Mystery item - a wrench (spanner) perhaps?

Tony PP · 25th May 2014, 03:40 AM

Hello, I have often found spanners(Wrench) looking very much like the one in the picture. These have been tied to old Victorian iron beds and used for doing up the corner posts. Cast iron construction and often crudely made.

Matchlock · 25th May 2014, 06:04 AM

So have I.
These are primitively cast iron late 19th century Victorian/Historismus copies ...
Your item may be such a copy as the edges seem suspiciously beveled, and the rust scars are not typical of wrought iron either.

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25th May 2014, 03:40 AM	#1
Tony PP Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 26	Wrench Hello, I have often found spanners(Wrench) looking very much like the one in the picture. These have been tied to old Victorian iron beds and used for doing up the corner posts. Cast iron construction and often crudely made.

25th May 2014, 06:04 AM	#2
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	So have I. These are primitively cast iron late 19th century Victorian/Historismus copies ... Your item may be such a copy as the edges seem suspiciously beveled, and the rust scars are not typical of wrought iron either. m Last edited by Matchlock; 25th May 2014 at 09:56 PM.