Vintage decal/sticker thread

[gregb6718]

I ran across this thread today after doing some tidying in the garage. Remembered seeing this box in all the stuff I went through. Unfortunately no drill inside.

 

[ooba tooba]

I love the art design from much of the period that these vintage tools cover. Really striking and clever. And lots of it!

I agree. You can see some traces of the Victorian Age late 1800s with fancy outlines and gold glitter moving through the 10s and 20s getting to the great Art Deco style graphics. Really cool.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Things have definately gone downhill in the style department. Here's a few more...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'm up to my D's today..., including a couple of real dandies, (the "Dandee" Kit is stamped on a leatherette DOE wrench set pouch from Howard Zink, the vintage aftermarket top and seat cover company; the "Dandy" is on a leather-clad fiberboard wrench set case from Bog), what's left of a DASCO (Damascus Steel Products Corp) label on a sliding steel lid for a little socket wrench set contract made by Hinsdale, one of my only foil decals (a little late for my typical collecting tastes) from Dayton, and a dog-gone good Duro. See Sticky Index or Search for more.

 

[ooba tooba]

I'm up to my D's today..., including a couple of real dandies, (the "Dandee" Kit is stamped on a leatherette DOE wrench set pouch from Howard Zink, the vintage aftermarket top and seat cover company; the "Dandy" is on a leather-clad fiberboard wrench set case from Bog), what's left of a DASCO (Damascus Steel Products Corp) label on a sliding steel lid for a little socket wrench set contract made by Hinsdale, one of my only foil decals (a little late for my typical collecting tastes) from Dayton, and a dog-gone good Duro. See Sticky Index or Search for more.

The dog looks like he stepped out of a Betty Boop animated short to be their mascot.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The dog looks like he stepped out of a Betty Boop animated short to be their mascot.

Indeed. They adopted that perky little feller sometime between the end of the war and 1951.

 

[ooba tooba]

I just picked this up. I didn’t know they put this style decal on the little socket cases. Is it unusual? Mid late 30s maybe...

 

[Oldtuleguy]

The midget one is more common in my experience

 

[bmwrd0]

Some more






The ones I have posted are just those with already good shots. I have a bunch more to take better pics of the labels.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Keep em coming! Here's some wards logos

 

[d42jeep]

In keeping with the Wards theme.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Love that Duro scoll, Beemer, mainly because it's so unusual/atypical for the Duro decals we are used to seeing more commonly.

E'sing my way into my letter-of-the-day posting with an Eastern Machine Screw socket set decal (my deductive research theory is the mysterious "H & G" set name is the first letters of the last names of the vice presidents and patent holders) on a wooden box lid (see Pics 1 & 2), an Edison (yes, that Edison, the inventions were all commerce-driven...) decal on the lid of a steel box (see Pic 3), and some labels from one of my favorite brand names, the EZY-OUT, by Cleveland Twist Drill Company (see Pic 4), so simple, and yet so brilliantly self-descriptive that it kleenexed its way into nationwide colloquial vernacular as a word we use for any and all screw extractors no matter who they were made by.

 

[d42jeep]

EZY-OUT. Cool name but I absolutely hate the tools! They are designed to make a bad situation worse.
Back to the stickers.
-Don

 

[snapmom]

From about 26-27

 

[snapmom]

some more, left, about 1938, about 1923, about 1930

 

[Private Lugnutz]

EZY-OUT. Cool name but I absolutely hate the tools! They are designed to make a bad situation worse.

Haha. So you've broken more than one off in a stuck bolt, huh?

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Some penens related

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Some alphabet soup (from F through K) from the Lugzsonian today. OTG already posted a Firestone metal badge, so I won't be redundant, but I didn't see anyone post a Firestone embossing yet. (We are including embossings, right?) Midget box. OTG also already posted a few Fleet Quality Tools decals, but here's a Fleet Alloy Tools variant on a very recently acquired hip roof carry box. A rare and very early Gray decal on the lid of a 1/2-inch drive spinner set steel box. Unaiu already posted a nice yellow Hinsdale decal, but here's an embossing on the lid of a 3/8-inch drive set steel box. And finally, a King Pressed Steel from the 20's.

