1904 Hiatt's Catalogue

I've attached a PDF of a 1904 Hiatt's Catalogue for anyone interested. Hopefully you can access the PDF?
Paul

Thanks Paul, great to see there is colour in the original catalogue. The few pages I had from the 1907 were photocopies and I just assumed it was all B&W. I phoned  the Melbourne Musuem back in 1981 and asked about cuffs in their collection. The curator sent a few pages from the catalogue as they had no cuffs at all.

Great stuff, Paul! Thank you for sharing that with the group!
-Richard Knip-

Paul

Thanks very much for sharing this catalog with us. It is the most extensive early Hiatt catalog I have ever seen.

Matt

PaulJDavies wrote:I've attached a PDF of a 1904 Hiatt's Catalogue for anyone interested. Hopefully you can access the PDF?
Paul

Awesome! Here’s some stuff from the sphinx magazine from around 1906 to 1908








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Way to go Arioch, those are great! Did you pick up on that exceedingly rare 1907 J. Malcolm come along on the wall in the first photo?

Spencer

ssbaldwin wrote:Way to go Arioch, those are great! Did you pick up on that exceedingly rare 1907 J. Malcolm come along on the wall in the first photo?

Spencer

I wish!!!


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ssbaldwin wrote:Way to go Arioch, those are great! Did you pick up on that exceedingly rare 1907 J. Malcolm come along on the wall in the first photo?

Spencer

Check out the prices back then- I need a TARDIS and some cash from that time period


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Any there's a shiny new H key in the Lily.

unfortunately for access to PDF Tapatalk is engaged in extortion of registration in the interests of special services

I'd be happy to email it to you - if I knew who you were.

PaulJDavies wrote:Any there's a shiny new H key in the Lily.

I was hoping someone would see that!


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PaulJDavies wrote: ↑

Apr 27, 2021

I'd be happy to email it to you - if I knew who you were.

When you find out, let Richard know, he hates anon's and calls them out. He might have missed this one (and a few others last month. SMH

LOL! Still upset about getting called out, I see. The use of anonymity only upsets me, when its being used to launch an attack against another member of the board. This person wasnt doing that. That were pointing out shortcomings of the platform's policies. Thanks for thinking of me though.   ; - )
-Richard Knip-

Thank you, Paul - for sharing this.

Do we know if ALL of these products were actually manufactured by Hiatt?

Items such as the grooming brushes, and leather-craft items (dog collars & whips).

....or might they have been "private labeled"  (sub-contracted out to an outside company)?

Hiatt Golf Clubs???  

Dear Richard,  tish tish  .  remember your drugs cause your moods swings and depression, don't take it out on me.

Joe Fox wrote: ↑

Apr 28, 2021

Thank you, Paul - for sharing this.

Do we know if ALL of these products were actually manufactured by Hiatt?

Items such as the grooming brushes, and leather-craft items (dog collars & whips).

....or might they have been "private labeled"  (sub-contracted out to an outside company)?

Hiatt Golf Clubs???  

Good question Joe. I think there was a fair bit of collaboration between manufacturers. For instance, we're pretty sure that Hiatt made handcuffs for Dowler. Dowler was a brass founder and most likely made the police whistles for Hiatt because Dowler were specialists. Nichols and Hiatt once co-own a foundry which might have cast their keys and lock tubes but I do not know if they were also casting brass. I see no reason why they could not. But I think each would have manufactured in their area of expertise and outsourced the rest, branding them as their own. In the early 19th century Hiatt did specialise in dog collars as well as felon irons. Paul

Thank you for sharing Paul!

I'm amazed by the very wide range of products Hiatt represented at the time. Restraints seem to be just a small part of the company's range , whereas dog accessoires was more dominating.  At what time did Hiatt get more focused in manufacturing and selling restraints?

Lars

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Apr 28, 2021

Thank you for sharing Paul!

I'm amazed by the very wide range of products Hiatt represented at the time. Restraints seem to be just a small part of the company's range , whereas dog accessoires was more dominating.  At what time did Hiatt get more focused in manufacturing and selling restraints?

Lars

Hiatt started off focused on restraints for people and animals and then diversified. Obviously there are more dogs than criminals and a bigger market world-wide. I would assume, like now, businesses had to pivot to supply what was needed. I would describe their catalogue as hardware. We collectors think of Hiatt as handcuff and leg iron makers, but they obviously made or sold a lot of different items. I'm sure someone else has a better idea of what they made in the 20th century. I prefer to concentrate on the 1800's.

Are there any PDFs or images of even older and later Hiatts catalogues? They would be really interesting to compare.