DESCRIPTION:
Books- 9 (Nine) Catalogs on Tools and Hardware: large catalogs featuring hardware, tools, and some finished goods. Companies include: Bostwick-Braun Hardware Co.; Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co.; Wm. Frazer Jr.; Watkins-Cottrell Company; Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Co.; Buhl Sons Co.; Lyon Brothers Inc.; and Phoenix Chair Company. Also included is a 1918 Donnelley "Red Book" business directory and buyer's guide.
CONDITION:
all but one of the catalogs are hardcover. All show age and use. The Phoenix Chair Co. catalog was repurposed into a scrapbook for poems clipped from magazines and newspapers around the turn of the last century. These are great references for tool collectors and students of material culture.
ESTIMATE:
$150
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$250
PRICE SOLD:
$25