Beautiful Old "Perfect Handle" Style Flat Head Screwdriver hunter and skiers

and skiers

dated 1869 at lower right

I think perhaps technically they are Melamine

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Beautiful Old "Perfect Handle" Style Flat Head Screwdriver hunter and skiersA beauty of a screwdriver, and a total joy to grip, with a perfectly shaped handle made heavy by the fact that the steel runs the entire length and breadth of it. And indeed, I believe this is what is known as a perfect handle screwdriver, which patented by H. D. Smith Co of Platsville, Connecticut in 1910 or so, but with many other makers to follow century. There is no mark on this one anywhere that I can find but based on the nails and the wood, I