| Title |
Browning Arms Company Collection, Box 009, Folder 02 |
| Creator |
Browning, John Val; Goddard, Grant F.; Browning, Marriner Bigelow; Frost, G. E.; Comeaux, C. Stewart; Coleman, R. H.; McFarlane, Charles; Browning, Marriner A.; Ormsbee, A. G.; Babson, A. C.; United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Invention Incorporated; Winchester Repeating Arms Company; Browning, Val A., 1895-1994; Ellis, Douglas B.; Browning Arms Company; Askins, Charles; Sheldon, H. P.; Lindsey, Theodore Clay; FN (Firm : Belgium); Woodson, William T.; Prutzman, John M.; Rafter, John R.; Hume, James P.; Pattishall, Beverly W.; Levy, Beatrice; Brearley, J. A.; Russell, John E.; Griffith, G. H.; Browning, Matthew S. |
| Contributors |
J. M. & M. S. Browning Company; Winchester Repeating Arms Company; Browning Arms Company; Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute; Remington Arms Company; Federal Cartridge Corporation; The Poly Choke Company; United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Outdoor Life; Lindsey, Prutzman And Just; Lindsey, Theodore Clay; Rogers and Woodson; Rafter, John R.; Wilkinson, Huxley, Byron & Hume; United States. Department of State. Bureau of Foreign Commerce; Rogers and Reed; United States. Bureau of Customs |
| Description |
Primarily correspondence from Marriner Bigelow Browning to colleagues, such as Val Allen Browning and Douglas B. Ellis, regarding manufacturing and design matters. Additionally it is consistently discussed with Theodore Clay Lindsey in respect to legal matters such as their trademarks. |
| Subject |
Firearms industry and trade--United States; Firearms industry and trade--Utah; Browning Arms Company; Business enterprises--Utah--Ogden--History; Fabrique Nationale automatic rifles; Remington Arms Company; Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute; Winchester Repeating Arms Company; United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Firearms--Design and construction |
| Digital Publisher |
Digitized by Special Collections & University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University. |
| Date Digital |
2026-04 |
| Date |
1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951 |
| Medium |
correspondence; notes (documents); documents; ephemera; newspaper clippings; publications (documents); financial records; legal records |
| Spatial Coverage |
Belgium; New York City, New York, United States; New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States; Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States; Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States; Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States; Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States; St. Louis, Missouri, United States; Washington, D.C., United States; Ames, Major County, Oklahoma, United States; Falls Church, Virginia, United States; Herstal, Liege, Wallonia, Belgium; Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States; Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States; Richmond, Virginia, United States |
| Type |
Text |
| Conversion Specifications |
Archived TIFF images were scanned with an Epson Expression 13000XL scanner. Digital images were reformatted in Photoshop. |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes; please credit Special Collections & University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University. For further information:  |
| Sponsorship/Funding |
Funding generously provided by the Val A. Browning Charitable Foundation. |
| Source |
Browning Arms Company Collection, MS492, Box 9, Folder 2, Special Collections & University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University. |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6c1g19f |
| Setname |
wsu_ba |
| ID |
184764 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6c1g19f |
| Title |
Page 158 |
| OCR Text |
Show we we wite An elaboration of the actually Browning Arms Company. registered trade-mark (portrait form) is noted on circulars, Letterheads and envelopes, shipping stickers for shotguns and other products, plug adaptor envelope, mailing sack for parts, instructions for gun blueing, shotgun instruction statements of account, credit memoranda, plug use — booklets, invoices, instructions, brochure meiling envelopes, vouchers, This literature is used in Browning Arms payroll cheeks, Company transactions, | The elaborated The words Company” "Reg. U.S. except omitted of (No a" status Office" on the Biusing emblen, the with cases all in appear Gun Instructions, Blueing the except: above, the all in on omitted Pat. omitted same the is emblem "rms Instructions on the Credit Memorandum Vouchers, payroll cheeks ; | ascertain to their on printed matter consists shown on the patent: The elaboration used, as above mentioned, of the following modification of the form ADDITIONS 1. on either portrait and “Browning” Portrait moved out of the is a slight overlapping. "VW" in Insertion between "Arms Company.” of portrait, | of the side Artistically designed lines above the word “Browning.” and words MODIFICATIONS: Style there of is lettering usually Characteristic istic block "PORTRAIT" a inoludes inserted block letters in solid line, double a yellow letters used, In Browning. or between orange (Patent patent color, shows there which character~ black.) TRADEMARK Elaborations appsared first in 1931 unattended by “Registered No indication of why elaboration was U.S. Patent Office," for them is found, ion authorizat no found: made are Elaboration appeared in 1932 with "Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.” and No authorization for the move is discovered in a since then. review of the executive correspondence with extensive rather St. Louis office during 1931 - 32, 3. Certain variations of drawn below, Catalog the and elaborated trade-mark are crudely consumer circular files are incomplete. |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
wsu_ba |
| ID |
184922 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6c1g19f/184922 |