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postimages.org is up, but I just checked i.postimg.cc, which is the URL for uploaded images, and it seems to be down. That's why we can't see the photos in this thread.
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Ah, now I see the images. I agree about the first being a reamer. I think the second may be a tubing flaring tool, but it it is, the mating piece to clamp the tubing is not present.  Big Al
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I think we have a winner! As soon as I read Big Al's description to Mr wtg, he not only agreed, but said he thinks the other part of the tool may be in a toolbox that we haven't gone through yet. He even described it, down to the wing nuts... 
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The other part of the pipe flaring tool:  How to flare tubing: We don't have the double flaring attachments.
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Twenty-five or thirty years ago, we scavenged a bunch of stuff from an old two flat that had been in the family of Mr wtg's former co-worker for almost a hundred years. Here's the house at 1923 N Howe in Chicago. It looked nothing like this when we saw it in the late 1980s/early 1990s. https://www.zillow.com/homedet...614/2111210768_zpid/ The family patriarch was a man named Max Haidl, who also had a son named Max J Haidl. The family was big on putting their name or initials on their belongings. We found monogrammed bath and hand towels, and one or the other of the Maxes seemed to be big on marking his work tools. Next tool, probably not much of a challenge to identify. But when I opened the box and saw Max's name and the date scrawled inside, I felt like I was holding a little bit of someone's life in my hands. The obits for father and son. Note that Max Sr. was waked at home: https://www.findagrave.com/mem.../161750013/max-haidl https://www.findagrave.com/mem.../maximillian-j-haidl The tool, in a dirty little red box, all taped up:  Out of the box, with the tool opened up. About three or four inches long.  Max's name and the date inside the box lid:  Emma Weisbecker, the last of the Haidls, the one who was still living on Howe up to the late 1980s. Emma was the elder Max's daughter. https://www.findagrave.com/mem...emma-anna-weisbecker RIP, Haidls and Weisbeckers.
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Another puzzler. Maybe 8 or 10 inches long.  Max put his name on this one, too: 
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First is a set of thread gages; second is a handle used with taps (threading tools). Big Al
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Right again! We have the taps but I thought I'd see if anyone recognized the tool without them. OK, how about this? About 12" long. 
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At that size, probably for sheep shearing. Smaller versions used for topiary and my wife has some for bonsai
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I should have known that AD would get that last one...the company that made it is still in business in Sheffield. https://www.burgonandball.com/ Sheep shearing tools: https://www.burgonandball.com/...tions/sheep-shearing
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