Here's another newer combination by James Smart. Previous post. This one is interesting because it's lightweight for such a tool, the anvil part has such thin walls, I'd be afraid to hit it with a hammer!
Here's another newer combination by James Smart. Previous post. This one is interesting because it's lightweight for such a tool, the anvil part has such thin walls, I'd be afraid to hit it with a hammer!
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This is a Smart No 4. Definitely suited to lighter duty than the No 3 in the previous post. The No 3 is marked "Smarts" whereas this one is "Smart". I believe the addition of the "s" indicates a more recent model so you might want to change the "newer" reference after the first photo.
This style was often called a "Farmers" vise. Similar models were made by a number of companies in the first half of the 1900s. It seems the Smart No 4 has a unique slide configuration, that plate which spans the base. Third photo shows it well.
It almost certainly is the anvil vise in the following Eaton's catalogs (and probably others I haven't seen): Summer 1945 p. 329; Winter 1948 p. 529; and Winter 1950 p. 591. Summer 1936 p. 239 and some earlier catalogs show a different anvil vise that looks like the Austin or Rock island versions: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/vise-info-thread.355753/post-8990188
Mister G, you've now spotted the No 3 and No 4, but the No 1 is still out there! (Haven't seen any mention of a No 2 anvil vise from Smart). It's the earliest (surprise) and heaviest of the three, appearing in Smart's own 1885 catalog and weighing in at 52 lbs. The only scan of that catalog is poor quality, so look here at the top of page 69:
https://archive.org/details/rice-lewis-illus-catalogue-1898/page/68/mode/2up
Regular readers of this terrific blog may recognize the vise at the bottom of p. 68: the infamous Guelph A&W vise ;)
https://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2022/04/one-of-my-vices-is-vises-or-maybe.html
If you're still with me, look across at the bottom of p. 69, where you will see the distinctive Diamond anvil and vise. First made and patented in the USA, it too was manufactured in Guelph by Auld & Woodyat. Which eventually merged with other firms to create Taylor-Forbes, which reminds me I need to comment on a post about an ETF clamp... all found in this blog. As I said, terrific!
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