Old School Tool Catalog Art

[jsackin]

Here are some catalog covers from our private collection.

Jori
http://store.harryepstein.com

 

[jsackin]

More catalogs from the collection.
The tool set with no name on it is the back of the snap-on catalog.

 

[jsackin]

These are the last two. Thanks for looking.

Jori
http://store.harryepstein.com

 

[hofferwood]

How about this guy.
I have the impact also.
Chuck

 

[old salvage]

Thank you for posting all these.

 

[Flash21]

Thanks for sharing jsackin...very, very nice. Makes me miss all of these quality tool companies, I just want to go back 40 or 50 years and buy one of everything.

 

[jsackin]

I love the old tool catalog style. Lots of line art and cartoons.

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

Someone MUST post the WWII era Plomb Nekkid Lady! Without her inspiration we would have been a Japanese colony by 1943!

 

[hofferwood]

Someone MUST post the WWII era Plomb Nekkid Lady! Without her inspiration we would have been a Japanese colony by 1943!

Not nekkid, and a repro, but still cool!
Chuck

 

[loj]

Quality manufacturing and design.

Beautiful stuff. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

So many common objects and commercial publications were done so well in the '40's and '50's...
How did it all happen so well?? Publications put out by grubby forging plants, meant for Joe Lugwrench at the Texaco station in East Nowhere, and they are quite beautiful.

 

[csp]

I have a big box of catalogs/manuals/publications from the '40s and 50s at home that I bought at an auction for $5 a few years ago. They are all in excellent condition. Gonna have to see if any of them are tool catalogs as I haven't looked through all of them yet.

 

[Monte]

cool !!!!!! please post more !!!!!!!

 

[jsackin]

Here are some more ads and back covers.

 

[jsackin]

Check out the unfortunate name on the snap on tool.

 

[Monte]

****-O-Scope ???? wtf

 

[Mickey O]

Nice. You ever think of moving your store closer to me? I think it would be a brilliant idea, I know I'd like it (I would require a personal permanent stool at the counter).

 

[Tool Pants]

Here is a 1932 Craftsman I have. Can't get more Art Deco then that cover.