RE: [flasah] Can anyone ID these tools?

 

I did some Google search and found the Pliers tool marked Samson No. 1.  It was in the advertising section of a 1922 Popular Mechanics!  It is a hand punch.  It punched metal through 20 gauge untempered steel and I think it said up to 3/16" which surprises me.  The die in it looks like a small Greenlee punch.
 
It says it's also good for paper, leather cardboard, etc., up to 1/4"  It came with changeable handles and dies from 1/16" to 1/4" holes in about 6 steps.  But all I have it the 1/4" die set that came in it.
 
It is a heavy duty tool, I'll say that! 
 
I'll probably eBay it as an antique maybe... not sure yet.  Will probably do the same with the gravers and stuff since I have no use for them.  Although the 52's and a couple others look like they might make a good tool to undercut things like the horse nostrils and so on.
 
 
Tom
From: flasah@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flasah@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kee
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 9:09 PM
To: flasah@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flasah] Can anyone ID these tools?

 


Peter is definitely right about them being gravers. My friend the jeweler used them for his work.  His were a little smaller but were the same thing.  They are used for engraving.  I would guess that with them being in with leather tools that the previous owner may have been doing some silversmithing  Of course you can use them on most anything, even something like very fine wood carving.

Gary

PS: I could figure out what the pliers type tool was.  Anybody else figure it out?



--- On Fri, 3/4/11, Tom <tom@legacyleathercraft.com> wrote:

From: Tom <tom@legacyleathercraft.com>
Subject: RE: [flasah] Can anyone ID these tools?
To: flasah@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, March 4, 2011, 6:19 PM

 

OK.  What's a Graver?

From: flasah@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flasah@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Main
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 6:55 PM
To: flasah@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flasah] Can anyone ID these tools?

 

...some of the pictures shown are 'gravers'.
 
Peter
 
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 5:47 PM
Subject: [flasah] Can anyone ID these tools? [5 Attachments]

 

Hi Folks,
 
My sister bought be a box of old leather tools at an auction,  Got a strap cutter, a pliers type hole punch, a number of stamps.. mostly dupes but a few new ones, a couple of lacing chisels, wooden mallet, sewing awl, some regular awls and a few tools I don't recognize.
 
I got several that are flat with a chisel point that say 52 on the side.  One says Victor and looks like a 55 stamped on it.  One I think is a Fid, but since I don't have one I don't know what the look like.  It sort of resembles a triangular sewing needle without the eye hole
 
One heavy metal punch type tool and a couple that have square shafts with either a flat end or a point files across the diagonals if that makes sense.
 
Last, there is what appears to be a hole punch.   It says Sampson No. 1 and is made by Machine Appliance Corp of New Your.
 
I'll try to post pictures here.
 
Thanks
 
Tom


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