Stuart B Wilbur Handsaw?

[Modern Garage]

I have a friend who keeps dropping old **** at my door thinking I'll be interested, and I let him get away with it because one out of a hundred is something useful. Today I started cleaning up a rusty handsaw just because it has an old handle shape that piqued my interest. It's 20" long and 8tpi with crosscut filed teeth. The medallion is missing but after a lot of time with a razor blade and some lube I revealed most of the really faint plate etch. I can make out "Stuart B Wilbur" in an ornate script over a round logo a bit bigger than a quarter with the word "Extra" and some other illegible shapes (maybe a stylized 'SBW'?) inside, "Spring" and "Steel" flanking the logo at 9 and 3 o'clock, then ''Hand'' and ''Filed" below that. Under all that is "(unknown) Tempered & Ground". The handle is carved with a couple of common wheat sheaf carvings on one side only, the other side is flat.
I've searched 'Stuart B Wilbur' by itself and with 'vintage hand saw' and haven't come up with anything and the rest of the etch is pretty standard saw verbiage. I'm not sure if Stuart Wibur is a saw maker or a hardware store that sold them but I thought I'd ask if it rings a bell for anyone here.
Joe

 

[RTM]

Stuart B Wilbur is listed in 1912 in The Lakeside Annual Directory as the manager of a hardware specialty store called Belden Supply and Mnfg Co, 17 E Lake

In 1915, listed as manufacturer at 39 West Lake Street he is manager of the belden supply and manufacturing company.


He also brought property in Cicero in 1909

All Google Books results, can't pull up links right now. Quotes around his name.

 

[RTM]

Probably the same guy getting a patent for a heat distributor.

US3805765A - Heat distributor - Google Patents

A heat distributor for positioning on the burner of a gas range or the like and supporting a vessel in which food is to be cooked is disclosed as consisting of a metal disc having a downturned annular rim thereabout and a plurality of upstanding, spaced parallel flanges arranged in a...

patents.google.com

His middle name may have been Belden, based on this marriage info.



Also possibly an homage to his mother, and thus the company name. But Beldena as the sister’s name, a little odd to me.

 

[jabberwoki]

Where's the pic?

 

[Modern Garage]

I wish I could get a good picture. The etch is so faint that a photo just looks like a generic handsaw. The handle sorta' does too. I guess lacking any evidence to the contrary I'm going to say it IS a generic saw labeled for Mr. Wilbur's hardware company, manufacturer unknown.
I have a 19th century plane labeled for a Milwaukee hardware store here. The concept seemed odd to me at first but then I just thought of it like a company having sweatshirts made with the corporate logo on them or Sears re-branding Atlas machine tools. Just on a smaller scale.
RTM, thanks for the info. Ironically, Maquoketa IA is just down the river from me. Probably a day or two by water, quicker by highway.
Joe

 

[RTM]

pic of the handle, with the full handle a nut locations visible might give clues as to who made it.