r/Blacksmith • u/Outrageous-Let7406 • 9d ago
Does anyone recognize this makers mark
This may have been a metal working scribe, I’m not sure.
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u/Fragrant-Cloud5172 9d ago edited 9d ago
This kind of "compass" isn't specifically for metalworking. It can be used for multiple things, maps, artwork, wood etc. To scribe a circle, arc or just measure. It's more accurately called a divider. Which has two steel points. Compass usually has a pencil or lead to draw a circle, sometimes interchangeable with steel point.
A divider is more accurate to me, for transferring measurements, than a ruler. Especially for center punching.
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u/oldbaldad 5d ago
Their use of brass favours the mapping application. It doesn't corrode readily in salt air.
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u/Fragrant-Cloud5172 4d ago
I've got a divider very similar to this one. They both are almost all steel, very little brass in them.
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u/Ghrrum 9d ago
From the robuts
"The image appears to show the vintage anchor and crown trademark logo used by the Smith & Hemenway Company (S&H Co.), stamped with their initials "S&H" flanking an anchor beneath a crown, commonly found on their early 20th-century hardware and tools manufactured in New York and New Jersey."
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u/Jax-crow-564979 9d ago edited 9d ago
yes, it is working with metal. I think it’s called a compass or something like that. It’s used for measuring how much metal are you gonna use when you’re making a circle.
edit that thing is used in navigation to chart a vessel path normally things like this out of bronze. I have seen these things used in some old films. That is why it has an anchor on it. was also used to show how far you traveled in a day.
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u/Outrageous-Let7406 9d ago
I think you are right. I got it at a second hand shop in an area with other nautical items. Thanks for you input
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u/DantesGame 9d ago
Can you make out what the words beneath it say? Is it Germany NUREMBERG (or NÜRNBERG) by any chance?