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26th March 2014, 04:21 PM #31Senior Member
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Most of mine have been in the $30-60 range off eBay. Hard to get them in the #10-15 range these days, I cant get to garage sales as I'm selling at markets most Saturdays The sorters at the Rotary book sales bin catalogues before they even get out on the table! I'm working hard to educate my local Rotary's
Graeme
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26th March 2014, 04:28 PM #32
I've got mine at swapmeets and the tool sales. Ebay adds another $15 to the price with postage. I've been waiting to bid on that one currently on ebay.
…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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26th March 2014, 10:09 PM #33SENIOR MEMBER
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So Graeme how are you working out what state the cat is from? Is it the address printed first???
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27th March 2014, 09:10 AM #34Senior Member
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I have three 1937 McPhersons catalogues. Two with this cover as above (note all with this cover say "Tools an Machinery"). One has Sydney on top of states list on cover and No37 in bottom corner, inside the cover it says "issued in May 1937" with the Sydney Bathurst street address on this and the facing page. The other has Melbourne on top of state list and NO No37 in corner, inside cover says "issued in March 1937 with the Collins street address on both pages.
The third catalogue has a green cover with large yellow 1937 and it has "Catalogue for Engineers and Industrialists" across the cover with Melbourne first on both sides of cover the facing page appear to have been replaced by a half pages strip where amongst the usual guff about changing prices it has "printed in early 1937"
ALL three catalogues are collated differently (ie, page Nos don't correspond with what's illustrated ) I also know that they all don't have the same goods listed. Quite a saga isn't it!
Graeme
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27th March 2014, 02:22 PM #35Senior Member
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List of McPherson's Catalogues
It would be good to have a consolidated list of the Catalogues.
From the posts above I have collated an initial list:
1899
1910
1912
1923
1926
1929
1931
1932 (No 33)
1934 (No 34)
1937 (No 37 - Melb & Syd versions)
1949 (Melb & Syd versions)
1951
1955
1960 (Centenary Catalogue)
1962 (Reprint of 1960 Centenary Catalogue with Red Text)
1978 (McPherson's Industrial Catalogue)
Others
1915 (M9 Machine Tools)
Farmers and Home workshop
1914
192?
1933 (No 33)
1935
Hope people can add to the list
Graham
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27th March 2014, 06:40 PM #36
1960 (Centenary Catalogue) Gold Text
1962 (Reprint of 1960 Centenary Catalogue with Red Text)
I didn't realise the red text version was a reprint I thought it was a Sydney state issue. I wonder why they reprinted it 2years later??
There is also those small "McPHERSON'S HANDYMAN GUIDE TO BETTER RESULTS" in red (now pink) or blue.
And many various charts, drill and tap sizes etc.…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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27th March 2014, 07:14 PM #37SENIOR MEMBER
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I'd say the 1962 is a revised or updated edition rather than a reprint. I'd did have both 1960 and 62 at one stage but sold the 60.
The brown catalogue first pictured I think is 1968 (not 78) as inthe list above.
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27th March 2014, 07:43 PM #38SENIOR MEMBER
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1966
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27th March 2014, 09:12 PM #39Senior Member
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I wasn't aware that there was two Centenary editions until this thread ! I had to retrieve the red one from my to sell pile! The 1962 edition is NOT a reprint! There are a dozen more pages in the gold (1960) one and they have not been collated the same. I would say that the only connection between the two is the "almost similar" front cover.
Graeme
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28th March 2014, 10:25 AM #40Senior Member
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Accept the 1962 version was not a reprint but looks like a new edition from Sydney.
the brown Industrial Catalogue is undated and there is no clue of the date in any of the text. However the reference to McPherson's.pdf in DSEL74's post of 26 March clearly states that this Industrial Catalogue was dated 1978. In 1977 the industry was converting to the metric system. Although almost all of the products in this catalogue are imperial there is mention in the Metrology section that metric versions are available.
I will add the 1966 catalogue to the list.
There is also a 1924 Woodwork Tools catalogue No 6.
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28th March 2014, 01:05 PM #41Senior Member
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28th March 2014, 01:35 PM #42
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28th March 2014, 05:33 PM #43Senior Member
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[QUOTE=gmoss;1761114]Accept the 1962 version was not a reprint but looks like a new edition from Sydney.
the brown Industrial Catalogue is undated and there is no clue of the date in any of the text. However the reference to McPherson's.pdf in DSEL74's post of 26 March clearly states that this Industrial Catalogue was dated 1978. In 1977 the industry was converting to the metric system. Although almost all of the products in this catalogue are imperial there is mention in the Metrology section that metric versions are available. UNQUOTE
Should the brown cover catalogue be 1968 rather than 1978? My brown cover McPherson's catalogue (said to be 1968) shows a page of Titan chisels that would have mostly disappeared by 1978. Didn't McPerson's go to a four volume set in the early Seventies. Or, have I arsed up something here? It sometimes happens. What with my medication and stuff.
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28th March 2014, 06:05 PM #44Senior Member
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28th March 2014, 07:07 PM #45
1964 Cat.
This is NSW.
Auburn and Newcastle West addresses.
164on spine 264 on index.
H.Jimcracks for the rich and/or wealthy. (aka GKB '88)
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