Vintage Hugh Halligan Forcible Entry Bar
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:50950220 | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
| Type: Halligan Bar |
For your consideration is an original Halligan Bar. This is the real deal and not some cheap knockoff. This tool was invented by Deputy Chief Hugh A. Halligan of the NYFD back in the 1940’s. The original Halligan tool was made of cross-drop forged from one piece ofNo. 4140 (high carbon content) steel. This was a great improvement in strength and weight over its predecessors, The Claw and Kelly tool. Spacing in between the tines of the fork allows for a gas valve to... be shut off. And stamped into the forks of the toolwhich read HALLIGAN on the top and AM+DG on the bottom . Chief Halligan was a very religious man and it is widely believed the letters stood for the Latin phrase, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam or “for the greater glory of god”. This phrase was a favorite of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the society of Jesus. Pope John Paul II routinely used it in his writings. He would print AMGD in the top left of every page he wrote. The + sign is widely believe to represent a cross. As you can see in one of the photos of the bar and on the point it readsforged one piece 4140 steel. There are not many of these left out there for sale and the ones that are out there are in private collections or museums.
