2 tools that have me stumped /00\

[elkpointtoolco]

Have no idea what these 2 are. The first one looks like a toy hammer, but I don't recognize it from anything. The second one has me beat....I can't figure it out - not even the W.C. Co.





More pics on this blog post (mine) -
http://elkpointtoolco.com/?p=131

[Lewill2]

I have one of those hammers too, I think they are candy hammers. You see them on eBay from time to time. I don't recall ever seeing any other info on them. I don't have anything else listed about mine on my inventory list. The second tool no clue.

[gibsontool]

I have a similar hammer,but don't know it's original use, and like Lewell2 no clue on the other.

[turnnut]

ditto on Lewill2 & gibsontool's post,  I have the hammer and always thought that it was for breaking up candy.

as for the 2nd tool ???  I do not recall ever seeing one like that, sorry.

[jefftrin]

Tool 2  looks to me like something my old nan had for extracting weeds from out of manicured lawns

[Bill Houghton]

That second tool looks like it's hinged on the end opposite the handle - yes?  If so, maybe some pics of it opened up will inspire someone to figure it out.

[Plyerman]

The additional photos on your blog are helpful......but I still don't know what the heck it is. :-/

[turnnut]

 on the 2nd tool,  is the cradle the right size to hold a bunch of celery or a bunch of carrots ?

 ?? vegetable holder to tie them in bunches ""

 the one that I was trying to think of was, "asparagus buncher"

[oldgoaly]

I think Turnnut is on the right track.
Ties something but what?

[mikeswrenches]

I have no clue on the second item.  The hammer is another matter.

Design patent D50,407 was awarded to Joseph J. Sprenger and Ludvig Sorensen both of Indianapolis, Indiana  on February 27, 1917.

On page 120, fig. 11, of The Hammer book, is a picture of our hammer.  Comerford and Baird show it with the "Sugar, Nut and Candy hammers.

Below is the DATAMP link.

http://www.datamp.org/patents/advance.php?pn=D50407&id=11675&set=1


Mike

[Chillylulu]

As for the 2nd tool:

"W. C. Co. stands for "Washington Cutlery Co.," which became Village Blacksmith, a firm that made cutlery, farm knives and tools from the early 1900s through the 1960s in Watertown. The firm went out of business and most of the manufacturing departments became what is today Fischer-Barton."

"In its early years the company made a product known as Household Knives.  The output in the early years was only ten to 15 dozen per day.  The knives were sold to retail stores in Wisconsin.
 
The company, as it expanded, added knives of all kinds to its products.  Clevers, grass hooks, corn and hedge knives, screw drivers, chisels, punches, shaves and other tools were among products that were manufactured at various times.
 
In recent years the company has turned out a widely known line of fine cutlery and garden tools.
 
By 1921 the company was turning out between 700,000 and 1,000,000 individual pieces annually.  Its products were sold by more than 3,000 hardware stores as well as in restaurant and butcher supply stores throughout the United States"

From "History of Watertown, Wisconsin" e-book

Chilly

[mvwcnews]

Looked at the photos on your blog post & have a question.  Are the round things at "A" in this edited version of one of your photos rollers?
Don't know what the tool is, just trying to figure out how it might work.

[turnnut]

Stan, they look like hinges, that may be washers inside for alignment ???
to take up slack in the casting of the parts ???

it reminds me of the old Philadelphia asparagus bunchers, except it is hand held.

[elkpointtoolco]

Looked at the photos on your blog post & have a question.  Are the round things at "A" in this edited version of one of your photos rollers?
Don't know what the tool is, just trying to figure out how it might work.

I believe that those are rollers...appear to be made of brass.

[turnnut]

is that 2nd tool solid ?  or can you swing it open ?

are the ??? rollers the only brass on this item ???