Apparently a product of the Brownie Tool Co. located in Minooka, Illinois, these appeared to be rather crudely made but they did cast their name in the frame. From Facebook comes a bit more information, The company was in business in the forties, a Mr. Brown invented a number of items, patented them, and formed the company to sell them. I wonder what he could have patented on such a common measuring tool...
Last week a friend baked me a batch of brownies to thank me for stacking a couple of cords of firewood.
ReplyDeleteThe brownies, which were delicious, were of such exactingly uniform thickness that I wondered how she did it.
Now I know.
I'm sure the firewood piles were also precisely measured.
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