Oilwick Lamps/Hack Sanner RSide

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Hack Sanner RSide.JPG - HACK-SANNER HARDWARE CO - Tin lamp with brass dome lid and brass collar, hard to find marking on font HACK-SANNER HDWE. CO. SHAMOKIN, PA, made by Trethaway Bros., with reinforced spout, 3 in. high to top of lid, 1 9/16 in. base dia. and 3 3/8 in. spout, unfired condition (Trethaway Bros. of Parsons, PA was a prolific manufacturer of oil wick lamps producing lamps under their own name as well as private labels including Bluefield Hardware, H. J. Richards, Alex E. Hunt and Hack Sanner Hardware among others. Sometime prior to his death in Dec. 1897, Fred W. Sanner and his brother-in-law William C. Hack entered into a business partnership called the Hack-Sanner Hardware Co. of Shamokin, PA. Lamps from the turn of the century are marked Hack-Sanner Hdwe. Co. Shamokin, PA in a symmetrical oval shaped pattern on the font. A similar lamp marked Sanner Hdwe. Co. but without the Hack name is shown elsewhere in my oilwick lamp pics. That mysterious lamp has a blank space where the Hack name was stamped. It is thought that the Hack-Sanner partnership dissolved sometime around 1913 with Emil D. Sanner as president and treasurer continuing in business as the Sanner Hardware Co. still selling private labeled Trethaway-made lamps but with Hack removed. Obviously, you can’t remove hacks from your business any too soon. See Johnson, Eureka # 24, pp 20-21 and 1907 State Historical Assoc. History of Schuykill County, Pennsylvania, pp 402-403)

Hack Sanner RSide | HACK-SANNER HARDWARE CO - Tin lamp with brass dome lid and brass collar, hard to find marking on font HACK-SANNER HDWE. CO. SHAMOKIN, PA, made by Trethaway Bros., with reinforced spout, 3 in. high to top of lid, 1 9/16 in. base dia. and 3 3/8 in. spout, unfired condition (Trethaway Bros. of Parsons, PA was a prolific manufacturer of oil wick lamps producing lamps under their own name as well as private labels including Bluefield Hardware, H. J. Richards, Alex E. Hunt and Hack Sanner Hardware among others. Sometime prior to his death in Dec. 1897, Fred W. Sanner and his brother-in-law William C. Hack entered into a business partnership called the Hack-Sanner Hardware Co. of Shamokin, PA. Lamps from the turn of the century are marked Hack-Sanner Hdwe. Co. Shamokin, PA in a symmetrical oval shaped pattern on the font. A similar lamp marked Sanner Hdwe. Co. but without the Hack name is shown elsewhere in my oilwick lamp pics. That mysterious lamp has a blank space where the Hack name was stamped. It is thought that the Hack-Sanner partnership dissolved sometime around 1913 with Emil D. Sanner as president and treasurer continuing in business as the Sanner Hardware Co. still selling private labeled Trethaway-made lamps but with Hack removed. Obviously, you can’t remove hacks from your business any too soon. See Johnson, Eureka # 24, pp 20-21 and 1907 State Historical Assoc. History of Schuykill County, Pennsylvania, pp 402-403)

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