Koh-I-Noor: 1902

Neat!!! I see Nate's "Big Help" is noted in the pic too!

Koh-I-Noor And Memories

Koh-I-Noor was a local family owned and run business. The owner was next door neighbor to my sister-in-law in Easton, PA, we lived a block away. My wife babysat some grandkids. One son was a wrestler at Lehigh University while I attended. The Koh-I-Noor plant was in Bloomsbury, New Jersey. When they built a new plant circa 1990 in nearby Greenwich Township I was working for the Greenwich Township Engineer. Their preconstruction meeting was in our office. When they left the boss got on the PA system and announced that there were a few leftovers for the staff. The huge conference table was covered with a plethora of templates and such. I just filled my tools in with those that I did not yet have. Sadly the family and company is gone from the area.

The family was Lithuanian and I enjoyed attending their local Lithuanian Catholic Church. It was vastly and beautifully ornate, sadly with Vatican II it was modernized. Once a month the choir sang Mass in Lithuanian, what a warm language. I would drive past 2 other Catholic Churches to get there, plus the one I was supposed to attend was 3 blocks in the other direction. Sadly that church now just sits empty.

Paul in PA

I used a number of those same type of drafting items early in my career. Thanks for posting- very cool indeed.

Chuck

What is the machine in the center of the photo sitting on top of the box behind the range pole?

Not enough detail to be sure, but I wonder if it is a high precision slide rule, having many feet of scale broken down into manageable lengths and mounted around a rotary axis. I once saw such a beast exhibited by Dale Beeks, but didn't learn all about its operation.

JP-

It may be this

Cheers

Derek

Rotary Display Rack Of Triangular Scales

Back in those days it was easy to get scales such as 1" = 16.5', 33', 66'. That plus decimal and architectural and you might need a dozen.

It is not some fancy slide rule because the dimensions are uniform, not logarithmic.

Paul in PA

There is a US Army Recruiting Office across the street.

Is that a couple of Lenker rods in the window?

Very nice picture. I never liked those circular erasers.

Nope. All three look like Philadelphia Rods.
I don't think that Lenker rods were being made in 1902

True, also later I noticed the numbers were not running in the right direction for a Lenker..Philly it is!

I went to the local blueprint/copy/drafting supply shop just yesterday. He's still got some Koh-I-Noor pens, Leroy templates and pink pearl erasers out on the shelves. These guys probably do alright $$ wise on copies but all the obsolete drafting supplies were just kind of saddening to me anyway.

I have purchased some drafting supplies, pencils, templates, erasers, etc. at the local drafting store at some extreme bargains. They still make great art supplies the same stuff is alive and well and selling at very high prices across town at the art stores.