Hardware & Tools, All From Merchants of Quality Goods • 1 • 2 •
Trade Card BOGMAN & VINAL, Dealers in Builders' Hardware, Carpenter's Tools, Nails, Lead, Zinc, Sash Weights, &c. No. 7 Dock Square, Boston. c1875. Nice, clean letterpress trade card incorporating no less than 3 fonts and 5 font sizes. For the time period, a very restrained design.
Photograph: Cabinet Card A WELL APPOINTED HARDWARE STORE. c1910. Cabinet Card. . Push drills, handsaws, braces, hammers, chisels, folding rulers and every type of hardware the enterprising workman needed, carefully stored in bins. The foot prints on the floor attest to the rough n ready work atmosphere.
Photograph: Cabinet Card ATKINS SAW COMPANY WINDOW DISPLAY. Cabinet Card. Every now and then something comes your way that makes the collector lights go haywire. Somewhere, somewhen, someone took this picture of an Atkins window display. It appears that all the major product lines are included here, from handsaws, to circular saws to saw sharpening & setting equipment, even the tools of the saw doctor. And an absolutely great cardboard cutout of an Atkins Sawyer at work. It's true what they say... They don't make them like they used to!.
Photograph: Cabinet Card HARDWARE STORE INTERIOR. c1890. Cabinet Card. Quite obviously the proprietor of this hardware store pushed Gypsine brand paint over and above all others.
Trade Card MAY & CO. EST 1797. HARDWARE, TOOLS AND METALS. No. 1, Broad Street, Cor. State Street, Boston. Quite literally, the A to Z of hardware stores.
Advertisement: Newspaper HARDWARE & CUTLERY. The Statesman. New York. Tuesday, August 1, 1826. Vol. V - No. 60. " 150 casks & cases Birmingham and Sheffield Hardware, comprising a very general and complete assortment of choice and scarce articles in the line, and particularly adapted for the southern and western trade - now landing, from ships Courier, Ann, Hercules and Hector, from Liverpool, for sale by the package, or from the shelves, on accommodating terms, for cash or approved credit, by Irving, Smith & Hyslop, 142 Pearl St."
Advertisement: Newspaper Andrew Eliot & Co. Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, PA 1818. "Have received 25 packages, comprising Chissels (sic), Edge Tools, Locks, Files, Wood Screws, Penknives, Pocket Books, Cast Butt Hinges... and English Shovels."
I guess that there was a shortage of American made shovels in 1818?
Promotional Mirror OVB - H.S.& B. Co. aka Over Best Made, The Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett Company. One of the larger wholesale and retail merchants of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. HSB must have felt that it was imperative for the working man or woman to have a personal mirror with which to check their coiffures.
