At 09:56 PM 1/7/06, N.A. Mitkowski wrote:

>If you think of all the other chisel manufacturers of the time, they 
>all use the company name as their trademark.  But not Winsted Edge 
>Tool Works. Why is that?  It seems strange.  Witherby named his 
>Millbury company after himself and he put his name on those chisels. 
>If Witherby ever had anything to do with Winsted Edge Tool Works, 
>why isn't his name a part of the company?  And why did Winsted not 
>put their name on their chisels until the 1940-1950's?

That's not entirely true.  There are a fair number of Witherby 
chisels around with the box logo and Warranted on the front and 
stamped WINSTED EDGE TOOL WORKS --WINSTED, CONN. U.S.A.-- on the 
back.  These are generally considered to be of later vintage in the 
boxed logo line but when they started doing that is a mystery.

Good piece of research though.  Fills in some gaps...

Tony

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