Wiktor has kindly alerted me to a new article by Geoffrey Tweedale on the EAIA website http://eaiainfo.org/2014/08/11/the-...journals-by-geoffrey-tweedale-2/#comment-1008 Also on Wiktor's finetools website. http://www.wkfinetools.com/hUK/z-UKReading-contemp/theIronmonger/theIronmonger-01.asp Excellent reading, and a new ( to me anyway ) avenue of research on tool making firms. I suspect that any saw making firm worth their salt, would be announcing themselves to the trade in such journals... pity is they are not digitized (yet) Ray
Ray, Thanks for visiting the article and posting a comment. Also thank you for posting this info here. I remembered that I have a few pages of Ironmonger - do not remember where I got them from or who is the owner. Here is what I have and hope it will give all of you a small example of type of advertising in that magazine. The pages are dated June 4, 1898. Best, Wiktor