 

[d42jeep]

Since I went through my Dunlap tools recently, here are a few more of their tool markings.
-Don

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Great stickers guys. Lugz I would not mind seeing some duplicates. Yours may be in better shape or have some subtle differences.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Lugz I would not mind seeing some duplicates. Yours may be in better shape or have some subtle differences.

Oh, I wouldn't hesitate to post a dupe if it had a subtle difference. In the case of something like our metal Firestone badges, though, one would be hard-pressed to identify yours vs mine in a blind test they are so identical in condition.

 

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This one just came in the mail today.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Sweet. At least they did not spray bomb the decal.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

More stickers

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I've got some M&M's and a few more M's for today...

You can't get much simpler or plainer than the labeling on the cardboard "MAC" sockets box (see Pic 1), but it's early, it's still the only one I have ever seen, and it's the only socket wrenches I keep under lock and key in the fireproof cabinet.

Miller (see Pic 2) is my favorite maker, hands down, from the Roaring 20's.

The Mossberg Cycle Tire Irons marking (see Pic 3) is painted on an impregnated canvas bag. There's a set of three tire irons inside. It is special in its own right. But if you've never seen it before, don't miss the little red symbol to the left of the "C" in cycle. The top of the Mossberg salesman board (see Pic 4). And the ink-stamp and one of the decals from my Mossberg No. 14 set (see Pics 5 & 6).

And lastly, my skullduggeried MUSTANG decal (see Pic 7).

 

[c1504]

I haven’t seen this Kennedy logo yet. The second one is a vintage fire extinguisher.

 

[ooba tooba]

The little Snap On box cleaned up pretty nice revealing more of the decal

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The little Snap On box cleaned up pretty nice revealing more of the decal

Yeah it did.

The second one is a vintage fire extinguisher.

Nice! I was going to stick to tools, but if we're venturing into automotive paraphernalia territory..., I will break my alphabetic rhythm to post another vintage fire extinguisher decal, one of my favorites. Although it has a 60's look to me, it's actually from 1948!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'm up to my N's today, which brings me to an interesting sidebar. I have five New Britain Empire sockets sets, including three 1/4-inch drive, a 3/8-inch drive, and a 1/2-inch drive NONE BETER, all from the same era (late 30's into 40's), and none of them had a surviving decal. I wonder if that was just circumstantial or production quality?

The New Britain salesman cabinet for drill bits is where I keep my ignition wrench sets collection. The other decal (see Pic 3) is reproduction. If you scroll up and look at the King Pressed Steel & Mfg Co decal (edit: post #58), you'll see it has the same address as the Newton Pressed Steel & Mfg Co, which is nowadays located in Newton, Mass. They also had the same officers. You'll see a third Boston area company they made tools for called Service Engineering and Manufacturing when I get to the S's.

 

[d42jeep]

Mine certainly isn’t pristine but at least it’s still there. Here are some others as well. The S-K decals are prewar.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Mine certainly isn’t pristine but at least it’s still there.

Yeah, in my experience, 60% intact for any NB decal is doing well!

 

[d42jeep]

This one arrived from eBay yesterday. Certainly not pristine but there are barely traces on my other NB boxes.
-Don

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Only two O's to post, but oh man, the Oman is still the onliest set I have ever seen, with sockets marked like no other sockets I have ever seen, and the Onli-1 is still one of the only two compete sets I have ever seen, and still the most favorite socket set in my collection. More on those here and here.

 

[d42jeep]

Lugz, those are very cool.
How about some earlier Craftsman and maybe one Crown?
-Don

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Some more plomb/proto

 

[bmwrd0]

A few more:

 

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Here's a few Craftsman labels

And a few Bonney

 

[Username already in use]

And a few more I dug out.
Tomahawk

Indestro

MAC

Bridgeport

Huot

Milwaukee

 

[Username already in use]

Some Wards/Powr-Kraft

From some midget wrench sets

And some S-K

 

[d42jeep]

Nice ones!
-Don