Smith & Hemenway/ S. & H.

This story took me on a wild ride and several hours of web-searching and late last night of all places it led me to the AA web site sigh...I should have known better and started there in the first place, oh well live and learn as they say!

The following tool is not only vintage but more like antique being at least 100 years old. Smith & Hemenway got there start back in 1898 operating as a manufacturer and importer of hardware items, with offices in New York along with their factory in New Jersey. I will leave a few very nice links for the complete story for you too enjoy reading along with a few special notes.

Special Notes: "Tools coming from S&H Co. were frequently marked with their trademark red devil , either with or without the company name or "S&H" initials." ; from the AA web-site. It should be noted that my example only has the following S. & H. Co. 160 x 5/8

IN 1926 S&H was sold to the Crescent Tool Co.; be sure and look at the picture from the AA web-site and you can see some resemblance with the letters and numbers with both tools in question.

One last note the two men fell into a dispute back in 1925 and Smith bought out the shares of Hemenway be sure and see the link for more information.

Pictures and links just another company to look out for in your hunting.

http://alloy-artifacts.org/smith-hemenway.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_Hemenway

http://trowelcollector.blogspot.com/2014/10/red-devil-inc.html

http://www.trademarkia.com/map/little-red-devil-pliers-are-your-fingers-of-steel-71157047.htm

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0CE2DE103AEF3ABC4151DFBF66838E639EDE&legacy=true

http://alloy-artifacts.org/Photos/tools/crescent_489_punch_taper_07_octagon_f_cropped_inset2.jpg

Thanks for doing this one Woody! This is one company I would have never given any thought to, but I actually have quite a few of their products in my garage.

re: Tools coming from S & H. Co. were frequently marked with their trademark Red Devil, either with or without the company name or "S. & H." initials."





see also: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=374811

The period ads you've posted in another GJ thread dedicated to S&H have been very useful in ensuing discussions, 4.c. See link to that thread in Sticky Index.

thanks. as is the case here, I just discovered I've got "Smith & Hemenway" and "Red Devil" in two different places in my files.

see also: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=374811

(* that 1966 catalog I posted page #1 of in the other thread needs to be scanned. photos just are not catching the details in the images. *)