Newark’s M. Price Edge Tools
Newark, New Jersey
1847-1892
M. Price was a long-standing edge tool maker in Newark, New Jersey, from 1847 to 1892.
Newark was booming in the 1800s, rapidly expanding in both size and industrial importance to the United States. By 1860, Newark was the eleventh-largest city and the country’s biggest industrial-based city.
Not much information is available about Price, but it appears he focused on making hatchets and adzes over larger axes.
On October 16, 1892, the trade paper “Iron Age” announced that M. Price had sold his business to another local tool maker, L.A. Sayre (L.A. Sayre & Company).
Interestingly, an L.A. Sayre & Company advertisement from 1900 (8 years after the acquisition) still shows a hatchet labeled M. Price. Suggesting that Sayer may still have been leveraging the name strength of the M. Price Brand.
However, there is always a chance they were just reusing an existing illustration.
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