C. DREW manila rope marlin spike

From C. DREW & Co. catalogue No. 34: image No. 85

 

Because of changes in manufacturing processes over the decades, we have arranged information about these tools on pages according to manufacturing criteria:

• Page 1: Full Polished
• Page 2: Polished Three-Quarters of Length
• Page 3: Tapers polished
• Page 4: Japanned, polished points

References:

Listings of Manila Rope marlin spikes are from:

• C. DREW catalogues No. 34 & 36, both published in the 1920s
• C. DREW catalogue No. 37, 1947
• C. DREW "Marine Tools" catalogue, March 1, 1953.
• C. DREW catalogue No. 59, January 15, 1959
• C. DREW "Marine Tools" catalogue, December 1, 1959
• C. DREW "Marine Tools" catalogue, December 1, 1961
• C. DREW catalogue No. 63, January 1, 1963
• C. DREW catalogue, June 1968

Marlin Spikes (manila rope):

Used for splicing rope. Referred to variously as "Marlin Spikes" or "Manila Rope Marlin Spikes" in C. DREW catalogues.

Caveat:

It is assumed that when tools have corresponding descriptions in different C. DREW catalogues, that they will also have the same dimensions and weights. This assumption may not always be correct.

"The 11-inch and 15-inch sizes will be discontinued when present large stock is exhausted." (per catalogue No. 36)

"The working, or pointed end of the manila rope spike is not flattened because of the relative ease required to lay open manila, as opposed to wire rope." (per catalogue: June 1968)