Antique 1895 Watworth Catalog Plumbing Steam & Tools Hardware HC

  
Antique 1895 Watworth Catalog Plumbing Steam & Tools Hardware. This would have been a dealer or salesmen catalog to market the company's wares. Wide array of steam / plumbing fittings, steam whistles, tools, sprinklers, electric railway / railroad overhead poles, machine oilers, hot water tanks, washkng machines, hot water tanks, just sll kinds of interesting things. Book is 319 numbered pages. Dark burgundy colored cover with silver embossed lettering. Shows minor wear, front end page is worn through but rest of pages are good and tight, no writing on pages, owner name inside cover, slight split on inside cover.

A very rare catalog great and reference material for collectors. Most noted for their innovative Stilson wrench design so of which are featured in this catalog. Walworth and Joseph Nason formed a partnership in New York, under the firm name of Walworth & Nason, for the purpose of warming and ventilating buildings by means of steam and hot water apparatus. The company was originally engaged in contracting and construction work.

It used hot water as a means of heating until i844 when it commenced to employ steam. The company moved to Boston in 1842 and established a small plant in the heart of the city. Five years later the plant was transferred to Edgeworth but an office was maintained in Boston.

The plant was employed to manufacture pipe which was used by the company in its installation work. The manufacturing operations of the company continued to be secondary to its contracting work. In 1852 Joseph Nason withdrew from the partnership, and a new partnership was formed under the name of J. This partnership was incorporated in 1872 under the name of the Walworth Manufacturing Company.

In the late fifties the company commenced the manufacture of pipe fittings and later it undertook the production of valves. It is interesting to note that at the present time the company has ceased to do construction work and has also ceased to produce pipe and devotes its entire energy to the production of fittings and valves.

As its activities increased, the company found its original plant insufficient and a new plant was established at Cambridgeport about i86o. This plant was continued in operation until 1882, when a factory was constructed in South Boston which continues in operation and now constitutes one of the two manufacturing plants of the company-the other being at Kewanee, Illinois. The company continued to produce pipe fittings and valves and to carry on its construction work until 1912. The personnel of the company had changed to some extent, but most of the officers and principal executives were persons who had long been in its service. In this year it was decided that a reorganization of the company was desirable and this was commenced by the selection of Mr.

Howard Coonley, of Chicago, Illinois, as president of the company. Coonley brought about a complete reorganization of the company and commenced a campaign for extending its activities.

The Kewanee plant trebled the output of the company and this in turn resulted in a change in the sales methods and policies. Citation for everything above, authored in 1922.