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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 1956382, member: 22729&quot;][ATTACH=full]344137[/ATTACH] I&#039;d seen this counterstamp at Steve Hayden&#039;s table at the Baltimore show a few times before but never pulled the trigger. I finally decided to buy it this last time around. That&#039;s the good thing about collecting what I do...a thin collector base. If I don&#039;t get something the first time I see it, it&#039;s usually still around later.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Ohio Tool Co. was founded in 1823 in Columbus, OH and specialized in manufacturing wooden planes. An interesting aspect of their business was that they used prison inmates for labor...from about 1840 into the 1880s. I assume they paid them but probably not a whole lot. In 1893 they merged with the Auburn Tool Co., and later, in 1903, moved their plant to Charleston, WV when their Columbus facility was destroyed in a flood. They went out of business in about 1920.</p><p><br /></p><p>Including mine, there are only three examples of this stamp documented. A nice old classic counterstamp from early industrial America. Glad I finally bought her.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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