Hardware merchandising January-June 1897 . is contrivance. A SCHEME FOR DISPLAYING BRUSHES. Fig. 5 appeared in a recent issue of Hardwareman. As willreadily be seen, the purpose of the design is the displaying ofbrushes. The articles used in the construction of this novel bicycleare thus enumerated : The wheels and tires are 6d. toy hearthbrushes, the heads dooled together and the end of the handlesnailed to a round piece of wood forming the hub. Two carpetbeaters form the front fork. The handle bars are two chimneymops, bent to shape, while a blacklead brush does duty for a cheap car
Hardware merchandising January-June 1897 . is contrivance. A SCHEME FOR DISPLAYING BRUSHES. Fig. 5 appeared in a recent issue of Hardwareman. As willreadily be seen, the purpose of the design is the displaying ofbrushes. The articles used in the construction of this novel bicycleare thus enumerated : The wheels and tires are 6d. toy hearthbrushes, the heads dooled together and the end of the handlesnailed to a round piece of wood forming the hub. Two carpetbeaters form the front fork. The handle bars are two chimneymops, bent to shape, while a blacklead brush does duty for a cheap car-pet switches areemployed forthe cross frame,attached to thefront fork andscrewed to therear wheel withscrew bolt andnut. For theseat and downtube a largehearth brush istied to crossframe and bot-tom bracket, alarge spongerepresenting thebracket andchain curtainchains serve forthe chain andthe pedals areformed with two Fig. 6. lamp mops, bent to shape. One great advantage about this designis the nominal cost of its A FACE OF NAILS. Fig. 6 is a face made of nails and tacks which recentlyappeared in a Joliet, 111., hardware store, the firm offering a set ofcarvers to the person who could make the nearest guess to the num-ber of nails in the face. The face was formed by driving nails andtacks into a board which had been covered by black calico to forma background. A UNIQUE DESIGN. It is well to have a central figure in a window display. Thereis one of those central figures in the store of Thos. Meredith & Co.,King street east, Toronto. It is an anvil made of wood and sus-pended in the window by what appears to be a gigantic anvil is about equal to the size of a 150-pound iron anvil andwas cut out of a solid block of wood. It is painted black, exceptthe top, which is coated with aluminum paint. The magnet is THE HARDWARE AND METAL MERCHANT 47
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