Last labour day at the Tractor Fest...picked this little guy for about a dollar bill

Yeah.  The black part will retract, to allow you to change bits.  Lots of scratches on the silver part.  It does not rotate.

Any tip with a single notch will work.  The double ones will not lock into the handle. 

The brown part is not wood.   Looks like a cap was installed on the end?   Looks like a brown Bakelite.  Tried a more "modern" tip..

As long as they are longer than the ones that fit into a tip holder.   Even most tip holders will work.   Thought it MIGHT be a Tung-Sol brand...but all they made was radio vacumn tubes.

 

Will try to bring out what those scratches say, IF I can......anyone see a handle like this before?

The grooves look like the ones on an early xcelite handles. 

11 hours ago, lew said:

The grooves look like the ones on an early xcelite handles. 

Holy crud Lew! Of all the places to find the name of an obscure screwdriver and it's posted here, and you may know that manufacturer! 

13 hours ago, lew said:

The grooves look like the ones on an early xcelite handles. 

Lew,

Is that the same xcelite that later made the x-acto knives? 

Not sure about the X-acto knive. The Xcelite hand tools I am familiar with are the ones used primarily in the electronics field- cutters, pliers, screw drivers , spin tights ,etc.