Vintage Wooden Adjustable Clamps by the Jorgensen Co circa 1950's-Set of Two

This is a set of vintage adjustable wooden clamps by the Jorgensen Co, Chicago, Ill.
They are in excellent condition both to the eye and working.
The set includes one large wooden clamp measuring 10" length x 4" x 1 1/2"
the second smaller clamp measures 8" length x 3 1/2" x 1 1/2"
Both are marked and the etchings are clear on both sides with the company name and Made in USA.
The smaller clamp is clean with minimal signs of wear, the larger clamp was loved and used with old glue perhaps.

The Adjustable Clamp Company stood out as the rare "feel good" story amidst a sea of shuttered factories, outmoded merchandise, and forgotten dreams in Chicago. The respected tool manufacturer, which changed its name to Pony Tools in 2013 (adopting the title of one of its’ long-running brands), was an honest-to-gosh family business with a local history dating back more than a century. Its chairman, Doug Holman, was actually the great-great grandson of the original founder, Adele V. Holman—a trailblazing woman who presided over a thriving manufacturing business nearly two decades before she had the right to vote.
 Hans Jorgensen—inventor of trusty hand screws—got the ball rolling in 1903. Jorgensen had his product and the skill to manufacture it, but he lacked the capital to start a business. This brought him into contact with an opportunistic Chicago lawyer named Marcus W. Russ, who agreed to fund the effort, serving as the first company president and sole salesman. In the early years, the whole operation ran out of one room, with a tiny staff of several workers hand-making each and every clamp. As demand increased, Russ purchased a separate manufacturing facility at 216 North Jefferson Street, with a half dozen employees making a still meager 300 clamps per week. It was around this time, in 1907, that a whirlwind of a woman named Adele Holman walked through Russ's door. It was literally music to the lawyer's ears.
While this is never mentioned in any of the Adjustable Clamp Co's own company histories, Adele Holman was already something of a local celebrity when she bought her first shares in the business. For much of the 1880s and '90s, the Jerseyville, Illinois native made her career—much like our most famous 21st century "Adele"—as a touring vocalist, eventually becoming the star mezzo-soprano and manager for the very popular Arion Lady Quartet.
As the 20th century dawned, Adele was still listed in the Chicago City Directory as a "Vocalist," and she had a "wide and enviable reputation as a musician of remarkable talent and most gracious personality." Circumstances began to change in 1905, however, when her husband Harry W. Holman (a railroad clerk she had married at the ripe old age of 15) suddenly died. At the same time, their lone son, Harry V., was off in Colorado working for a gold mining company. Based on the cultural expectations of the time period, Adele should have assumed the role of the middle-aged lonely widow. She could have spent her days sipping tea at Marshall Field's or comparing hat sizes with other ladies at various meetings of "enthusiast" groups. But that was never her style. Instead, with the fairly substantial funds at her disposal, Adele decided to take the management experience she'd gained booking shows for her "band" and apply it to a new pursuit.
With her initial purchase of Adjustable Clamp Co. shares in 1907, she replaced Walter Caddock as secretary, and while Marcus Russ was technically still the president, Adele Holman immediately took charge.
By 1914, Adele bought out the rest of Russ's shares for $18,000, taking full ownership of the Adjustable Clamp Company. Three years later she expanded the factory, with 15 mechanics producing close to 2,000 clamps per week, of new and varying models. Orders were coming in from around the world, and Holman's name was gaining recognition outside the circles of music.
The praise continued. And remember, this is 1918, still two years before Adele or any other American woman had the right to vote.
Adele remained the leader of Adjustable Clamp—the furthest thing from a figurehead—up until her death in 1932. As a rather cruel insult, her gravestone in Jerseyville reads merely, "ADELE V., WIFE OF HARRY W. HOLMAN." Twenty years as a world class singer, another 30 years building a successful international tool company, and in the end, she was just somebody's wife
So next time you’re using a Jorgensen clamp or a Pony tool of any kind, think about Adele and her friends singing ‘Way Down Upon the Suwannee River,” and realize there is an artist’s sensibility even in the most mundane of factory-made products.
Some of the other early Adjustable Clamp Co. creations—like the metal Pony and Jorgensen “C” Clamps (patented by Adele’s son Harry V. Holman) were also left mostly unaltered after their 1920s/30s introductions. In the ‘50s and ‘60s, third-generation owner D.V. Holman helped usher in another line of successful clamps, and his son, Daniel, expanded to bench vises and miter saws under the same Pony, Jorgensen, and Adjustable brand names. The arsenal was established, and only the world around the Holmans was ever gonna change.