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Michael, you need to do what I do.Get a SP2 or 3 for a left pocket knife.They are really good for what you do and if it gets borrowed and lost it's no big deal.Arnold
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Oh, I have them. SP1, SP2, SP3, SP7 and SP8, all users or seconds. I'm just spoiled to my old trusty! I always have an assortment of box cutters in my service truck cab console, toolbox, and clipped to the cargo pocket of my service uniform. I use them when the work is "above average destructive" on a blade. But when I am working and think "knife!", the 897UH just comes to mind and hand. You know how it is with us old Codgers!
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Yeah I know.My crew could never understand why instead of my LB7 I would use my baby 18OT for most jobs.Arnold
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And before it is asked again, when I originally posted this picture some time back, someone inquired whether Henry Baer might have been suffering from arthritis. I've since come across a story which might explain his arthritic-looking hands.
Sometime during the 1930's, Henry had an accident. Somehow distracted, he stepped into the elevator... which wasn't there when the doors opened... and fell three stories (or four, depending on the account) suffering massive injuries. He was hospitalized for quite some time, eventually re-learning to walk and use his arms and hands.
I am still researching this story, so the details are not yet known. It has been mentioned here by a member or two that "Albert 'carried' Henry all of his life, using him in an unflattering manner, and treating him in a shabby fashion by giving him a tiny office, menial tasks, and using him to run interference with media types and other visitors Albert did not wish to see. To some extent, this may be true. From an outsider's perspective.
But the picture I am beginning to see is of a younger brother who for months on end rushed from his work every evening to his disabled brother's hospital bed, read to him and told of his escapades in the cutlery business. He made his brother an officer in his new company when he bought Ulster in 1940 from the Divine family. He saw to it that his brother had a useful and productive life, and yes, he used his brother's winning personality as a figurehead for his businesses, making him President. Henry was a kind, thoughtful artistic and creative man, liked, if not loved, by all who came in contact with him. He was revered by workers and staff. Not at all the "do-nothing" some might portray him as being, I have read correspondence files in which he personally directed the production of samples and packaging and launches of production programs. In spite of insinuations that he might have been less that bright, he had good insight on costing materials and reducing production costs on those programs, and most, if not all of his ideas were carefully considered if not implemented.
Artistic? I wish I had some of his paintings and watercolors which hung in his office and the factory. I do have some of his humurous sketches almost all of which featured the artist.
Michael
Sometime during the 1930's, Henry had an accident. Somehow distracted, he stepped into the elevator... which wasn't there when the doors opened... and fell three stories (or four, depending on the account) suffering massive injuries. He was hospitalized for quite some time, eventually re-learning to walk and use his arms and hands.
I am still researching this story, so the details are not yet known. It has been mentioned here by a member or two that "Albert 'carried' Henry all of his life, using him in an unflattering manner, and treating him in a shabby fashion by giving him a tiny office, menial tasks, and using him to run interference with media types and other visitors Albert did not wish to see. To some extent, this may be true. From an outsider's perspective.
But the picture I am beginning to see is of a younger brother who for months on end rushed from his work every evening to his disabled brother's hospital bed, read to him and told of his escapades in the cutlery business. He made his brother an officer in his new company when he bought Ulster in 1940 from the Divine family. He saw to it that his brother had a useful and productive life, and yes, he used his brother's winning personality as a figurehead for his businesses, making him President. Henry was a kind, thoughtful artistic and creative man, liked, if not loved, by all who came in contact with him. He was revered by workers and staff. Not at all the "do-nothing" some might portray him as being, I have read correspondence files in which he personally directed the production of samples and packaging and launches of production programs. In spite of insinuations that he might have been less that bright, he had good insight on costing materials and reducing production costs on those programs, and most, if not all of his ideas were carefully considered if not implemented.
Artistic? I wish I had some of his paintings and watercolors which hung in his office and the factory. I do have some of his humurous sketches almost all of which featured the artist.
Michael
