After combing through rusty piles of unloved apparatuses from years past, in shops dedicated to all things decrepit and threadbare, I'll post here the gems I unearth for resurrection and reinstatement. Brought back from their long slumber just in time before succumbing irrevocably to the inexorable invasion from their natural enemies: air and water.
E.C. Stearns started as the George N. Stearns Company in 1864, and was renamed in 1877 when George’s son Edward Carl took over. E.C. Stearns tools are especially…