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Offline wrenchguy

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Is this a saw set?
« on: September 15, 2013, 04:38:37 PM »
Marked HESTA with pat date dec 24. No year. What can u tell us about it? I ain't seen 1 like it. Maybe 4 use with a hammer. I don't know why it has 2 numbered star wheels.
thanks 4 looking.



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Re: Is this a saw set?
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2013, 05:13:34 PM »
Yes.

It is a Diston "Star"

Actual patent date is Dec 24, 1872
Pat 134,320

From the SawSet Collectors Resource site
http://members.acmenet.net/~con12a/saw%20set%20website/hammer1.htm

PS: Thinking it was marked "THE STAR"
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Just a weathered light rust/WD40 mix patina.

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Re: Is this a saw set?
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2013, 06:25:55 PM »
ur right the bottom of the "t" and "s" was cast off 4 it to sit in a mortise.  Thanks.
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