What's this

[jon f mn]

Someone sent this to me wondering what it
was. If anyone knows what it's for please
let us know.

 

[RJKeith]

Looks like a template for grinding angles, like sharpening knives or chisels.

 

[Ande]

I think Case gave them to customer's at one time for a promotion

 

[jon f mn]

Chisels have double angles so I was wondering about that. Some said maybe for sickle sections and the holes to size rivets. I thought maybe to pre set sieves in a threshing machine and the holes to size that type sieve. I'm sure I don't have the answer.

 

[CaseDC3]

It's this...

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Neat tool. I don't think I have one around here. But I have seen them, without the Case brand on them.

 

[chcase]

Jon as casedc3 showed it was a promotional item dealers gave away.I have one that my dad got from a AC dealer when he bought a new AC 60 combine.

 

[LPakiz]

I could see one of those to use for chopper or silo filler knives. Also for lawn mower blades.

 

[RJKeith]

Cold chisels have a double angle, wood chisels have a single angle though. But the advertisement with the different knives is probably the correct answer and very interesting.

 

[Butch/ Ohio]

Back in the 50's and 60's Case would offer a different item every year for their dealers to give away at open houses, county fairs, or at times when a customer got a demonstration of a new machine. Those manure spreader cleaning tools with the twine cutter and the wooden handle were another item that dealers gave away.
In the 60's they had a program every summer where customers who would get a demonstration of a new tractor would be entered into a drawing for a bigger ticket item to be given away at the end of the season. Among those prizes I remember an intercom set one year, another year, a black and white Polaroid camera, a 19 inch portable television.