GuideToAntiqueAndVintageFasteners

senior employee that had no knowledge of the machine. The point to this is
simple. BOSTITCH invented what is probably the first electric stapler and they
have no history of it. Something like that is a selling point and good for
advertisement. The year was 1937. A patent had been approved and
manufacturing has begun. The only reference to electric staplers can be found
on line is that, “ they began to be produced in the mid 1950’s.”
Overall, my collection numbers in the hundreds. I often find another example
that I will need to add before my collection is complete. Truth be known, I will
never complete my collection.
Collecting is but a small part of the hobby. Research has its own reward.
Discovering one fact that leads to another and another and those facts need to
be researched.
In the mid 1990’s the only way to obtain a copy of a patent was to go to the
patent office. It wasn’t for a few more years that patents were made available
from the patent office on line. It only took a short time to obtain the necessary
programs to gain access to their vast files and more information became
available.
Over the past 15 years I have operated two web sites, The Stapler Exchange
and Mystaplers.com. My newsletter “ADHERE THIS” was also instrumental in
getting the word out and then came the responses. Collectors, the curious and
family members of those responsible for the staplers started to come in.
Curtis A. Scaglione