B.F. Meek & Sons Tackle Box F/S
B.F. Meek & Sons Tackle Box F/S
Missing the inside trays, asking $325 including shipping. Harvey posted that he has the trays available under my post on Joe's Old Lures message board.
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I'm glad that Meek's reel making skills were better than his calligraphy
Bill: Based on the shape of the lid in the second view, there must be a compartment in there...what does it look like?
Bill: Based on the shape of the lid in the second view, there must be a compartment in there...what does it look like?
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hmmmm! what is the metal?
cool-thumb USA Bill, please take a magnet to the box, if it dont (stick) it well may be the same thing the East Kentucky coal miners used for a lunch pail< its shaped the same and as same size. The Coal miners lunch pails were made of aluminum and brass for hinges and a brass pin for the hinging, also the clips used to hold the box from opening were if brass! Its a most interesting item, the reason for a non ferious item was so it wouldnt cause a spark and set off menthane gas to cause a explosion, If its what It looks like and all non ferous metal, could you give the mesurments? If its the same as a lunch bucket, My son -in Law would most likly want it to display in his office at his mine. Your ohio Conection on lake erie , Col. M. lorens aka SWIM JIG
Are you sure it is a tackle box?
You either have a one-of-a-kind or one of a thousand (minus Meeks name painted on in odd style lettering). Wonder why it wasn't inscribed? What do you think Steve V? It diffinately had a hard life.
Too much rust for aluminum and...
not many lunch pails had locks unless you worked in a PA coal mine.
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From what I have been told, those lunch box type were made by Falls City of Louisville. I have seen Falls City's, Meek's, A&I, A&F and some unmarked. I have a Shakespeare with a very poor painted stencil in the same place. They were in the catalogues in the teens and early twenties.
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And the ones I have seen are metal.
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And the ones I have seen are metal.
Lunch pail
early lunch pails were metal. Not much plastics until the 50s. I don't believe that one in the pic is stenciled, I could be wrong.
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Harvey's correct, except I don't believe Falls City was in Louisville. I have owned three of these Meek boxes, and have also owned several of the same boxes labeled Shakespeare and Abercrombie & Fitch, and maybe some others. I have also found them with no markings on it, just painted black. And they were all manufactured as tackle boxes with trays.
Falls City
Phil,
Falls City may not have been a Louisville company during the era this box was made, but it did eventually find its way there as a subsidiary of Stratton & Terstegge Hardware Co. (Louisville) which produced a ginormous line of tackle boxes, fly boxes, etc. marked Falls City and My Buddy from the 1930s onward (and probably earlier as well). I have a 1940 catalog showing the very large factory with a huge sign that says "Falls City and My Buddy" on the side, and claiming to be the world's largest manufacturer of minnow buckets and tackle boxes.
I have been told that Falls City had been owned by S&T from the beginning (1890s) but have not been able to verify this as of yet.
Cheers,
Dr. Todd
Falls City may not have been a Louisville company during the era this box was made, but it did eventually find its way there as a subsidiary of Stratton & Terstegge Hardware Co. (Louisville) which produced a ginormous line of tackle boxes, fly boxes, etc. marked Falls City and My Buddy from the 1930s onward (and probably earlier as well). I have a 1940 catalog showing the very large factory with a huge sign that says "Falls City and My Buddy" on the side, and claiming to be the world's largest manufacturer of minnow buckets and tackle boxes.
I have been told that Falls City had been owned by S&T from the beginning (1890s) but have not been able to verify this as of yet.
Cheers,
Dr. Todd
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Interesting stuff guys, very informative. Now somebody buy the freakin' thing. Price drop to $300, shipping included.
I've got a couple of these still in my collection, one like this one and another with the printing on the front of the tackle box (larger letters, different script). Not sure how many variations are out there.
I've got a couple of these still in my collection, one like this one and another with the printing on the front of the tackle box (larger letters, different script). Not sure how many variations are out there.
Ginormous
Hi Phil,
Oops, got caught up in "student speak." Its a word that they seem to use in every other sentence. Anyway Webster's defines it thusly:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ginormous
Ginormous indeed.
Cheers,
Dr. Todd
P.S. Kudos to coining "wowser". Maybe we can submit it to the O.E.D. as a new English word?
Oops, got caught up in "student speak." Its a word that they seem to use in every other sentence. Anyway Webster's defines it thusly:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ginormous
Ginormous indeed.
Cheers,
Dr. Todd
P.S. Kudos to coining "wowser". Maybe we can submit it to the O.E.D. as a new English word?
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Broadening my vocab
Todd: THanks for the info about ginormous. What a great word! Nice to add a new one to one's vocabulary. You never know when you'll come across a "ginormous" field find or maybe just a "ginormous" tuition bill.
Regards,
Richard
Regards,
Richard