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    Default Can you id this chisel decal?

    Hey all. I can't make out this decal on a chisel. Can you help?
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    Looks like a titan chisel sticker

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    Here is one by Charles Taylor's Sheffield tools ltd. Does anyone know what the reverse side (back) should be? This one is socketed, but it's been used as a cold chisel, and I'm undecided if I should resurrect it. Would have to take off the top 1/2 of the socket.
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    Clinton
    It is the vestiges of a Titan "Gold" decal.
    See example below and second chisel from left on the book cover.
    Dick (Titan person)
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    Clinton
    It is indeed the vestiges of the "Gold" Titan decal.
    See below
    DickGold decal 6.jpg

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    Thanks blokes, much appreciated.
    Dick - the blade isn't stamped with Titan, did they only put a decal on for those ones? The other Titans I've got are all stamped, with no decal (worn off I assume).
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    Clinton
    No blade stamp,not a Titan. OR, a second dug up from the burial pit at the factory site near Hobart (seen a few of these).
    As they didn't have facilities to melt seconds or blades damaged during manufacture down again, they buried them on site. Enterprising locals (and others) have been digging them up for years, ever since the value of Titans went up in recent years. Another possibility is that it could be a Stanley blade which is exactly the same as the Titan blades (made in the same factory) after 1976 but were marked with an etching process which quickly wore off.
    Anyway, the upshot of all this is as I said. No blade mark, not a Titan.
    Decals not so much wear off (with use) but weather off from leaving them outside or in unprotected, damp storage.
    The transfer type (which your example is) was particularly robust and will last for decades unlike the paper (stick on) decal of the late 1960's which simply fall off as the glue deteriorates.
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    Whats with the thumbnail of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov at the top of your posts?.
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    Thanks mate, I'll call it a Frankenstein chisel.
    The pic of Vladimir is to remind me to be careful of great ideas that come knocking on the door, they might be great in theory, but not in practice. Basically, just because you can, doesn't mean you should, if that makes sense?
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