Mixing clearly secondhand items such as the medals, with the boxed set of chisels which are clearly new.
The tool at the bottom left looks interesting. A handle with four rotating sockets at either end; so 8 sockets in one tool. Whether it would be robust enough for heavy work may be questionable maybe it was a general purpose socket spanner for a car toolkit. Looking through old catalogues there's nothing similar however.
Looking at it it seems the shopkeeper or his assistant must have spent an awful lot of coming out from behind the counter and outside the shop with the customer so that he (at an educated guess) could point out what he wanted. Also the lack of price tickets would seem to suggest a time when people trusted shopkeepers not to rip them off but charge a fair price.
The picture is from Flashbak a very good site featuring old photos from the 20's to the present day. But mainly of London, New York and the odd exception Birmingham and Liverpool in the UK San Francisco in the US or Vancouver as here. So maybe of lesser interest if you don't live in those places.
michael adams
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