The little square is an old Craftsman, the larger (with two heads) is marked M.F.Co. (the extra head had no rule and no pin.   The "Bell System" is on the old brace.

now that is a score...

Wow, that's a nice little combination square! It even has the scribe!!

Edited September 26, 20187 yr by lew

Nice find.  I have some wrenches like that and use them too.  They aren't pretty but are tough and work well.

14 hours ago, p_toad said:

The little square is an old Craftsman, the larger (with two heads) is marked M.F.Co. (the extra head had no rule and no pin.   The "Bell System" is on the old brace.

That little square is quite the find Pete. Excellent condition too.

Nice score on the pipe wrenches especially the Rigid's and an 18" to boot.

The M.F. Co. = Millers-Falls, likely the 1940's. The "Bell Systems" brace probably is a Stanley made exclusively for Bell Telephone Ee's/Installers.

The Stanley Handyman driver is a great one...that much be 18" OAL...probably also used by a telephone installer.

Love the two wrenches with 25/32". I have a few similar I bought new back in the 1960's.

 

Quite the finds and haul overall haul. I'm green just looking.

I still have a whole box of other combo and open end wrenches to get to and will hopefully get these cleaned up a bit more.   Not familiar with the Dunlap one, but it's super heavy duty compared to the Ridgids.   And yes, i needed another architects/engineers scale. 

 

I think the screwdriver is a 131; much larger than the others I have, but a very smooth operator.

Edited September 26, 20187 yr by p_toad

48 minutes ago, p_toad said:

Not familiar with the Dunlap one, but it's super heavy duty compared to the Ridgids.

Dunlap was a Sears Brand sold along side Craftsman. A number of Dunlap hand tools were made after WWII in the occupied zones of Germany.

 

Companion was an early brand name (from 1933 or thereabouts) for Sears Roebuck tools. Companion tools were less expensive than the contemporaneous Craftsman tools. It was replaced by the Dunlap name in 1941.

http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=222

 

 

6 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Dunlap was a Sears Brand sold along side Craftsman. A number of Dunlap hand tools were made after WWII in the occupied zones of Germany.

 

Companion was an early brand name (from 1933 or thereabouts) for Sears Roebuck tools. Companion tools were less expensive than the contemporaneous Craftsman tools. It was replaced by the Dunlap name in 1941.

http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=222

 

 

Dave I thought the Companion was used in the 70's also. Not in the reference that way but there was another Sears brand cheaper than Craftsman in the 70's and 80's

Had a Companion #4 plane once....was a dead ringer for a Stanley Handyman #4....only difference between the two was the lever cap...

 

The "Non-Ridgid" pipe wrenches were known as  Stilson (sp?)   Have had a few of each....including a 8" Stilson....

9 hours ago, Gerald said:

Dave I thought the Companion was used in the 70's also. Not in the reference that way but there was another Sears brand cheaper than Craftsman in the 70's and 80's

It was Gerald. Sears "resurrected" the brand and I believe finally trademarked it in the 80's?? as a less expensive alternative to the Craftsman brand. IIRC, Companion line tools (modern version) only carried a limited or one or two year warranty vs most of the Craftsman line which had a Lifetime replacement. Just goes to show, there really isn't "nothing new under the sun."

I like the Yankee screwdriver. I have one just like it. I got it in 1979.