eBay delivered another H and H Master Chef artifact. This time we have a price sign that was never marked or even folded and waiting for us in New Braunfels, Texas. The sign is made of heavy paper (~20lbs), 7in x 12in, and printed with red ink.
A second sitting with the Draves family, and the deer-mount patent we’d only heard about finally has a number: Edward W. Menger’s US 2,003,896, ‘Horn Mount’ ...
Tim Draves sent corrections that resolved a generation: the H&H Mengers are grandchildren — not great-grandchildren — of Menger Hotel founder William A. ...
The Menger family genealogy resolved across three generations, William A. Menger’s full biography documented, cause-of-death confirmations for two Hoffmanns,...
The first edition of the TGCA’s Antique Arms Annual, published by S.P. Stevens of San Antonio — the same Stevens documented as the probable H&H Coffee bi...
