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Fig. 4 Damage to the side rail is a common
�nding with cases bearing this hinge.
Fig. 5 A Wadhams case without damage
is a fortunate �nding.
Fig. 6 �e previously identi�ed Wadhams Company label.
Fig. 7 �e previously identi�ed Kingsley Parker label.
Figs. 8, 9, 10 �ree new labels of the Wadhams manufacturing Company.
Figs. 11, 12 Two new labels promoting the Kinsley Parker hinge.
three more labels by the Wadhams Company (Figs. 8, 9 & 10) and two more touting
the KP hinge (Figs. 11 &12).
�ere is no way that we can determine the chronological order in which these labels
were used and it is more likely than not that multiples were used at the same time.
�is hinge, although highly unsatisfactory, exempli�es the research that one company
expended in its attempt to �nd a better product than the competition it faced from the
multiple other �rms also producing thermoplastic cases.
Fig. 9
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Fig. 10
Fig. 11 Fig. 12
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