pair of original late 19th century vintage american industrial factory sheet metal worker shearing machine bench legs designed and fabricated around 1896-1900. the large foot pedal, side-springs and solid steel deck were removed long ago. the solid cast iron legs are bases contain pre-drilled floor plates for anchoring into the floor. mostly uniform silver metallic finish throughout. the peck, stow & wilcox company, located in southington, c.t (from 1870-1950), manufactured and sold bits, braces, chisels, dividers, draw knives, hammers, household tools, machinist tools, screwdrivers, tinsmith tools and wrenches. they would mark their tools with various combinations and configurations of full name, “p.s. &w. co.”, pexto, city/state, patent dates etc. plantsville, ct. and cleveland, oh. were additional factory locations used in some marks. peck, smith & co, the s. stow mfg. co and the roy’s & wilcox co. were the three primary businesses that merged to form this major tool company. others which were part of that merger or were acquired later were: a.w. whitney & sons; j.e. hull & co.; woodruff & wilcox; hart, bliven & mead mfg. co. cheshire edge tool co. and johns & co. the company was bought out by billings & spencer in 1950, but the name was still used for some time after that. their household tools included a variety of meat cutters, choppers, and grinders, sausage stuffers, coffee mills. priced for the pair. measure 24 x 2 x 30 inches.