Monday Mystery

 Looks like part of some blacksmith or farmer-made device. The handle look worn by hand use, but no idea what they might have been used for. Any ideas?

Some kinda hook...

I can't figure this one out.

 

Sidecar Sunday

Looks good in yellow.

 

Know your Livingston hammers...

Handles not included... 

  Livingston Mfg. set up in Rockland Maine in 1890 to make stone cutting, shipwright and blacksmith tools. In 1928 the manager of the company, Putnam Bicknell, acquired a controlling interest and changed the name to Bicknell Manufacturing. The factory continued production for several more decades, despite the dying stone trade and the rise of steel construction in ships.

One of my vices is vises, Defiance by Stanley

Stylish little streamlined 2.5" vise and apparently the one red jaw was stock.  Nice.

 

The "Blue 'un" 1957

 

Planes in formation; English Electric Lightnings

 

Transvaal money bank

 Here's an oddity found at an antique store, a savings bank modelled after an unflattering caricature of Paul Kruger, president of South Africa from 1883 to 1900. The caricature, drawn by Francis Carruthers Gould had appeared in the Westminster Gazette. The 6 inch tall bank was made by the British company John Harper and Co. of Birmingham.

Fray and Pigg Brace

Here's about the most basic of braces, the knob is a separate part as is the wing nut on the simple  Spofford patent type chuck/clamp. That's it, and it all works perfectly a hundred or more years later.  The cast in 8 on the bottom of the knob refers to the swing. Fray and Pigg braces were apparently made starting in 1859, The John Fray company was purchased by Stanley in 1909. More here. 

 

 

1975 El Camino

 

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