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I have several in the rehab box. Socket style with green plastic handles that will be wooden ones when I'm done.
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Greenlee made quality chisels, might not have the appeal of Stanley or Berg, you can't go wrong.
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I've got one, and it's every bit as good as my other vintage chisels. I use it all the time.
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Quality stuff; if they are cheap its because they are underappreciated, and generally vintage chisels are hard sells nowadays, unless you have the "names" everybody likes. Don't hesitate, if I saw a set on a market table reasonably priced they would be in my bag in a nanosecond.
Edit: I just checked the recent listings on ebay, and they are getting pretty good prices, actually.... so I stand corrected.
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I have a pair of Greenlee chisels that i have been using for about 50 years. My grandfather bought them in 1930. They are tang chisels and have a logo with Greenlee on a straight ribbon with an oval background with Rockford Il. The only steel I have used that is finer is 19th century English.
The tangs are very fine, which is nice for changing a handle. I put longer handles on as they have been used quite a bit.
Around 1980, with the hand tool renaissance, Greenlee started marketing chisels again, but they were not manufacturing them. So if a chisel looks like it was made in Sheffield, it probably was the same as some contemporary English manufacture.