M & H 'A' Hammers

[J Patrick Draine]

JIMRPT@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 7/29/2000 12:23:03 PM, avery@ev1.net writes:
>
> <<"#64619,
> which I believe puts it in the 20's, before Aeolian. Right? ">>
>
> Avery;
>  According to my atlas this thingee was made circa 1958 :-(.  Well, it still
> is well worth re-whatevering.
>  This dating opens up the hammer selection considerably as I think that M&H
> was using Preimer (sp?) hammers at that time.
>

Perhaps, Jim, but they were making their own at the E. Rochester factory in the
late 70's, and the old timer doing it acted like he had been making them there
for decades. Old Dolge presses, and that light green underfelt.

Patrick Draine