Ivan Leathercraft

[Sheilajeanne]

Like I said, Fred, Ivan now makes stamps Tandy has discontinued, like acorns and holly leaves. But - good question. Maybe there is some connection. If not, Ivan is definitely trying to compete with Tandy.

[fredk]

43 minutes ago, Sheilajeanne said:

Like I said, Fred, Ivan now makes stamps Tandy has discontinued, like acorns and holly leaves. But - good question. Maybe there is some connection. If not, Ivan is definitely trying to compete with Tandy.

No, I'm referring back over 22 years; Ivan = Tandy = Ivan, both had the same items in their 'catalogue' at the same time, but at different prices

I think Ivan was for the Far Eastern & Europe markets before Tandy put outlets there. Before Tandy had shops in England Ivan was the name for working hardware such as stamps and alphabet letter/number sets

[Sheilajeanne]

Hmmm...okay, I have no way of knowing just how old these stamps are, as I bought them from a pawn shop. Given there were quite a number of older Tandy stamps in the lot, they could easily date back that far.

Have never bought new stamps from Ivan.

[fredk]

About 4 years ago I got a windfall of much ££. I decided to spend some of it by buying a load of stamps. Le Prevo had nearly all what I wanted, made by Ivan. Tandy had the same ones plus the others Le Prevo didn't have. [not discontinued, just oos ]  Le Prevo's price was about £6 each, Tandy was about £10 each. I bought about 35 stamps from Le Prevo and about 10 from Tandy. The packaging was exactly the same just the name on the front of the label and on the rear label by the barcode was different

I think also Ivan are happy to supply other outlets wholesale but Tandy is not. I used to buy some odd Tandy conchos from an ebay seller in England but he stopped selling them. He told me that Tandy was no longer supplying him as he wasn't a 'Tandy shop'

[TonySFLDLTHR]

On 6/2/2022 at 10:25 AM, fredk said:

'Ivan' is based in Taiwan

All the hardware eg stamps,  that I've bought from Tandy has been made in Taiwan

Is Ivan/Taiwan actually Tandy? Is Tandy hardware made by Ivan and just relabelled?

I get emails from both companies and when they are promoting something quite often its the same item using the same photo of it but prices are slightly different

Just wanted to weigh in on a post from more than a year ago. LOL

Ivan used to produce almost all the tools for Tandy. When the new CEO came in for Tandy, there was a shift and low and behold Ivan was now able to distribute his tools through other outlets. 

I don't think Tandy owned Ivan in the way that they were a parent company. I believe it to be that it was that Tandy got so much from them that it was don't sell to anyone else or we won't use you.