This Solid Brass Torch is from Clayton and Lambert Manufacturing Company. It’s in Fine highly polished condition with red wooden handle. Very nice conversation piece. C1940. Still 100% functional. 10” in height. Railroad workers used blow torches to prepare wooden surfaces for painting and sometimes to melt ice on switches. Clayton and Lambert traces its history to 1888. Three Lambert brothers began making gasoline-burning blow torches in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in 1882...