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As you know I always solicit and welcome your feedback on both The News and ET.com. We have just completed our first-ever online ET.com survey of the membership and even though folks don’t like to fill them out and The News is still relatively new- we got a good response. And I thought you might want to see what you as a group said. I intend to use this feedback as I develop the site’s content and postings, at least for this next quarter. Thanks again for taking the time to help! SK (more…)

Did you see this Marbles 1910 Trade Catalog that sold on eBay recently? It sold for $468 and was only 13 pages.

I’ll do a post on MSA Toenails as a Feature Toenail soon, but we know they did list toenails in the 1905, 1906, 1907 and their 1908/09 editions. Don’t know if this edition that sold on eBay had toenails or not.

You do know that Marbles never made toenails. The toenails were made on contract by Case Brothers, but I don’t want to steal my own thunder by going any further into toenails, as this post was just about this valuable catalog.

Mr. Larry Gagner of Gladstone, MI helped me when I first started to try to get my arms around Marbles catalog and listings of toenails. Larry wrote a good article on Marbles Safety Axe that was published in Michigan Traveler in May, 1996 and possible for other pubs as well.

Old cutlery company catalogs offer a wealth of information and can help us learn tidbits about their toenails. Grab them when you can. If you run across any you think I might be interested in please let me know.

If you remind me one day I’ll do a Page on all the catalogs from the old cutlery companies that do list toenails- that way you can let me know of ones I am not aware of so we can compile a complete for future reference.