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historical makers of adjustable darby leg irons

3 visible archived posts · 3 preserved total · topic ID 7835
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RyanVaene 08 Dec 2024
#1
Hi fellow collectors,

In the early days of my collecting, I remember seeing what appeared to my at the time uninformed mind a genuine steel vintage adjustable darby leg iron. I purchased an early KUB-919 adjustable darby leg iron (with the round cross section) instead.

As a more informed collector years later, the only adjustable darby leg irons I've seen has been by Clejuso.

Are the "ones that got away" more likely to have been an Indian reproduction, or were there adjustable darby leg irons made by, say, Hiatt, Froggatt, RCS, Thompson etcetera?
CHRISCUFFS 08 Dec 2024
#2
As far as I know Hiatt, Froggatt, Nichols never made an adjustable legiron (or at least in the 50 years of collecting I have never seen any).
RCS did make a few brass Legirons in the 1940’s and I think only 3 are known to exist, again these were not adjustable.
KruegerKuffs 08 Dec 2024
#3
Here are some photos of adjustable Clejusos, one with a rod ...