Vintage decal/sticker thread

[Private Lugnutz]

Especially the Hy-Bar and that particular Indestro!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'm going to mind my P's and Q, singular, today.

Other than the fact that they have a cool *** motto ("Jewels of Tools") and sent their spade drill attachments to customers in fitted steel case mailers, I know nothing about B. & W. Precision Products (see Pics 2, 3, 4, & 5)! Technically, I suppose that should've went with the B's, and the Precision-Bilt (see Pic 6) with the S's, or perhaps the N's with the rest of its New Britain mates, and the Quick-Set reamer set box (see Pic 7) with the C's. Say La V. The Palmeter socket set (see Pic 1) is right where it belongs, alphabetically, and physically, under lock and key in the 'DO NOT EVER SELL, YOU DUMMY!' cabinet.

 

[ooba tooba]

Fantastic! Really an amazing collection you have! Browsing around I found this outfit I haven’t heard of. Style looks pure space age early 60s like The Jetsons or Marantz ads I’ve seen.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Thank you, sir.

A few of us have wartime Simonsen toolboxes. They were one of two main suppliers (the other being the more well-known Kennedy) of a large hip roof style carry box with enclosed drawers inside cantilevered lids that the USN and the USAAF favored. They did not have that decal, which is very space age-y. It has a pre-1963 postal code. Factory was located in Humboldt Park (60651). Hence the "51" (pre-zip) postal code.

EDIT: Here's a logo on a KW-era toolbox handle.

 

[ooba tooba]

Thank you, sir.

A few of us have wartime Simonsen toolboxes. They were one of two main suppliers (the other being the more well-known Kennedy) of a large hip roof style carry box with enclosed drawers inside cantilevered lids that the USN and the USAAF favored. They did not have that decal, which is very space age-y. It has a pre-1963 postal code. Factory was located in Humboldt Park (60651). Hence the "51" (pre-zip) postal code.

EDIT: Here's a logo on a KW-era toolbox.

Here’s a pic of the box I screenshot the label from. It’s on that one site...

 

[d42jeep]

I posted this decal upthread taken from a Simonsen box I spotted at the Tahoe flea last summer. I found the box interesting but not interesting enough to pay the seller’s exorbitant price.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Here’s a pic of the box I screenshot the label from. It’s on that one site...

Hmm. That is a neat hybrid hip roof/machinists configuration I have never seen before. Guessing the lids flip open, no cantilevers, with a main compartment on top of the two pull out drawers.

EDIT: I found it. I was right, but the top "compartment" is actually a removable tray. Even neater.

 

[Username already in use]

Nice ones!
-Don

Especially the Hy-Bar and that particular Indestro!

Thanks guys!

I'm realizing that I don't really have a ton of things with labels/decals on them. Certainly not as many as Lugz and Don, but I did find a couple more last night.

United Motors label from a small parts box that I have

And this P&C tag from a 3/8" drive box

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Great stuff! Here are some snap on logos

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Quality over quantity! I say, Unaiu. It's an interesting thought, though. In terms of toolboxes, cases, or pouches, I am probably 80/20 with/without decals. There are some notable brands I could use some big badged or decaled boxes for. Herbrand, for example. Also Williams. And Vlchek (which I have never seen). Those collections are in generic boxes or totes. (I would've said Cornwell, most prominently, but you know where those are headed, eventually! )

The roadster profile on that United Motors decal is cool.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

vlchek is a tough one

 

[Private Lugnutz]

vlchek is a tough one

For sure. The socket drive tools are rare enough, due to limited production, finding a box would be a real coup. They made plenty of kits for automobiles, also the US Army in the Interwar years, which came in roll-ups and pouches, but I have never seen one of those, either. The only thing I have that isn't a tool itself with the Vlchek name on it is a DOE wrench set holder.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

R you rrrrready to rrrrrrrumblllllllllllllllllle?

The "Ray" (Packer Auto Specialty Company, embossed socket set)(see Pic 1), R.T.E.C. (formerly and for many years but no longer mysterious, midget socket set lid)(see Pic 4), and Russell Jennings (that's on a complete set in a triple-decker wooden box)(see Pics 5 & 6) are self-explanatory.

