E&B Holmes was a company in Buffalo, New York that specialized in making machinery to mass produce barrels. The wrench would be part of the tool kit for making adjustments on the machinery, presumably.
They were in business from 1840 till 2002, having just missed the craft beer and distilling resurgence. The building at 59 Chicago St. Buffalo still stands.
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162 years is a long damn time, another victim to changing times I suppose. More here on a dying city and EB Holmes:
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The last picture in that linked article is the happiest. Thanks!
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