Is this a hub wrench?

[Wrenchmensch]

A friend who has given me many fine wrenches over the years, gave me this one the other night.  It is 12 1/2 inches long, has the number 2272 embossed on it, and has C inscribed in a diamond stamped on it. It looks, from the size of the openings
(2 5/8", 2 1/2", 1 3/8", and 2 1/4"), like a hub wrench.  Can anyone identify how this wrench was used, or who made it?

[rusty]

Dunno, but, looking around epay, I found several with a C in a diamond, and several with an H in a diamond.
Now, the interesting thing is, <H> was Herbrands old mark.....

[Wrenchmensch]

There is a 2272 on e-Bay right now with a Herbrand stamp on it. It looks like a duplicate of my wrench!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OLD-LARGE-MULTI-SIZE-FARM-MACHINE-WRENCH-GOOD-CONDITION-COLLECT-/160961033132?pt=Folk_Art&hash=item257a0673ac

[rusty]

Look more closely at the ebay one, it has BOTH stamps overprinted on each other!

how odd....

[Wrenchmensch]

Ditto!  It is odd.

[johnsironsanctuary]

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[Wrenchmensch]

Judging from the "H" stamp and the "H" boss overlaying the "C" stamp on the eBay wrench above, it looks as if Herbrand bought a lot of the "C"  2272 wrenches and did their best to obscure the "C" mark.

[Bus]

I think the logo changes were made to the mold patterns not the actual wrenches. We know the Herbrand logo but does anyone know who the "C" in a diamond belongs too?

Beside the 2272 I know of four other very similar wrenches:
X24C (orphan)
X210 (orphan)
4434 (Cole automobile)
A1480M" (Case automobile, I have only seen a part list picture not a wrench with these markings)

[rusty]

>...Herbrand bought a lot of the "C"  2272

Or made them?

There is an odd missing piece of Herbrands history, the diamond H mark was registered, with first use claimed 1908. But Herbrand was founded in 1888.

So, what mark were they using for the 20 years in between?

hmm