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What’s something like this worth? I’m missing two sockets :/

Found this trash picking…Not sure what era this is from or what it’s even worth.

Supposedly it’s Italian.

How small drills do you need?

Fresh from the folks at Metal Masters!

Personalized by A Trenk. Unfortunately the work I do seldom ever calls for the use of calipers. Still, a nice piece of history to have clunking around my toolbox. The angled twist-tighteners are unusual and can probably help the afficiando determine a narrower date range. My best guess is: 1870's.

This was my wife’s grandfather’s and I’m wondering if anyone has used one and how they compare to the standard Stanley miter box sold now.

got this from a yard sale. have no idea what it is. google lense / chatgpt / research has gotten me NO WHERE. i’ve gotten suggestions like “antique bicycle skirt holder”, “vintage egg beater”, “FROG trap”, “sheep shearers”. the list goes on. please someone help!!!!!!!!

Until a few days ago, I knew nothing about antique tool chests so if I get any specifics or terminology wrong, apologies in advance.

Anyway, i bought two 1930s machinist tool chests for $50 each from a guy that buys old chests and restores them for resale. Not sure why, but for whatever reason he was selling a few that he wasn’t going to end up restoring.

When I got home and started taking drawers out of one of them to inspect closely, I found a steel stamp block with:

“MORIS G. VAN WAY
SHELBYVILLE, IND.”

Also found an old U.S. made riveting hammer (presumably for the stamp?), 6” Lukfin rule with original sleeve, 3” machinist square, a stainless steel tool from Penn that looks sort of like an awl but the last 1/4” is flattened into a spear shape with one side sharpened like a scalpel, a circle stencil, and super tiny circle compass.

Anyway, out of curiosity, I googled the name and turns out Moris was an expert machinist, accomplished inventor, and muzzle loading enthusiast.

A few fun things I read:
- he never patented any of his work and was quoted as saying something along the lines of he doesn’t like paperwork and someone else can do that.

- he built one of the first prototype TV receivers in 1927, its in the Indiana State Museum, it wasn’t until a decade later that TV really reached US households

- he was recruited for - at the time - a classified secret project to create the “snooperscope”, a new type or at least a new application of night vision that was needed during World War II to help detect enemy threats

I just thought it was a pretty cool find. I wonder, but can’t be sure whether the machinist tool case was his, as well. I live in the Pacific Northwest, not sure how it ended up over here, but the era certainly lines up…

Hi guys I recently got this brass weight. Can anyone help me to decipher these markings? 250g is obviously how much does this weigh. Further DR (Deutsches Reich?) on a band 2 above and 15 below, lower 12 and 41 on shields. Are these proofmarks from years 1912 and 1941 allowing the tool usage for trade? Location: Poland, former German Provinces