Howdy and welcome, Don. Good to have you here. I enjoying fishing AND TOOLS myself. I played golf once as a 15 year old. My "new" step-dad took me and says to me in his training, "you know what to say when you hit the ball and its going towards people, right?". I say, "NO". "You yell at them WATCH THE !@#$% OUT".
A 1922 article in a plumbing specialty magazine noted the company as "of a new concern recently organized" by a W. H. Gabel, a former general manager of Crown Die & Tool. Their address being listed as 123 South Jefferson in Chicago. Their focus obviously on pipe tools. Their start with the "American" portable pipe vise stand.
I may be wrong but that address rings my bell thinking back on NYE Tool & Die. I need to go back and verify it's addresses.....but they were surely close if not in the same building.
