Henry D Smith founded the self-named company to produce castings and forgings at Plantsville, Conn. for the carriage and wagon manufacturing trade. In 1900, with the writing on the wall for horse-drawn equipment, the company reorganized to focus on a line of tools featuring rivetted wooden handles which they named Perfect Handle tools. The line included a range of pipe wrenches, adjustable wrenches as well as hammers, plain wrenches and screwdrivers, this 1914 catalog shows a few of their products.
In 1929, the company was sold at auction to an oilman, George Lassen who planned on continuing the tool manufacture but Trimont acquired the company a year later and the Perfect Handle line was phased out.
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