This one is a bit of a mystery. Someone was cleaning the metal leftovers from an estate in Hamilton Ontario and found a number of these wrenches in the collection. They're clearly homemade and could be considered crude, the jaws are sawn and filed out. There are file marks in the transitions between head and handle. Whoever R F Flock was, he spent a lot of time on these, even chrome plated them, but the job seems incomplete, the wrench does not lie flat on a table. His name is stamped on one side, yet did not mark the sizes, 13/16 and 7/8". Wish I knew more about the man!
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That is a mystery. Do you know if the other wrenches are different sizes or are they all that one size?
I wonder of "FLOCK." (with a period) is short for a longer name, like maybe "Flockensteinmeister?"
All I can think of is some kind of trade school project...like machinists ho virtually always made a mill vise as part of their training.
According to the person I got it from, that was his name. He didn't mention what sizes the other ones were. We've seen other home made tools, but none really worth the expense of chroming- but we don't know what services he had access to.
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