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Millers Falls-made eight inch sweep brace with Rose patented chuck and other features. 
 

The pad is made from lignum vitae; the wrist handle is rosewood:

B&D-102 Price: $65.00 plus shipping    Even though there are no legible markings left on the frame of this Millers Falls brace, three of the main elements of its structure had patents in force: Clemens Rose for the chuck, William McCoy for the wrist handle, and Samuel Sawyer for the head. According to Randy Roeder's study of the products of the Millers Falls Company, Millers Falls gave up the marketing of the Rose patent brace by 1878, about the time that its patent ran out, leaving the Sawyer and McCoy patents still in force.    This brace has a heavily patinated frame, but it is fully functional and undamaged. The chuck holds the shank of a big Russell Jennings auger bit very securely a nd very stright, even though one has to unscrew the shell (backwards, which takes getting used to) quite a ways to slide the tapered square shank of the bit into place.   See RoseChuck030.JPG for an earlier description.