Documents
The Old Mans Library
The listing below shows the files available in my library. The files include advertisements, instructions and catalogs that I have gathered over the years or have had sent to me. NOTE: You will need to log in before you can actually download the files. This is to control the bandwidth and to keep AI from scraping my files to add to their knowledge at my bandwidth expense. Registering is free and painless and as soon as you are approved you will be able to download files!
This is their announcement of their new Slush Mold system. From the Dec 1937 Popular Mechanics magazine.
Two page catalog for American Craft Mfg. Co., out of Chicago Illinois.
This is a 1935 Ad from the 10/4/1935 Daily News of New York Page 801.
Home foundry Advertisement from 1934.
Two page flyer of Lincoln Single-Figure Lead-Kaster.
J. L. Wright 3 page flyer including both Lincoln Logs and Lincoln Lead Kaster.
This is an add for Make-A-Toy a company out of Boston, Mass., from the April 1930 Playthings Magazine. Note that the Make-A-Toy Ad is at the bottom of the page.
This one page flyer is the only example I have found of the moulds from Make A Toy a company out of Boston, Mass.
Catalog for the Dick Tracy and other comic characters including Moon Mullins, Dick tracy, Little Orphan Annie, The Lone Ranger and others.
German Company IDEAL catalog showing images of each of the models their moulds make.
The Rapaport Home Foundry Catalog from 1937. 32 pages, includes individual moulds, sets/kits and their tapping sets.
Sachs Metal Cast casting instructions for both solid and slush molds. Also a brief page on painting!