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Extremely Rare J.L. Ware steel yoke post vise 1900's of St.Paul MN - $3,000 (Richfield)

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condition: excellent
make / manufacturer: J.L. ware / James Smart mfg. Co.
model name / number: Steel Yoke Vise
size / dimensions: 4.5 inch

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J.L. Ware
Joseph Lemuel Ware, of St.Paul MN

Manufactured by:
The James Smart Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
Brockville, Ontario Canada

The James Smart Company was established in Brockville Ontario in 1854 and was considered to be Canada's oldest factory. They specialised in manufacturing a number of household and industrial wares. The company existed until 1967 when it closed after more than a hundred years of operation.


Vise is in excellent condition especially for being 110 to 145 years old.

These where called:
Yoke ... post vise
Yoke ... Leg vise

The jaws are 4-1/2 wide
& 3-1/2 deep
& 6-1/4 opening

Device is mounted on the bottom side of the bench

And the weight and the pounding force is taken/supported by the leg/post

This isn't very well-balanced vice s you can see in the pictures ..... That is not an illusion it is standing on its own. 140 pounds wow

This would be incredible in a blacksmith shop

This is a link of a similar vise and interesting article

https://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2021/01/one-of-my-vices-is-vises-j-smart-again.html?m=1


I am not sure when this 140 pound Ware vise was Manufactured.
I have spent many hours researching
And what I have found is somewhere between 1881 to 1916

Nostalgia ....... 110 years to 145 years ago just think of all the changes ..... this was Manufactured before World War 1.



I do not need to sell I want to sell because I currently have no real need for it or a area large enough to set up a workbench to support a large vise

Please call Jay or Beth with any questions at show contact info For quickest response please call for slow response please text or for the slowest response please email .... I Will NOT respond to your ..... please email me ...... your number will be blocked and reported as spam ......***** I Will NOT answer restricted numbers *****

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