen these or any thing similar but I think they would be very handy on wiring jobs and I'm surprised nobody makes them today, or if they are made I'd like to know by who so I can get myself some.

Another great little tool I have never seen before. Bunger. Great bit of research, was it in Popular Mechanics and what is the era?
Graeme

Great bit of sleuth-work, Bunger. 

Those pliers look handy. Never seen a plier like them.

Quote from: anglesmith on February 08, 2015, 12:49:58 AM
Another great little tool I have never seen before. Bunger. Great bit of research, was it in Popular Mechanics and what is the era?
Graeme

I found "snippet views" of "new product announcements"  in electronics  trade periodicals for late 1925 using Google advanced book search.  Too bad the Disney copyright law won't allow that old stuff to go into the public domain & be freely viewable.   Wonder if there is a patent ....

Quote from: anglesmith on February 08, 2015, 12:49:58 AM
Another great little tool I have never seen before. Bunger. Great bit of research, was it in Popular Mechanics and what is the era?
Graeme

Close, I found it in POPULAR RADIO magazine PDF's on The American Radio History site.
Found mention of the Goyer Co. in a 1925 edition & the ad in a 1926 edition.

These are super cool!
I have 3 or 4 pair in the jeweler size. They are common with jewelers for making basically tiny rings.
But big enough for electrical constriction wire?
And in marked screw sizes? 
How come these didn't sell 16 million units and we can all get one for a quarter?
       yours Scott

I live about an hours drive from Willimantic, CT and I have never seen a pair like that.

that sure would be easier to use than forming the wire around a screwdriver or
ice pick like I have done many times.