Anybody else into Harrold Tools?

[LesserSon]

A little field research while passing through Pahrump NV. The suspect slipjoints at bottom and McKaig-Hatch at top for comparison. What caught my eye was the nose, which is consistently snubbed on the Forged Steel USA in-a-triangle pliers. The MH almost share this feature.

 

[d42jeep]

Here is a pair of those.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

I went through a box that I’ve been throwing miscellaneous tools in for a while and found the pliers above and a few Harrold tools. I added them to the ones I already had.
-Don

 

[d42jeep]

Found more Harrold yesterday to add to the others.
-Don

 

[LesserSon]

I visited Columbiana OH today, and stopped in at the local historic society, headquartered in the basement of a delightful log cabin museum at 10 E Park Ave. I was perusing the books there when I heard another visitor exclaim, “He’s a Harrold!” She’s looking at a group photo of men seated around a table. One is labeled O. Harrold. I turned and asked her, “Are you Harrolds?”
Well, yes she is, descended from a brother of HJH, and more directly interested in the Crescent Machine Co, but I showed her a pic of some pliers and describe the 1923 screwdriver patent. Now, she’s interested in that too.
While I’m flipping through a 1940 city directory, she asks one of the volunteers about the tool company, and he explains the site is two doors up the street! Nothing left of it; the Presbyterian church sits on the site today.