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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: HeelSpur on October 04, 2013, 12:30:17 PM

Title: Brownie C-Clamp
Post by: HeelSpur on October 04, 2013, 12:30:17 PM

Anybody recognize this logo?

(http://imageshack.us/a/img7/492/hpkj.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img547/5586/bbvr.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img46/8985/wglk.jpg)

Title: Re: Brownie C-Clamp
Post by: rusty on October 04, 2013, 04:19:28 PM

Messy , and complicated, some forge mark from an iron foundry in Indiana, contracted to Majestic co, which was a contrace hardware supplier for Mesker Bros....(Mesker Bros iron works, but they bought and sold more than they actually made)

("Brownie clamp co" was actually a paper division of Majestic co, Huntington,IA)

Title: Re: Brownie C-Clamp
Post by: HeelSpur on October 04, 2013, 04:31:43 PM

You're right that's a brain teaser. Where did you find your info?
I know how to make brownies now since I googled it.

Title: Re: Brownie C-Clamp
Post by: Papaw on October 04, 2013, 10:07:38 PM

OK, but do you know what to put in the brownies?
Reference- Alice B Toklas

Title: Re: Brownie C-Clamp
Post by: Bill Houghton on October 05, 2013, 03:16:21 PM

Have you ever seen the Official Boy Scout tools - knife and all that?  This is obviously an Official Brownie C-Clamp, as used by those little pre-Girl Scouts for their troop projects.  In the U.S., the Girl Scouts have abolished the names for the various age groups, so this is now an Official Collector's Item.

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