Pincers

[Lurker]

Bought a box of tools for £10 as I spotted a few nice things, mostly scrap metal though
Bottom pair I already have maybe ten, but the top ones are a little bit different from what I am familiar with.

 

[Mike G]

Those top ones look a bit more like cutters to me. People who do fencing, or who twitch steel reinforcing for concrete, use end cutters like those. They could, of course, just be pincers!

 

[Windows]

Brings back a memory: working with my dad and he asks me for the pincers and I handed him a tool that looked like the top ones and he says “not the nippers, the pincers”. They were very similar!

I could distinguish between them eventually partly from the handle but also the meeting point of the jaws was bevelled on both sides of the nippers, but only one side of the pincers.

 

[Mike G]

Oh yes, I remember where else I've seen them: nipping off the head of copper roves when building a clinker-built boat.

 

[Malc2098]

The handles of the top ones remind me of my dad's GPO pliers' handles. If there's traces of red paint on them, they could be GPO.

 

[AndyT]

I'm just glad to see that you haven't quite given up on finding new-to-you old tools at a bargain price!

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

The lower ones are all-round good for nail removal. The chisel-edged jaws get under the heads of upholstery tacks etc, and you then simply "rock' the implement sideways.
The real advantage is that chisel-shaped bifurcated claw on the upper side in the photograph. It can get right under a nail head if you hold them open and (gently!) hammer on the jaw at the other end of the arm from.the claw.
I have several sets, one of which is a recognised 'name' - which I can't presently check as No3 Child has them, 300 miles away.

 

[Lons]

No3 Child has them, 300 miles away.

Possibly never to be seen again Sam?

 

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

Possibly never to be seen again Sam?

I think there are several of us on here in the same boat, shrug

 

[Bod1]

Solved that boat, built and filled 3 small tool boxes with basic hand tools, one to each child, as they set up home.
However, I now have to take a 4th box with me on visits, as various small sticky fingers, mean some tools are now not in the boxes!
Most of the tools came cheaply from car boot sales, so not matching, but fully useable. Did make a point of new screwdriver's.

Bod1

 

[Lurker]

Those top ones look a bit more like cutters to me.

I think you could be right

 

[Lurker]

I'm just glad to see that you haven't quite given up on finding new-to-you old tools at a bargain price!

There were three things I spotted from the photo that I guessed were well worth the ten quid, but the box also yielded some pleasant surprises including six brand new hacksaw blades. The seller was three streets away from my son's house so I got him to collect and shared the bounty with him.