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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => General Discussion - Model & Toy Steam Engines – Stirling Cycle – Flame Lickers – Small Antique Originals => Topic started by: Nuvolari on September 17, 2021, 03:01:31 pm
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True Gil, and I personally thank her for making that effort, it's to important for not being available anymore…
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Hi Danny, It was good to see Don's daughter had re-prints made. I got 2 of them a few months back. It is a great resource re Empire. This was an effort spearheaded I believe by Joe Appleget who helped convince Deborah to make the copies. Don was a friend and a very good historian, not just for our hobby but for his home town of Hilton, NY where he was the official historian
Gil
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There is little written on the Metal Ware Cooperation "Empire"
The only one well known and best book on the subject is written by Don Stilson.
But that book was for many years not available anymore, unless you could lay your hands on a secondhand one.
And since Don Stilson is deceased, the chance of seeing a reprint was very slim.
Buy now, the daughter Deborah Castle, issued a reprint of her fathers book, that you can buy for 25$.
And I think that's a fair prise.
You can mail her at castleda@prodigy.net, and place your order direct with her.
So, for those among you who where longing for this book for so long, this is your chance.
There is also a 1935 digitalized free full catalog on the net:
https://archive.org/details/EmpireEducationalToys1935/mode/2up
Have a look at it it's super nice done
Cheers,
Danny