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| Ennis catalog cover |
Ennis made many of the hardware specialties that Reading Saddle had made, with fewer cast iron items and more forged steel tools. The quality of Ennis products ranged from low to average, for the household market. Later Ennis items carried the brand name Vernontown Tools. These included average quality concrete and plaster finishing trowels in carbon steel and stainless steel, guaranteed against blade breakage. Both Ennis and Vernontown items have a logo of "NS" in a diamond, a phonetic rendering of "Ennis".
Ennis's building was damaged by fire 28 Jan. 1969, but the company continued operating for an unknown time. The Vernontown trademark was taken over by Barco Industries for "masonry tools; namely, margin trowels, pointing trowels, brick trowels, plastering trowels, spreaders, floats, putty knives, linoleum knives, scrapers, groovers, edgers, and tampers." The Vernontown trademark was cancelled 21 Feb. 2004. Barco history is covered at Yesteryears Tools.
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| Vernontown stainless steel plastering trowel 11'' X 4.5 '' |
I know ted Ennis who ran this after his father and brother died.he is still living in Fla at 89 yrs old. His son is in reading still
ReplyDeleteI'm sitting with Ted right now having a cocktail, he turned 90 last Friday. He is one cool dude.
ReplyDeleteIf you could ask Ted to contact me, I would really appreciate it! I am an Ennis descendent and would really appreciate the opportunity to talk to him about the history of our family's company.
DeletePlease email me wvamark21@gmail.com
DeleteMatt,call me,954-732-1999, my friends with Teddy Ennis, he's sitting next to me, we've been friends many years and I can put you in touch with him, My name is Ron
ReplyDeleteI found a hand tool at yard sale today here in Michigan. Maybe carpet knife of similar tool. Still sturdy!
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