| Davistown Museum Inventory of Tools - Maritime IV | Wrenches |
| | Status | Location |
| | 102904T6 | Adjustable wrench | photo | DTM |
| Drop-forged iron and steel, 13 1/4" long, 3 3/4" long and 1 1/8" wide jaws, marked "R". |
| This mid-19th century factory made wrench is one of the largest and most sculptural of the twisted handled wrenches first |
| made by the Owsley Bros & Marble (see Cope, pg. 172, 191), patented in 1883 by Frederick Seymour. Later these Acme |
| style wrenches were made by George Marble himself, 1887-88, Capitol Wrench Co. until 1893, and Whitman & Barnes after |
| 1893. All of these Acme style wrenches, however, were signed by their makers, have clearly serrated adjustable nuts and |
| are smaller in size than this monster. This wrench has only the one "R" mark and shows more hand work than the typical |
| factory made Acme, a not uncommon tool. It suggests a smith-made prototype, which then would have been patented and |
| manufactured in a more sophisticated version by George Marble in Chicago in 1883. Did he find a wrench like this back in |
| | 11301T12 | Monkey wrench | bio | BDTM |
| Cut steel and wood, 4 5/8" long, signed "L Coes & Co Pat Mar 29 1868". |
| Loring and his brother Aury Gates Coes had been in the wool machine business until 1839. This is the highly sought-after |
| smallest size of the many Coes wrenches. |
| | TCZ1008 | Open ended wrench | DTM |
| Forged iron, 7 1/2" long, 5/8" and 3/4" ends, signed "YORK M. Co", ca. 1850 - 1860. |
| Maker not listed in DATM (Nelson 1999). |
| | TCZ1006A | Open ended wrenches | photo | DTM |
| Forged or reforged iron, signed "W. C. HASLAM" on two of them, 1840 - 1875. |
| Eight open ended wrenches typical of mid-19th century mills and workshops. |
| | 31501T2 | Wrench | DTM |
| Drop forged steel, 14" long, signed "E RIPLEY'S PATENT APRIL 7, 1857". |
| DATM (Nelson 1999) lists E. Ripley as working from prior to 1857 to 1865, location unknown. This may be the only known |
| specimen of this wrench. |
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