Attached are pix of a spiffy 8" brace that just arrived from a UK seller courtesy of everyone's favorite auction site. I found it after missing out on a few 8" Stanley 2100/2101's which are going for $$$ these days.
It's marked as a Stanley 925 made in New Britain with a nice Sweetheart logo (shown in the pix). Head is ball bearing, jaws are the interlocking alligator kind, chuck shell has interesting flat sides.
The funny thing is that when I looked around a little to see how much to bid and whether these were any good - all the information I found said there was no such thing as a Stanley 925 brace, let alone a Sweetheart with nice cocobolo handles and the old-fashioned looking (pewter?) inset rings.
Closest I came was on sydnassloot's excellent brace info page, which has an image of a 925-10 inch and says it wasn't in the Stanley catalogs (last one under the "Stanley" info page).
Can anyone help fill in the blanks? Were there lots of tools not in the catalogs? Was this some kind of special run or shortlived type? Or do I have a Sasquatch brace? Thanks for any help,
Dave
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