Price: $20.00 plus shipping.
This 14 inch swing brace is similar to
PEXTO-07, except that it has greater swing and a later ratchet mechanism. It does have the
Altwein patent jaws and Smith patent ball bearing chuck.
If one assumes that the jaws are not a later addition to this brace,
the presence of the July 9, 1895 patent date on the chuck and the
Altwein jaws (patented January 24, 1911) mean that the brace had to
have been made in the short period before the expiration of the chuck
patent (July 10, 1912) and within the period after Altwein applied for
his patent (May 24, 1910). I do not know how the later ratchet
mechanism squares with this sequence.
Alas, one of the Altwein jaws has been broken; and the wrist handle is cracked: