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[Joe Bailey]

Found this a few days back while helping someone clean out their basement and garage. It looks not unlike a Wheeler, Madden & Clemson product, but no medallion and it's etch says "Paragon."
Any info greatly appreciated. For that matter, can anyone roughly bracket the dates for saws which would have these truncated conical nuts??

195683195684

[Jonathan McCullough]

The handle kinda looks like a Bay State Saw Co. offering to me. Might also be Atkins. I have not seen enough WMC saws, or catalogs featuring them, to be able to pick them out definitively, but I do know they had a saw with a metal escutcheon. You see those nuts on pre-Glover patent (approx 1879?) saws, such as Disston No. 12s, as well as mostly on saws that have metal escutcheon plates like that. I think that later on they were more prevalent on rougher, docking type saws like Simonds's Bay State Saws. I've got a Bay Stater like that, but it doesn't have the abortive thumb hole/thumb provision on the top like that one, and it doesn't quite match the WMC handle I know about (http://pedder-altedamenauskiel.blogspot.com/2010/05/wheeler-madden-clemson.html).

More pics of the etch might help.

[Joe Bailey]

More pics of the etch might help.

Here's the etch.
195740195740

Found this on Wiktor Kuc's site:
http://www.wkfinetools.com/hUS-saws/MSW-WMC/tools/MSW-Tools-index.asp

It says that the Monhagen saw works of Middletown, NY made saws under the names "Paragon" and "Wheeler, Madden & Clemson" among many others.