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Buffum tools were often marked with a Swastika and it showed up in advertising as

well. The logo was the Good Luck / Blessing / Swastika Cross. Many of his

advertisements for tools contained the slogan

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Buffum Tool Company, High Grade

Tools For High Grade Workmen, Louisiana, Mo.

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The two extractors below are marked

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The Garlock Packing Co.

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Garlock roots go back

to the 19th Century. On January 28, 1893 the firm applied for a trademark for its Piston-

Rod and Other Machinery Packing products. At the time the firm was operated by

Frederick Griffith, Olin Garlock (inventor of a packing for steam engines), and Eugene

Nichols in Palmyra, New York.