{"id":1161,"date":"2025-05-25T20:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T20:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2025-05-27T18:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:14:40","slug":"rixford-catalog-leaflet-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Rixford Catalog Leaflet, ca. October 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.

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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 … Continue reading Rixford Catalog Leaflet, ca. October 1956<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,23,74,3],"tags":[11,34,44,48,10],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-axes","category-scythes","category-period-documents","category-library","category-manual-mowing","tag-scythe","tag-axe","tag-catalog","tag-rixford","tag-american"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}