Screw holding screwdriver

[HeelSpur]

This is in pretty nice shape but there is no name on it, all it has is;
SCREW-SEllA-PAT.PEND.

The SEllA could be SET1A, looks like the top of the T is missing,
and some of the SE is missing on the top.
SCREW SETTA wouldn't make any sense.
Anybody recognize it?

[Bill Houghton]

This is in pretty nice shape but there is no name on it, all it has is;
SCREW-SEllA-PAT.PEND.

The SEllA could be SET1A, looks like the top of the T is missing,
and some of the SE is missing on the top.
SCREW SETTA wouldn't make any sense.

Well, it would if the company was in certain parts of the U.S. - parts of Noo Joisey, for instance, or Boston (although there it should have an "H" on the end).

That is a deeply cool screwdriver.  I never knew they made them with wood handles.

[Chillylulu]

I like the split blade starters better than the claw type myself. I find it easier to grab the screw.

Chilly

[scottg]

I haven't ever seen this pattern in a wood handle either.
  I have quite a few celluloid/butyrate handles, but no wood.

  I kind of have a thing for screw holding drivers too. So I have quite a few
 yours Scott

[Bill Houghton]

I wound up with several screw starters.  These have a little spring-loaded part in the center of a flat screwdriver blade that (the spring-loaded part) twists to capture the screw.  It releases as soon as the screw is started in the threads.  That's the theory; in practice, you have to be very, very careful not to bang into anything while placing the screw, or it'll fall off.  But it makes for good practice in delicate maneuvering, and they fit all the common sizes of slotted screws.

[scottg]

Here are some of the spring driven twist screw holders. This is a pretty complete kit. Wooden handles for the big ones and solid brass jeweler type pattern for the small screws.
 These grip the screw slot pretty well.
 
 Also a few butyrate handle sliding wedge drivers (along with other drivers).
 
In the second picture I was trying to take a shot of the subtle color differences in the handles. My eye perceives many different shades.
 But the pictures were a complete failure. Between the camera and the computer monitor all the subtlety of color is lost. Looks like nothing but plain yellow, orange and red.
   
 yours Scott

[rusty]

Some of the dyes used in the early plastics are in fact flourescent, that is, they absorb ultraviolet light and give it back off as visible light of a certain color. This is part of the reason they have that wonderfull luster :)

Somewhere I have a hand saw made out of that pretty stuff...hardly a user, scares the heck out of me, I have a vision of the plastic splitting in half and my hand slamming into the back of the blade, but it sure is purty to look at...

[scottg]

I have 2 Millers Falls hacksaw frames with ruby handles.
One is traditional ruby, and a true ruby red it is! Its beautiful
  The other I call "fire ruby". This is just a miraculous color. No question fluorescence is involved in this handle.
 
  Neither can be adequately photographed. Not even close to what your eye sees.
     yours Scott