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A friend passed along the following link to a F.K. Russel Catalog that has been scanned into a pdf. file.

http://toolemera.com/catpdf/fullchiselleathertoolscatSec.pdf

F.K. Russell was a leathertool maker in Dallas, Texas back in the early part of the last century

For those of you who are just interested in the stamping tools and would like to download those pages for referance - I have posted those pages in jpeg. format at my blog page.

http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?app=blog&module=display&section=blog&blogid=31

Take a look...............find out what a "sinker" is (something new I learned from the catalog)

(John 8:32) And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (KJV)

And the truth is that religion is nothing more than the lame attempt by largely ignorant people to

bring sense and order to a world that was beyond their comprehension. Once you see religion for the

delusional and superstitious artifact it is............... you will be free !

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Thank you for posting the link to the Russel catalog. Very interesting, The quality of the stamps is remarkable. I see in the catalog they refered to backgrounders,bar grounders and bevelers as sinkers. There dot sinker ( bar grounder) is priced at .25 cents, and a rope basket .35 cents . amazing.

steve

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Wow holy inflation! Stamps now are about 25 times the price.

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With the recent price increase of new stamps at Tandy to 9.99, the inflation is much closer to 40x. That's just insane!

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Very interesting designs. Of all your scans I still don't see the design of the one that I have. Of course it was made by a company in NY that went out of business in the 1930s.

We don't just build saddles, we create them.

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PcCowboy,

What does your stamp look like? I picked up one a while back of a pineapple. I know it used to be a sign of good luck or whatever, but it is pretty strange

Here is a picture of the tooling

What do you know. I was wrong about the company Must have been thinking about the company I was looking for who made some conchos I wanted to find. The name on the stamp is: F. K. R. MCH. CO. Dallas TX.

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I have been looking for a few years trying to see if someone else has this tool, but haven't found anyone. Wilford Lewis got this from his father when he was young. Will died almost 10 years ago when he was 82. I use this tooling as my signature tooling since I seem to be the only one who can do it.

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We don't just build saddles, we create them.

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