Old Sears Catalogs

[JazzBlueRT]

I found these PDF scans of old Sears catalogs from the 1930's to the 1970's

http://www.blackburntools.com/articles/rose-tools-catalog-archives/sears/index.html

Some really cool stuff in here and most likely an invaluable resource for those restoring some of the older Craftsman tools. I was surprised to find the Companion tool line goes way back, I thought it was a 1990's thing.

 

[Richard Cranium]

thanks for posting. I see a lot of questions of what year some thing was sold, This should help. Rich

 

[The Cobbler]

nice!

 

[jakemac]

This page was originally kept on Rose's website. When that site was closed a few years ago, Blackburn graciously offered to host the catalogs to keep them available online.

 

[dbabicky]

All of our old Sears catalogs were used in the outhouse !!

 

[ecotec]

You have to go back to 1957 in these catalogs to see the Craftsman version of my Powr-Kraft stack...

The main difference being I have 3 small drawers on the upper left side of my top box...

Am I way off base in thinking my stack is from the late 1960's?

 

[dwasifar]

The site's down. You guys killed it.

EDIT: back up now.

 

[Corndoggeh]

Always interesting to see, I know my University is focusing a lot of attention of digitally scanning and archiving all the millions of books in all the libraries just for this purpose, old catalogs included, I've also seen scanning of books from the 1800's as well.

That DRIVER table thing would be awesome to see in person, never seen anything like that.... Thats one way to get the most out of a motor since that would have been the most expensive part.

 

[jeffmoss26]

Still wish I could find catalogs from the late 80s-early 90s to relive some childhood memories!

 

[cdeer001]

Still wish I could find catalogs from the late 80s-early 90s to relive some childhood memories!

I miss those catalogs too. I loved seeing their tool sets getting bigger and bigger each year.

 

[bczygan]

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Originally Posted by jeffmoss26 View Post
Still wish I could find catalogs from the late 80s-early 90s to relive some childhood memories!

I miss those catalogs too. I loved seeing their tool sets getting bigger and bigger each year.

I thought he was talking about the womens undergarments section...