PrentissVise
Plastic
- Joined
- Sep 28, 2006
- Location
- San Rafael, CA
Hi...
I collect Prentice/ss/s related items and one line of distraction is currently the Prentiss Vise Co. I've got a few old catalogs and a number of invoices and ads for this company. Based on that info, I've determined that the Prentiss Vise Co. sprang from the Hall Manufacturing Co. around 1880 and was in operation until at least 1940. They were based in New York City, and had manufacturing plants in Watertown, NY, Little Falls, NY, and Meriden, CT. The person who originally patented this vise was Mason Prentiss, of White Creek, NY, born around 1819. He was a gunsmith early in his life, and wound up working for Hall Mfg. where he developed the vise.
I'm hoping that people on this forum might have some additional information on this company. Dispite their 60+ years in existance, there is very little information available.
I plan to assemble the information I've got into a webpage at some point. and have set up a Yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prentissvise/) to focus discussions on these vises and history of the company.
Thanks!
...scott
I collect Prentice/ss/s related items and one line of distraction is currently the Prentiss Vise Co. I've got a few old catalogs and a number of invoices and ads for this company. Based on that info, I've determined that the Prentiss Vise Co. sprang from the Hall Manufacturing Co. around 1880 and was in operation until at least 1940. They were based in New York City, and had manufacturing plants in Watertown, NY, Little Falls, NY, and Meriden, CT. The person who originally patented this vise was Mason Prentiss, of White Creek, NY, born around 1819. He was a gunsmith early in his life, and wound up working for Hall Mfg. where he developed the vise.
I'm hoping that people on this forum might have some additional information on this company. Dispite their 60+ years in existance, there is very little information available.
I plan to assemble the information I've got into a webpage at some point. and have set up a Yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prentissvise/) to focus discussions on these vises and history of the company.
Thanks!
...scott