Pic 2, which reads, Use Plenty of Lard Oil in Starting and Cutting under that figure of a die stock, are instructions for using it pasted under the lid. If there was a decal on top of the lid, which I suspect, it's long gone. Pic 3 is the set number. Good ol' No. 1. The tools inside make a complete set. And it's a Reed.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Some bogs

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Craftsman

 

[Username already in use]

Some bogs

Those Bog labels are dandy indeed!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Thanks UN. Here are some Keystones

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Glad the thread got bumped. I just realized I forgot to post today! I'm up to my S's.

 

[ooba tooba]

@ Oldtuleguy; what did these 2 come attached to?

 

[Oldtuleguy]

The brass tag is on a 1930 3/4 drive socket set, the decal is on a super service set. Here's a few more

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Only one each ...T, U, V...

 

[d42jeep]

A variety of S-K postwar riveted on plates. As they get newer they are less imaginative.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

More S-K plates.
-Don

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Lugz that vlchek wrench holder is sweet. Great sk plates don. The older ones were certainly more stylish.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Here's some blackhawk

 

[c1504]

That name tag is so cool!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

That one is pretty neat. Couple of wards, a speedmaster and a powrkraft

 

[bmwrd0]

A few more from around the shop

 

[Private Lugnutz]

A few more from around the shop

Nice Triplett box, Beemer. What's in it? A multimeter?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Getting close to the end of the line of my alphabetic posting with the Dubya entries today...

The early brass badges and and the Western Auto decal are self-explanatory. That tap and die decal (Wiley & Russell)(see Pic 4) is hard to read. And I am breaking my redundancy rule on the Williams midget set decal for one reason only: it's the only decal I have from any mfgr on any set from any era that is perfect. It's absolutely free of any nick, scratch, defect or blemish. Except for that photo, it never sees the light of day, staying in that cardboard box.

 

[bmwrd0]

Nice Triplett box, Beemer. What's in it? A multimeter?

A panel mount milliamp gauge. I haven't found a use for it yet though, so it sits on my bench.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Some Hinsdale, walden

 

[ooba tooba]

Some rare birds in this thread! Here’s a nice Craftsman example

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Looks like a long c heritage hybrid!

 

[ooba tooba]

Looks like a long c heritage hybrid!

It’s attached to a drill press

 

[Cruzan80]

Ooba is it a decal or metal plate? Seen the plates, not a decal like that, iirc.

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[danandmelrod]

Hi Ooba,

Great thread you got going. Thank you all for sharing your cool pics. I saw this tool for sale in surrounding area and thought it would be appropriate to share here.
-Dan

 

[ooba tooba]

Ooba is it a decal or metal plate? Seen the plates, not a decal like that, iirc.

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It is a metal plate/tag, sorry.

 

[ooba tooba]

Hi Ooba,

Great thread you got going. Thank you all for sharing your cool pics. I saw this tool for sale in surrounding area and thought it would be appropriate to share here.
-Dan

Yeah these posters have schooled me on decals. I visit this thread daily just to see what’s been posted. That’s a great example! I can already tell that would clean up very nice with most of that decal intact! Thanks for adding one!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

In retrospect, I prolly shoulda saved the Dandee kit by Howard Zink Corp in post #44 page 3 for a coup de grace Z post, but since I don't have any tools with Y or Z names, here are the only and Xactly two decals I have left to post, and they are both Xcellent xamples.

The first decal is a household name.

If you're not familiar with the second decal, which is hard to read due to the scraping of those detachable DOE wrench heads I left in the foreground of the photo against the lid in a closed position, the story behind Xcel multiple head wrenches is similar to Champion DeArment and Channellock. Those Xcelite nut drivers or screwdrivers in your shop were all made in Orchard Park, NY, by a company originally called Park Metalware. The Xcelite brand sold so well, they changed the name of the company. See the Index in the Sticky for more. For some sequential alphabetic closure, the prolific genius behind all the company's products was a guy named John Zilliox.