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

 

Coming to an airport near you!

S wrench by York

 

 Two possibilities on this one. Either the  York wrench Co of Duluth, founded in 1921 (History at Alloy Artifacts) or it's an industrial service wrench from the York Manufacturing Company (commonly known as the York Ice Machinery Corp who started business in 1874 making ice machinery and as refrigeration was taking over from iceboxes, changed to the air conditioning business.

Too bad the markings are hard to read.

GSXR Chevrolet S-10 promotion

  I don't remember ever seeing this promotional tie-up in any magazine back then. A Chevrolet S-10 pickup in GSXR colours. I expect it was attempting to follow the Yamahauler Toyota trucks of a few years previous. the linkup was featured in the Suzuki Family corporate magazine- which I'd never seen before...

Thanks, Kevan!

 

Brown & Sharpe Micrometer

 Here's a nice micrometer for those vital measurements you need to take- between 17 and 18 inches.