Thanks for the link, Ben. The illustrations are exquisite!
I'm curious how you (and/or the current management at Lowell Wrench Company, with no other catalogs on their website, and less detailed historical information on their "About" page than the
GJ Lowell thread and the
Alloy Artifacts Lowell page) have determined that it's the "first" catalog.
In a related observation, I noticed that the catalog has no publishing, copyright, or other date that I can see, and that the current management at Lowell Wrench Company have not attempted to date it on their website, merely parroting your "first" claim (or perhaps you are parroting them).
I recall that when you first introduced your acquisition of this catalog on the 'Antique Ratchet' thread, you implied a date range...
..., but now that I see the catalog, that can't be possible. It had to have been published later than 1903, given the reference on page 4 to the "1903 Pattern" (referring to the second Sinclair patent (743,942)) ratchet, and also later than 1908, which is when Lowell introduced the "Multo" kit shown on page 9.
Further research of the contents that I am not familiar with off the top of my head might yield an even finer idea of the publication date, but suffice it to say that I am skeptical of "first" for a company that started in 1869.
