The National Coin Album Binders, Invented by John Schade, The National Blank Book Co., Date of Logos
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Formerly I made this collage of the logos inside of the Large Binders of Wayte Raymond National Coin Albums
And more recently, I figured out how to determine the manufacturing date of the binders by looking at the National logo that’s stamped inside the front cover of the coin album binders. I looked up the logo’s legal documents at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website and also found dated advertisements which included their current logo/trademark in the ads of magazines like Office Appliances which are available online at https://archive.org/details/sim_opd_1920-03_31_3/page/139/mode/1up?q=National+Blank+Book+Company 
I still need to determine if there are identifying sub-variants of the Art Deco style logo that’s was used from the end of 1930 to 1963.
But here’s how I was able to piece together the dates of the logos, by researching the National Blank Book Company.
I researched the logos and found they were the trademark of The National Blank Book Company. Wayte Raymond bought the Patent rights of the coin album pages/boards with the clear slides in them from Martin L. Beistle, but instead of using the covers that Beistle had been using, he upgraded the albums by using the patented Ring Binders invented by John Schade at the National Blank Book Company. Below is an Excerpt from the book “National Blank Book Company / Through One Hundred Years 1843-1943 1st Edition” that describes the ring binder and mechanism that John Schade Invented
And here is one of the patents involved
And here is a picture of Mr. Schade along with some other executives of the company
His son Frank Stanley Schade followed in his father’s footsteps and also was in R&D at the company. He did a lot of work to make the binder material strong, and even patented some of the materials and called it “Stanite” after his middle name Stanley
With the fathers binder ring mechanisms and the sons binder materials, the company was able to make it through the depression with the creative marketing of innovative custom binders which is what Wayte Raymond used for the National Coin Album covers. Here’s info from the same book describing the custom “Special Order” products
The company also helped the war effort in WWII and stopped making binders for a while to focus on making gun parts
Well, that’s enough for tonight. Tomorrow I’ll show some interesting details from some of the binders themselves
Mr_Spud
Comments
That is a nice collection of albums! Looks like they stack very well!
wow, great that the cover box is strong enough to support many above it. I am assuming many of those have coins.