Crescent Screwdrivers

[superzstuff]

My latest find, two sizes of a Crescent swivel handle screwdriver. The tip was broken on the small one, but I was glad to find the two sizes in the same box! How hard to find are these? I have never seen any, but that doesn't mean much. Very well made, heavy, and handle swivels with a healthy snap. Both marked Crescent but with a different style.

[Bill Houghton]

There seem always to be some on That Auction Site with the E in the Name; but I found my first in the wild last summer (never having known before finding it that they existed).  Someone here - I've misplaced the name in that junkpile I call my memory - has two of the three sizes and lusts after the third; he may be along in a minute with information.

Alloy Artifacts has some information: http://home.comcast.net/~alloy-artifacts/crescent-tool.html, and scroll down a bit.

[superzstuff]

Thanks, if I had just scrolled down on that page back when I listed my double ended adjustable wrench, I would have seen the screwdriver!

[mikeswrenches]

I have one of the 5 in. Ones with the forged in marks.  Picked it up in the wild somewhere.

Mike

[geneg]

I have 2 of the 3, have to check which.  Really would like to have the third just because it exists.  I think I also posted  an original sales ad for them.  Bill & I discussed them quite a few months ago.  Also the relative scale of the tip sizes vs lengths on vintage screwdrivers.  There was some sort of logic behind it,since most brands were close.

[john k]

I have never seen one in the wild, so don't have one in my, uh, pile.   Finding two at once?  You better go buy a lottery ticket!   

[amecks]

I have one of those in good condition - probably the smaller one in your pic - they are very well made.
Al.

[Plyerman]

Funny, I just saw one of those yesterday in an old advertisement (upper left):

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1930-Ad-Crescent-Tool-Smith-Hemenway-Hardware-ORIGINAL-ADVERTISING-/370741224866?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5651e625a2

[superzstuff]

Nice ad Plyerman, funny but at same auction I got screwdrivers they had a nailpuller like one in center of your ad and auctioneer didn't know what it was. I had used a Stanley puller like that when I was working to tear apart skids, so I knew it well. It went for $35, so I didn't buy it.

[Bill Houghton]

Nice ad.  Thanks.  What's that articulated jobbie in the bottom right corner?

[mvwcnews]

There are two in the ad;  the one in the lower right & the one below the hacksaw towards upper center are both wire grips to pull and tighten wire.

[lbgradwell]

There are two in the ad;  the one in the lower right & the one below the hacksaw towards upper center are both wire grips to pull and tighten wire.

+1. The top one is called a Haven's Grip, while the bottom tool is called a Buffalo Grip.