can anyone id this logo?

[swervncarz]

Can anyone tell me who made this tool? It may be a little hard to make out in the photo but it has a hand holding some sort of tool. Writing above logo is worn off but directly below, it has the word "tools", the "guaranteed" under that.

[lauver]

swerve,

Looks like it might be Klein Tools.  Just a wag.

[lbgradwell]

I don't think so Gary; I've never seen a Klein logo that wasn't the famous "linesman" logo. Also, that appears to be a vintage wing divider or wing caliper & I just don't see Klein offering such things...

That logo appears to be a clenched hand grasping something and the first letter in the name seems to be a "P"...

Can you take a nice, clear close-up shot using the "Macro" setting on your camera?

[Bill Houghton]

Maybe Peck, Stow, and Wilcox?



I got that mainly because I'm cleaning up a pair of wing dividers, made after they'd gone to the "PEXTO"-in-an-oval logo (way less attractive), and the length stamp on the leg opposite the logo looks very similar.

PS&W made a lot of woodworking tools, and wing dividers would be a logical tool for them.

NOTE: the picture I've linked above is from Etsy, so it's likely to be transient.  I looked on Alloy Artifacts, but all they're showing is the Pexto logo.

[keykeeper]

I agree with Bill, P.S.& W. They made all kinds of measuring tools...dividers, calipers, etc.

[swervncarz]

That would be it! Thank you

[lbgradwell]

Maybe Peck, Stow, and Wilcox?

No doubt about it! I actually considered "PEXTO" given the visible "P", but I didn't think wing dividers were something they'd have made. And I've never seen that older P.S. & W. logo.

Nice!

[Bill Houghton]

That catalog cover refers  to "mechanic's" tools, but that word once had a far broader meaning than it tends to now (I worked for a while as a sheet metal worker, and my old-school boss referred to us, and himself, as "mechanics").  Wing dividers were and still should be a common tool in trades less precise than machinist - joiner, tinbender, etc.  They have some significant advantages over the machinist's divider when you don't need gnat's-eyebrow precision (although they can, in fact, be set quite precisely).

[rusty]

The catalog on Rose Tools shows dividers, inside/outside calipers, and extension dividers. So, yes, Pexto made a vareity of such tools...

The catalog shows the later oval logo, but the basic design isn't much different...

[dimwittedmoose51]

I was going to say the old Armstrong logo, but the Pexto is a closer match for sure.

DM&FS

[swervncarz]

I was going to say the old Armstrong logo, but the Pexto is a closer match for sure.

DM&FS

That's exactly what I thought at first... My first search was Armstrong Wing dividers... They are def PS&W though... I haven't seen many with this logo.... Most have Peck Stow & Wilcox written out or the oval Pexto logo.. Does anyone have a time frame from when they used this logo?