1912 Logan Gregg Hardware Catalog

[Cholla 711]

Everything in this catalog is interesting but I found the gun section particularly interesting. The start around page 991. You can download the whole thing.

https://ia800701.us.archive.org/29/items/LoganGreggHardwareCatNo30/Logan-Gregg Hardware Cat No 30.pdf

 

[Alpo 4,754]

Look at page 93. Measuring tapes.

 

Now, this has to be a wholesale place. Buy stuff to sell in your store  And here's a box of a dozen measuring tapes. $4. And the MSRP is marked on the box. 25¢.

 

I buy this box of twelve for $4, sell all of them in my store for 25¢ each. Gross sales $3. Net loss $1. They have two different brands of 25¢ tapes for $4 a dozen, and one of smaller, 10¢ tapes, for $1.60 a dozen.

 

That one's a better deal. You only lose 60¢ per case with them, instead of a dollar, like with the bigger ones.

[Sedalia Dave 8,417]

4 hours ago, Alpo said:

Look at page 93. Measuring tapes.

 

Now, this has to be a wholesale place. Buy stuff to sell in your store  And here's a box of a dozen measuring tapes. $4. And the MSRP is marked on the box. 25¢.

 

I buy this box of twelve for $4, sell all of them in my store for 25¢ each. Gross sales $3. Net loss $1. They have two different brands of 25¢ tapes for $4 a dozen, and one of smaller, 10¢ tapes, for $1.60 a dozen.

 

That one's a better deal. You only lose 60¢ per case with them, instead of a dollar, like with the bigger ones.

 

Alpo, they was selling those to people that flunked math.

[Deacon Henry, SASS #53503L 57]

I love the illustrations in the old catalogs. Thanks for posting.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 5,647]

4 hours ago, Alpo said:

and one of smaller, 10¢ tapes, for $1.60 a dozen.

 

That one's a better deal. You only lose 60¢ per case with them, instead of a dollar, like with the bigger ones.

 

40¢ ?

 

7 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

Alpo, they was selling those to people that flunked math.

 

[Sixgun Sheridan 3,262]

I'll bet a lot of cowboys back then were wishing they could've just downloaded that catalog...

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 5,647]

Just now, Sixgun Sheridan said:

I'll bet a lot of cowboys back then were wishing they could've just downloaded that catalog...

No the paper had some other uses. Sears Roebuck was not enough.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935 5,116]

30 minutes ago, Sixgun Sheridan said:

I'll bet a lot of cowboys back then were wishing they could've just downloaded that catalog...

I wish I could today.

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 1,672]

5 hours ago, Alpo said:

Look at page 93. Measuring tapes.

 

Now, this has to be a wholesale place. Buy stuff to sell in your store  And here's a box of a dozen measuring tapes. $4. And the MSRP is marked on the box. 25¢.

 

I buy this box of twelve for $4, sell all of them in my store for 25¢ each. Gross sales $3. Net loss $1. They have two different brands of 25¢ tapes for $4 a dozen, and one of smaller, 10¢ tapes, for $1.60 a dozen.

 

That one's a better deal. You only lose 60¢ per case with them, instead of a dollar, like with the bigger ones.

Alpo's gone into the mercantile bizness? 

[Alpo 4,754]

Between Buryin' is Us and Alpo's Fine Furniture, I ain't got time to run a general store.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 3,709]

Wow...!  Marble's compasses (pg 990) cost $8 to $27 per dozen... and a Belgian Laminated Steel Shot Gun could be had for $11.25~!  

[Sixgun Sheridan 3,262]

Yup, and back then you'd have been lucky to make $2 a day.

[Sedalia Dave 8,417]

The most likely reason it costs $4.00 is that you are paying for the deluxe gold embossed display case as well as the tape measures.

[Sedalia Dave 8,417]

On page 1022 you can purchase a Maxim Silencer for only $5.00. Can be installed by anyone on any .22 Also available direct from the factory for larger calibers.

The following pages have reloading tools and supplies.

[Seamus McGillicuddy 205]

Love the comment on the Savage 1899 in .30-30; “It will kill anything.”

 

Seamus

[Wyatt Earp SASS#1628L 113]

Page 1075, the No. 0 Bench Closer (roll crimper). $7.20 per dozen = 60 cents each!!

I bought the exact same tool from a pard on the wire at least 20 years ago and I think I paid about $25-30. Damn, what a rip off!