any info on this little guy?

[bird]

[bird]

The bottom wrench is the one I would like info on. I can't find any markings on it .
cheers,
bird

[mvwcnews]

A Sept. 23, 1897 IRON AGE article reprinted on pg. 11 of the June 1995 MVWC Newsletter shows a Peck, Stow & Wilcox STAR bicycle wrench that looks exactly like this.   The STAR is listed as 5 inches long (but that may be with the jaw opened 1 1/4" because the sentence is ambiguous).
Surmise is they either did not mark it, or marked it so lightly the marking disappeared over the intervening century.  Since there was no patent, the thing could easily have been made by a copycat as well.

[turnnut]

Bird,  is the threads U.S. or metric ?

Frank

[turnnut]

Bird,  I just checked some of my small wrenches a found the one just like yours, but the jaw is sprung.

it is a tad under 4"   and the nut is brass.

NO NAME, NO DATE,  I.D. ? NADA, NADA,

in the morning, I am going to check if it is U.S. threads.

Frank

[turnnut]

as per MVWCNEWS report it might be a STAR, I have to lean towards Stan's report.

American Wrench Makers 1830-1915 by Kenneth L. Cope;   page 196
American Wrench Makers 1830-1930 by Kenneth L. Cope; 2nd edition,  page 245

shows a wrench that looks just like ours, The Star Bicycle Wrench,
sold by Peck, Stow and Wilcox, Southington, Conn.

also shown in Antique and Unusual Wrenches by Schulz's coptright 1989
p 14   #104    2nd from the top.  listed as "skeleton wrench with brass adjustment nut.

NOTE; my wrench also has the brass adjustment nut.