Scanning Around With Gene: Eyelets, Grommets, and Puttees

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I can’t fathom keeping track of thousands of small drawings and parts, but obviously Stimpson found a way. The 1939 catalog is 24 pages long and includes many, many illustrations.

If you check out the Stimpson website, you’ll see that the company has replaced its drawings with photographs, although the look of the products is very similar to what’s shown here. I guess a rivet is a rivet in any era.

I sometimes imagine being a manufacturer of something–an industrialist with a smokestack and factory floor. I’m never sure what it is I’d like to make, but I’d be pretty happy if I cranked out forked, drilled, and side-prong rivets, hole plugs, or parts for use in properly wearing your puttee.
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