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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the norm was to produce them only when changes to the selection, pricing, and other relevant information had become so out of date as to necessitate a new issue.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.