This eight-inch swing brace has none of its original nickel plating, but there is now a rich brown patina on the smooth steel and iron.  The Ellrich patent ratchet housing has the patent date faintly stamped on it, and although the Peck & Powers chuck doesn't, the chuck has the retention screw that PEXTO added to prevent loss of the jaws.  The pad's ball bearings are original and fully functional.  No apologies.

Here is that faintly stamped patent date of February 19, 1884.  As the wrist handle's

patent was dated June 11, 1901, this brace was one of a very few made during the four months' overlap between the expiration of one patent and  the inception of the other.

The two-piece rosewood wrist handle assembles in George Allen's complex, patented mechanism as do only a few PEXTO braces and is in good condition as well.