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Sargent & Co
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Sargent & Co
One of the oldest and at one time the largest hardware manufacturers and distributors in the country.
Sargent & Co. was founded in 1858 in New York by the merger of three companies run by different Sargent
brothers but owned by Joseph Bradford Sargent (born Dec 14, 1822, died 1907) who became the president.
In 1864 he built a state of the art manufacturing plane with water frontage in New Haven, CT.
Beginning in 1871 Sargent started to offer wooden planes, first selling planes manufactured
by H Chapin/Union Factory and later adding a Sandusky Tool Co line.
First the Sandusky planes were all under the Sandusky name and later under the Sargent A & A1
imprints which were apparently derived from the Sandusky C imprint.
There is an example of a Sandusky tongue plane overstamped Sargent & Co.
Sargent was also a major manufacturer of wood bottom transitional type planes and
all metal planes many under Sargent patents granted to Joseph Bradford and Henry Sargent.
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