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Offline international3414

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otis smith,rockfall,conn. squeeze handle tool,whats it?
« on: November 29, 2013, 05:07:21 AM »
this has 4 thumb screw adjustments.i think they made guns in the 19th century,i could not find a picture of this tool.
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Re: otis smith,rockfall,conn. squeeze handle tool,whats it?
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2013, 06:34:46 AM »
First thought is that it gives the appearance of an adjustable saw set. Not sure that I have ever seen anything exactly like it.
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Re: otis smith,rockfall,conn. squeeze handle tool,whats it?
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2013, 08:57:49 AM »
Definitely a saw set.  Looks to me like an improvement on the 1848 Stillman's Saw Set Patent , by adding a plier leg.
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Re: otis smith,rockfall,conn. squeeze handle tool,whats it?
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2013, 09:04:25 AM »
>.i think they made guns in the 19th century

I also see them listed as maker of a patented plane (Fales) and wire clamps and other misc things, almost everybody who was anybody made sawsets, so it is certainly reasonable...

They seem to be worth something, unusual for a sawset...
  http://www.jonzimmersantiquetools.com/show/smith_saw_set.html
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Just a weathered light rust/WD40 mix patina.
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