This Railway Wrench was found by a friend on a bush walk. It had been abandoned in the woods for many years and badly rusted.
I wanted to keep as much of the texture created by the rust pitting and clean it up for my personal collection.
During the restoration process I uncovered that it was made by F.Lassetter & Co.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, F Lassetter & Co, known as Lassetter's, was one of the largest and oldest retailers in Sydney Australia.
The company's name F Lassetter & Co was created in 1863 and as an ironmonger, it stocked all types of products made of metal, selling everything from steam engines, agricultural machinery and tools, to builders' hardware, light fittings, kitchen ranges, fireplace grates and cutlery.
Lassetters ceased trading in 1926 .At the time, it was claimed to be the largest liquidation sale ever to have taken place in Australia.

I could not find any catalogues of pictured online which shows this wrench so I can only assumed it was sold between 1863 1926.
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