A wonderful brad-bound catalog and price list, with large glossy pages. Because of the method of binding, the pages appear off-center when isolated, but appear centered when viewed in their bound state.
North Wayne Tool Co. Catalog, ca. 1937
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Rixford Catalog Leaflet, ca. October 1956
A three-hole-punched leaflet acting as an abbreviated catalog of Rixford’s wares. This may have been a supplement to an existing catalog, but the composition seems to imply that it was intended as a stand-alone document. Of interesting note is the “Mighty Atom scythe” mentioned as one of the items not depicted, as it describes it as not only being especially lightweight, but that it was available in both American and European “shanks” which we take to indicate as the tang. We have never seen a blade of American form with a European style tang, which would be quite unusual. However, as they are shown listed adjacent to “genuine Swedish scythes” of “Austrian pattern” it seems very likely that they were not the original manufacturer of these, and instead were importing them, possibly from Redtenbacher of Austria.
Seymour Manufacturing, Catalog No.23, ca. ~1931
One of the largest and most notable snath manufacturers, and the only surviving of them all to the modern day. This catalog is mostly likely circa ~1931-1935 due to the inclusion of insert prints of the Ironclad snaths which were patented in 1931, meaning that the earliest issue date was post-patent, but before they formally released catalog No.24. Printing catalogs was quite costly historically, so the norm was to produce them only when changes to the selection, pricing, and other relevant information had become so out of date as to necessitate a new issue. This catalog was likely printed prior to September 22, 1931, but issued within a few years of that date, such that the Ironclad snaths were a recent loose-leaf addition.
We apologize for the heavier watermarking on this catalog than on many previous, but due to the wide prevalence of Seymour’s snaths and past instances of people cropping our archived images for eBay listings without proper credit, we’ve had to resort to this approach to prevent commercial abuse of a free resource made available thanks to large amounts of time and money spent in their acquisition and hosting. Watermark-free images are on-hand in our personal files, and we’re happy to negotiate access to them for fellow researchers’ non-commercial use.
