Vintage "Barcalo Buffalo USA" Double Open End Wrench 1/2"  x 9/16"  DROP FORGED

Description

Vintage "Barcalo Buffalo USA" Double Open End Wrench 1/2" x 9/16" DROP FORGED.
****Tools of Our Grandfathers***
This tool is around 80-90 years old. (anywhere from 1931 to the end of the thirties.)
The size is 4.9 inches, and the finish looks to be Cadium type
The tools shows signs of wear, pitting, some spots where the finish is thin or gone.(see the pictures)
It still is in good condition on the wrench oipenings, and is ready to go back to work, or to add to your collection.
Sold as is, with no warranty.
***Did you know***
The Barcalo Manufacturing Company, Buffalo, New York started out making Edward Barcolo heading a merged company that made Steel and Brass Beds and other outdoor steel products. In 1914, the acquisition of the Charles H. Hall Company led to the addition of hand tools to their product line. After World War I, Barcalo began supplying tools to the Ford Motor Company, and also selling them through the Larkin Company's mail order business.
By the 1950's the company was employing 550 workers, but Edward Barcalo was over 80 and began to back away from the day-to-day operation of the business.
On his death in 1963, the tool division was sold to Crescent Niagara which had already acquired Crescent Tools and Billings & Spencer, and which would add the Bridgeport Hardware Manufacturing Company to its fold the following year.
The Barcalo identity and brand name soon disappeared.
In 1968, Crescent Niagara itself was absorbed by Cooper Industries, at the beginning of the trend towards giant corporate ownership of formerly independent tool companies.
Source:http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2016/12/vanished-tool-makers-barcalo.html