I picked up this post vise at a car show back in July, to neat to pass up. I finally got around to taking some pictures of it. It has the through hole for the older style mounting bracket and a brazed box. The spring came with it but its missing the mounting bracket. The original pivot pin has been replaced by a carriage bolt at some point in the past as well. Over all the whole thing is in pretty good shape. Lots of small decorative details.

looks like a German style vise to me but don't take that as the gospel truth.

I agree with Mr.Miller.

The fact that is has a box, and also the "steps" behind the jaws scream German to me.

They are really wonderful vises, the box keeps everything in line and parallel, no twisting or unaligned jaws to speak of! I ended up making a cover ov sorts- two L shaped pieces that ride on top of the box to keep scale out. I grease the spring, and before the box, I would have to clean it out as it would get fairly clogged with scale.

Enjoy it, they are wonderful vises.

Aaron

It probably won't get used much but I do plan on making a new mount & pivot pin for it when time permits. I forget how wide the jaws are, I'll measure tonight.

The jaws are just shy of 4-3/8" wide.

looks lovely. I am very fond of old and decorated vices. I was just given a old English tennon mount vice, minus the tennon mount and the female screw in the box tore out. I will restore it this year