P, S & W Co. was Peck Stow and Wilcox, the 1870 amalgamation of three competing metal working companies that had been in the tin smith toolmaking business in Connecticut from the late 1700s. Although I expect this ornate clamp was long out of production by then, in 1950 the company was bought by Billings and Spencer.
An era where design could take a purely utilitarian object and make it elegant. Those designers and pattern makers were truly artists. Sometimes less is not always more.
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