LOGOWEAR/ The Hardware Companies Kollectors Klub /NEWSLETTER/

The Hardware Companies Kollectors Klub

The Winchester * Keen Kutter * Diamond Edge Chronicles

The Official Publication of

The Hardware Companies Kollectors Klub

www.thckk.org

LOGO WEAR AND COMMEMORATIVES

NOTICE!!!!

LOGO BUTTONS AND COMMEMORATIVES ARE BEING RETIRED AND ONLY THOSE NOW IN STOCK WILL BE SOLD. WE WILL NOT BE RE-ORDERING PAST YEAR BUTTONS. NEW MEMBERS WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE A CURRENT MEMBERSHIP BUTTON.

Updated: 10 November 2008

Two New Logo Items Available

Klub Logo Tee Shirt

Excellent quality cotton tee w/ Klub logo. $ 17.00 (postage extra)

Klub Logo Mouse Pad

$15.00 (postage extra)

( For these two items ( mousepad or tee shirt) only, contact Rilla Simmons, 40706 E. 144th St, Richmond, MO 64085)

Membership and Annual Meet Buttons

Klub Membership Button featuring the three logos which represent the primary focus of The Hardware Companies Kollectors Klub, Keen Kutter, Winchester and Diamond Edge.

Klub Button for the 1996 Meet featuring the famous Keen Kutter bar and wedge logo introduced by the Simmons Hardware Company for their top selling product line at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.

Klub Button for the 1997 Meet featuring the Diamond Edge logo used by Shapleigh Hardware Company with some modifications from before the turn of the century.

Klub Button for 1998 Meet featuring the "The Winchester Store" logo, used by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company during the years after World War I, Company, until about the mid 1930's.

Klub Button for the 1999 Meet featuring the " Celebrated Shield of Quality" logo used by Simmons Hardware in their early days and up until around 1904

Special Klub Over sized Button for the 1999 Meet featuring the bronze bust of the founder of Simmons Hardware Company, Edward Campbell Simmons, "The Keen Kutter Man". This bust sold at a Simmons and Company Auction in January, 1999 for $16,000.00. It was sculpted by Henry Hering around 1923.

Klub Button for the 1st Fall Meet featuring the "Our Very Best" logo used by Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett and Company

Klub Button for the 2000 Spring Meet featuring a gold Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Company Diamond Edge watch fob.

Klub Button for the 2000 Fall Meet featuring the Blue Grass logo for Belknap Hardware Co, Louisville, KY

Klub Button for the Spring 2001 Meet featuring a Winchester padlock.

Van Camp Hardware (Indianapolis, IND) Logo for the Fall 2001 Meet Klub Button

Klub button for March 2002 Meet featured E.C. Simmons diecut advertising for Liberty Lanterns

This over-sized button features THCKK "Hardware Store" logo.

The 2003 button is the Simmons Hardware Company "SH Co" logo from the early days of the company.

· Some Past-Annual Meet Buttons are available to new members and members who didn’t get to attend, while supplies last. We are out of 2nd Meet (DE-Mar 1997) and 4th Meet ( KK-Mar 99). Sometimes members want an extra to wear and one to keep with their collection, or a spouse wants one. They are $5.00 each. These are being retired and will only be sold while stock is available.

Also we still have some of the earlier Commemoratives and Give-Aways left.

These are oversized custom designed regulation Postcards, were issued in 1998, for the Annual Meet. They feature the photos of E.C. Simmons, Oliver F. Winchester and A.F. Shapleigh, founders of these Merchantile empires and the main factories ( from old letterheads) of the Companies themselves. · 1998 POSTCARDS ARE $1.00 EACH.

1997 Klub Fan, designed by Tom Basore, featuring the three cornerstone "interests" of The Hardware Companies Kollectors Klub: Keen Kutter, Diamond Edge and Winchester Store.

· 1997 Fans are now 2 for $5.00;

· For Current Buttons & Give-Aways be sure to include $1.00 to cover cost of shipping of annual buttons and give-aways.

· Past Issues of “The Chronicles” are available. Don and Barb will send back issues ( including copies of the first ones that are out-of print) to new members or others who request them. These are $2.00 per issue.

LOGO WEAR

Exclusive Klub Member Hats. These are available with Diamond Edge and Keen Kutter Logos, with your THCKK member # embroidered on the side. Very high quality.

Exclusive Klub Shirts. These are available with Diamond Edge and Keen Kutter Logos, in a variety of colors, styles, etc. Very high quality embroidery.

Also you can send your own shirt, skirt, jacket etc. and have the Logo put on it.

These are done in Richmond, so we have easy access to have them made quickly.

As to costs, etc. talk to Larry for details.

Contact Logo Wear Store Keeper, Stan Barr, 408 E. Lexington, Richmond, MO 64085 Phone: 816-776-5692 for details and prices. E-mail: waterman@mchsi.com

· THCKK is a not-for-profit organization formed in March of 1996. It serves to distribute information and provide an interactive forum about vintage hardware companies such as E.C. Simmons, (Keen Kutter), A.F. Shapleigh (Diamond Edge)and The Winchester Store (and the popular collectibles bearing their logos and associated house brands)as well as other historically interesting hardware companies such as "Our Very Best" (Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett), Blue Grass (Belknap Hardware), Stanley, etc. are included as interest dictates(Witte, Wyeth, Lee, Sargent, etc)

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