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Offline JPRI

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Unusual wrench - help identify
« on: April 26, 2014, 01:06:47 PM »
Hi...I'm new to the forum, but have been collecting tools @20+ yrs.  I picked up this oddball @15 years ago at an antique shop in Warren, RI, which is no longer there.  This is an 8" wrench, no markings, and nothing even close to it is in Schulz's or Cope's.  Any ideas???
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Offline rusty

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Re: Unusual wrench - help identify
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2014, 02:14:02 PM »
It is not far from home.

Patented by Edward Wright of Worcester, MA (1896)

Not known who made it,  several different companies made other things he invented.

http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?number=546443&typeCode=0
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Re: Unusual wrench - help identify
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2014, 02:30:24 PM »
Good one Rusty. And neat wrench JPRI, welcome to the forum!
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Re: Unusual wrench - help identify
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2014, 02:44:32 PM »
Welcome to Tool Talk!

Try us on more wrenches!
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Re: Unusual wrench - help identify
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2014, 02:59:27 PM »
you guys are good...thanks
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Re: Unusual wrench - help identify
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2014, 07:54:04 PM »
also on DATAMP'S info on the patent, if you click on the 2 above the description,
it will show another like yours that was owned by Richard Lawton, and his also
has no I.D. markings of any kind.

nice find, 1st one that I have seen also.
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Offline Lewill2

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Re: Unusual wrench - help identify
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2014, 06:25:49 AM »
I think Dick Lawton has one of everything that isn't an agriculture wrench, he has an amazing collection that fills almost his whole house. Some really great wrench collections live in the middle part of the USA.
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Re: Unusual wrench - help identify
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2014, 01:22:16 PM »
Quote from: Lewill2 on April 27, 2014, 06:25:49 AM
I think Dick Lawton has one of everything that isn't an agriculture wrench, he has an amazing collection that fills almost his whole house. Some really great wrench collections live in the middle part of the USA.
Quibble --Middle part of the country is pretty unpopulated (it is 1,640 miles to San Francisco from my work place a half mile north of Interstate 80 & only 1,345 miles would put me on the west bank of the Hudson. )  Unless you are tipping your hat to Russ Marshall's collection, or "Bus" Haury's, or ....   a number of really great collections live in the eastern third of this county.   Ohio is "far west" only if you are within a half day's drive of the Atlantic. 
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