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PS & W Co. Antique Animal Trap Pre- 1918 No. 1 1/2 Cast
$ 79.17
- Description
- Size Guide
Description
PS & W Co. Antique Animal Trap Pre- 1918 No. 1 1/2 CastAll Parts Complete
Trap is 9" long (not including chain)
Jaws of trap are 5" in diameter
Chain is 24" long
Peck, Smith Manufacturing was one of the first companies in America to mass-produce steel traps, beginning roughly five years before Oneida Community entered the business.
The company, chartered in 1848, made metalworking equipment and also a line of traps in sizes No. 1, No. 1-1/2, and No. 2. The cast pans featured P.S. & Co. and the size number in raised letters.
By 1870, P.S. & Co. had merged with two other Connecticut firms, S. Stow Manufacturing and Roys and Wilcox, to form the renamed Peck, Stow and Wilcox Co., which offered the P. S. & W line of traps, described in an 1878 catalog as “Oneida Pattern Steel Traps.” They were made in six sizes from No. 0 underspring up to a No. 4 double longspring. By 1890, the cast pans featured P. S. & W. Co. in a broad circular depression with the size number in the center.