Logo identification please

[RogerP]

Logo identification please. I really should know it but my memory is not what it was

 

[AndyT]

F W Fromholz of course! What's it on?

 

[RogerP]

Thanks very much

 

[AndyT]

No problem - I think you can be excused for not knowing that one! I didn't, but the web browser filled in 'Dolphin' for me in the search box on Wolfgang Jordan's excellent tri-lingual database, so I must have looked it up in the same place some time before.

 

[jimi43]

The Prof strikes again! :mrgreen:

=D>

Jimi

 

[RogerP]

The Prof strikes again! :mrgreen:
=D>
Jimi

Indeed, thank you Andy

The strange thing is I'm sure I've seen another very, very similar logo/trademark on some other tool I have here somewhere. Snag is it could be in any of a dozen or so boxes .... or it may not be here at all :shock: #-o I'll keep looking.

 

[bugbear]

Thanks very much

Nice photo.

BugBear

 

[AndyT]

Nice tool too. One of those easily-overlooked things which must have been standardised a century or two ago. Interesting that the standardisation extended internationally as well. They are still available of course, though the quality may have deteriorated somewhat - this is Axminster's current offering:

I know which one I would prefer!

 

[Richard T]

Often it has struck me that these hand vices are exact miniatures of blacksmiths' leg vices (without the leg). Roger's appears to have a blacksmith cut thread too.

The leg vice appeared around 1600 - 1610.