Vintage Spear and Jackson saw with 8" blade, 20 teeth to the inch as counted to the best of my abiliyt
The blade secured with 3 screws.
The logo is leapfrog, marked Warranted Cast Steel, Sheffield, Patented Machine Ground.
Aesthetically appealing, with the optimistic statement NON BREAK HANDLE and patent No 401,274 on a disc.
Age may be prewar. Has a user made protective wooden sleeve.
Due to the faults mentioned in the "condition" I feel this is one for the collector rather than the user.
Mermaid was the top quality, followed by Leapfrog, according to this blog post:
http://www.woodworkforums.com/f152/spear-jackson-questions-173444
The history of S & J trademarks is hard to find so I can't be sure of age.
Overall length 32 cm weight 416g
UK post £2.95 EU / World 1 / World 2 post £10.90 £16.30 £17.55