Help identifying this Kennedy toolbox

[Buddy94]

It’s een at my Dads house since the late 60’s. My granddad used it prior to that so maybe early 60’s or before.
No markings on it anywhere but the name.
Thoughts?

 

[d42jeep]

Probably a pre 1950 520 box. The Kennedy flyer below is from April 1940 and the box is similar to yours but they didn’t change for years until they went to steel handles around 1950 or so.
-Don

 

[RTM]

Post 1941, that’s when the square pulls came out in the catalogs

 

[slowtwitch73]

They've gotten some mileage out of those pulls.

 

[four.cycle]

Kennedy / Kennedy Mfg. Co., LLC, 1260 Industrial Dr., Van Wert, OH 45891 / https://buykennedy.com/ / est. 1911 acquired by Cornwell 2016 / tool storage systems /

Please be sure to also check International Tool Catalog Library - this is all the material I have showing "Kennedy" at the present:


1925 Dunham Carrigan & Hayden Co. catalog pp 127 Kennedy

1926 Vonnegut Hardware Co. catalog pp 121 Kennedy

1926 Vonnegut Hardware Co. catalog pp 122 Kennedy

1927 Belknap Hardware Co. catalog pp 138 Kennedy Burhke

1927 Belknap Hardware Co. catalog pp 137 Kennedy

1939 Van Camp Hardware & Iron Co. catalog pp 75 Kennedy

1939 Van Camp Hardware & Iron Co. catalog pp 76 Kennedy Stanley

 

[four.cycle]

1940 Beals McCarthy & Rogers Inc. catalog pp C215 Kennedy

1940 Belknap Hardware Co. catalog pp 156 Kennedy

I just took a quick look and there at least a dozen items available at International Tool Catalog Library for Kennedy

If you use the "search" function above, and search "Kennedy" by thread title, there are no fewer than 18 pages of search results.

 

[slowtwitch73]

I'll take 20 of the General Purpose boxes please.

 

[Buddy94]

Wow, you guys are great. Way more info than I expected. I'm sure my great grandpa got a lot of use out of this. He was an appliance repairman in Bluefield West Virginia back in that time period.

I'm trying to figure out whether to sell it or just keep it as a family heirloom so to speak out in the garage. From what I can tell they aren't worth big money unless you guys tell me otherwise.

 

[RTM]

You won't be retiring to Aruba with the proceeds from selling it, at least not around here. I got both of my square top boxes for under $50. One has a decent handle, one has no handle.

But they are still great users.

 

[bmwrd0]

I inherited the same model, square corners and leather grip, from my grandfather who was a machinist in the '30s and '40s. Not any value in it, other than family attachment. I have a couple of other Kennedys that I have picked up over the years, none for more than a couple bucks.

 

[four.cycle]

1916 Chas. E. Miller catalog Kennedy ad pp 24

Kennedy at International Tool Catalog Library

 

[TimmoTool]

Does anybody have a Print Ad dating the Kennedy Kit 600 series Tackleboxes?