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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 4117, member: 44&quot;]Good morning all! I here a silverplate &#039;headless&#039; turtle tape measure that I haven&#039;t been able to ID the mark. I know it isn&#039;t worth a &quot;plug nickel,&quot; but curiosity has gotten the best of me. As the old &quot;saw&quot; goes, curiosity killed the cat, **but** satisfaction brought it back! Silver turtle tape measures are a &quot;dime a dozen&quot; when Googled, but this one was my grandmother&#039;s and and then my mother. I have vivid memories of it from the mid 1940s. As a child I&#039;d loved to pull its head in and out. Mother scorned me a million times to stop that I was going to pull the head off. Welllll, I had forgotten about it until a couple of years ago when I found it stuck in the back corner of my mother&#039;s sewing table. Sure enough the head is gone and no doubt I did it. I have no idea how old it is or maker. So much for the provenance.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a maker&#039;s mark on the back that looks like 2 interlaced letters. My first thought was the Unger Bros., but on close-up I&#039;m about positive it is not the Unger Bros. I have searched the web for other turtle tapes with the same saying: &quot;Pull My Head But Not My Leg&quot; in hopes of seeing the same mark, but haven&#039;t found the same. I would love to know whose mark. It bothers me not to be able to ID a silver mark. There is no other markings on it. I have scanned the mark and rotated it this way and that noting possible ideas to the letters. None of the possibilities look like any familiar maker&#039;s mark I know. </p><p><br /></p><p>TIA.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~filearchives/silver/TurtleTapeMks-capsm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~filearchives/silver/TurtleTapeTB.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~filearchives/silver/TurtleTapeTopTape.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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