Another vintage Nicols with a bag

[fedora]

This one is like the one I just bought except it has the ball and hook. I love the character that these old swivels and bags have.






fedora

[paranday]

I like the character Mr Fedora has ! Great taste in swivels, sir !

[Dutchman]

Looks to be in really nice condition, the bag doesn't look too bad either. I'm afraid to go look what it's going for tho.

[paranday]

Looks to be in really nice condition, the bag doesn't look too bad either. I'm afraid to go look what it's going for tho.

I know what you mean. Say Dutch, what became of the Nichols company ?

[fedora]

Looks to be in really nice condition, the bag doesn't look too bad either. I'm afraid to go look what it's going for tho.

I made an offer of $50.00 for the set and it was accepted. Maybe too much, I don't know, but still worth it to me.

fedora

[paranday]

Worth it. Your a Nichols man.

[Dutchman]

What happened to them? Well that's the $65 question isn't it. We have an address Nicol & Co 55-57 West Washington St. Chicago Il . It appears that they are out of the scene sometime in the 1930's. I've run into dead ends on this one in the past, put now thanks to google books I'm unearthing fire inspector reports on this building so I'll keep digging. Realistically there is probably two things that happened to them. One is that they were bought out by another supplier, or two, they just folded.

[Dutchman]

Nicol & Co was apparently a fairly sizable specialty metal working firm. Our beloved swivels were but a small part of their extensive line of products. They were well known for coin banks http://www.internetantiquegazette.co...nicol_company/. It also appears that they did a lot of specialty items on order besides cataloged products. The firm was founded in 1883, but like I have said above so far I haven't been able to pin down when it ceased to do business.

[fedora]

I got this in the mail today. Amazingly the bag actually inflated and so far if it leaks it is a slow one. It doesn't look like it was used all that much considering it's age. The swivel is in great shape too. Cleaned up pretty well with just a slight rubbing with some fine steel wool.




Now I just have to find a place to hang them both in my garage.

fedora

[Dutchman]

Oh that's really nice. Leather looks good, and the swivel cleaned up real well. Congrats on an exquisite acquisition.

[Speedbag]

I got this in the mail today. Amazingly the bag actually inflated and so far if it leaks it is a slow one. It doesn't look like it was used all that much considering it's age. The swivel is in great shape too. Cleaned up pretty well with just a slight rubbing with some fine steel wool.




Now I just have to find a place to hang them both in my garage.

fedora

Wundabah!

[fedora]

I mounted it on my platform today and hit it around some. What a monster!! The swivel works really well but I'm sure the people down the block a ways can hear it.

fedora