| 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 161 |
| OCR Text |
Show whe Browning Arms Company. An elaboration of the actually 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 booklets, statements of account, credit memoranda, plug use instructions, brochure mailing envelopes, vouchers, invoices, payroll checks. This literature is used in Browning Arms Company transactions, The elaborated "Arms emblem is the same in all the above, except: Company” omitted on the Blueing Instructions, The words U.S. Pat, Office" appear in all cases with omitted on the Gun Blueing Instructions omitted on the Credit Memorandum the consists "Reg, except (No 5 es of Vouchers, payroll cheeks to ascertain emblen, their status The elaboration used, of the modification following as above mentioned, of the on printed matter form shown on the patent: side of portrait, of the ADDITIONS 1, Artistically designed lines above the word "Browning." on either Insertion between "Arms Company.” and "Browning" portrait and words SLIGHT MODIFICATIONS: lL. Portrait moved out of the is a slight overlapping. "W" in Browning. In patent there Style of lettering includes a double line, between which there is usually inserted a yellow or orange color, Characteristic block letters used. (Patent shows character- istic PAST block letters in solid black.) USE "PORTRAIT" lL. Elaboraticns appeared first in 1931 unattended by "Registered U.S. Patent Office." No indication of why elaboration was made are found; no authorization for them is found, Elaboration TRADEMARK appeared in 1932 with "Reg. U.S. Pat. Off." and since then, No authorization for the move is discovered in a rather extensive review of the executive correspondence with St. Louis office during 1931 - 32, 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 |
184925 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6c1g19f/184925 |