October 12, 2003

A C. DREW tack hammer was recently offered on Ebay. The item is important because of its rarity, with no others to my knowledge appearing on Ebay during the last three years or so. The only other examples known to the writer are a pair of C. DREW tack hammers present in the Davistown Museum Collection in Liberty, Maine. Presumably, these tack hammers were made prior to the 1920s as they were not found to be included in either of the C. DREW catalogs 34 or 36, which were published during that decade.

Kingston, Massachusetts was a major manufacturer of nails and tacks during the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, which may have prompted C. DREW to manufacture tack hammers.

Thanks are extended to Geoge Calado for his permission to use the photos presented below.