Spencer or Spenser?

Papaw · February 02, 2016, 07:57:11 PM

In preparing some bicycle wrenches for Ebay i noticed something curious.
An 8" wrench marked Billings and SPENSER, not the usual Billings and SPENCER. Reading up on it I don't see SPENSER anywhere.
Thoughts?

bill300d · February 02, 2016, 08:13:47 PM

I think some one made a bobo. I wonder how many got out before they caught it.

turnnut · February 02, 2016, 08:32:07 PM

you may have a collectors item Papaw.

it's too late to fire the person who set that up.

Northwoods · February 03, 2016, 08:38:27 AM

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I have a Blue Point Snap-On 8" adjustable with a forged-in misspelling. It claims to have been made in KENOSHA, WISCONSON.
Maybe we have a whole new collecting category!

Twertsy · February 03, 2016, 09:45:54 AM

Yup, definitely an "oops." It was always "Spencer." Put it on eBay as a "one of a kind" misprint, worth more than upside down airplanes and any doublestrike.......you may get lucky.

mvwcnews · February 03, 2016, 07:56:33 PM

Photos of Charles Ethan Billings & Christopher M. Spencer appeared on pgs. 14-15 of the June 2015 MVWC Newsletter.
As to how a die maker (or a name stamp maker) screwed up a company name -- we'll never know.

Papaw · February 03, 2016, 10:22:29 PM

Stan- Should I save it and hope for high value?

mvwcnews · February 04, 2016, 04:02:19 PM

Quote from: Papaw on February 03, 2016, 10:22:29 PM
Stan- Should I save it and hope for high value?

Don't know about value -- are there "error" wrench collectors the way there are "error" collectors for stamps, coins, & currency? I know there are malleable implement wrenches where some part of the markings are missing in some examples -- a letter fell off one of the masters or the sand shifted before the iron was poured. And somewhere in past newsletter someone noted a drop forged wrench where a die had been "repaired" creating a backwards "S" in U.S.A.
As they say in the auction business -- you'll know more after the hammer drops -- in the mean time you have a conversation piece.

Nolatoolguy · February 05, 2016, 03:03:22 AM

Very interesting :)

bunger · February 10, 2016, 05:06:00 AM

I don't know if that is actually an "S".
If you look in the area of the marking there are quite a few diagonal marks. One of those marks could have landed just right to make the "C" look like an "S".

Papaw · February 10, 2016, 10:59:18 AM

Could be, since no one has ever seen Spenser before. I will try for a macro shot of it .

Papaw · February 10, 2016, 03:21:27 PM

Some closer shots. Studying the other S and C strikes, I still see it as an S.

humber2 · February 10, 2016, 03:48:21 PM

I see 8PENSER

turnnut · February 10, 2016, 07:30:55 PM

no question about it, it is Spenser !

eddie hudson · February 11, 2016, 06:52:32 AM

I totally agree with Bunger and Pawpaw

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Spencer or Spenser?