We added a new spice to the collection from Euless, Texas. This 1.5oz Nutmeg tin has some bug holes but the top is still shiny.
The Cinnamon is smaller at 1oz but in better shape.
We’re waiting for a Paprika Tin to go with a barrel lid we found at the factory.
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...
