For sale is an awesome Gas or Kerosene Brass Blow Torch with a pistol grip handle made by the Wall Manufacturing Company. This torch has been painted and has some pitting on one side but the torch also has its original decal which is often missing. The decal states the company slogan “Wall Around The World”. The torch stands about 11 inches high. The base of the torch is 5 and 1/2 inches in diameter. A superior collectible antique tool.
In 1864, a young entrepreneur from Ireland, Patrick Wall, founded a manufacturing company in Pittsburgh, PA. He named the new company P. Wall Manufacturing Company. Mr. Wall thus launched a distinguished career which spanned some fifty-seven years before relinquishing control of the company to a younger group of owners in 1921. Some of the early products manufactured were oil cans, blow torches, plumber’s furnaces, metal gongs used on horse-drawn street cars and in coal mines, and ice cans used for the production and transportation of ice before the advent of electrical refrigeration.
