H. Milward & Sons labeled this model Kirby Whiting Hooks and printed its number on the box as Qual. 3382. The label also reads Tinned, Ringed.
Size 2 is the only size documented. The entry rests on one box lid and photographs of one hook, with caliper measurements for the size E.
Photographic record
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IMG-1Milward — New entry — image 1 Lid of a box of Kirby Whiting Hooks with the green label and Iron Arm trademark. The size, 2, is written by hand after the printed No.
2How to identify it
The lid carries a green paper label with a printed border. The upper right block reads H. MILWARD & SONS, then the town and England, then Qual. 3382. KIRBY WHITING HOOKS runs across the center in bold capitals, with Tinned, Ringed in italic below.
The trademark is a line drawing of a bent arm with a banded cuff, the hand raised, resting on a striped bar. Trade Mark is printed beside it and The Iron Arm beneath. The bottom line reads 100 No., with the size added by hand, and MADE IN ENGLAND at the right.
The box label prints Tinned P. The photographed hook is silver-grey with darker mottled patches, heaviest at the eye and bend, consistent with a tinned surface I.
The documented size 2 specimen has a straight shank of round section with no ridges, kinks or bait-holder cuts P. The point tapers smoothly to a fine tip in line with the lower arc of the bend P.
Shank proportion is nearest the Special Long group in the catalog comparison I.
Complete, with eye, shank, bend, point and barb present and no deformation or break visible. Surface speckling and darker patches are present, and fibres cling near the point.
Packaging condition
Good — moderate wear, legible
Wear
lid, left of label and a narrower strip right of label: Transparent adhesive tape strip across the lid, yellowed, with a lifted, wrinkled torn edge at lower left. LBL-9
Wear
lid, left of label: Brown stain patches on the lid, the largest at mid-left, with smaller orange-brown spotting near the left edge. LBL-10
Wear
lid, left edge and lower left corner: Frayed, fibrous abrasion along the left edge and worn, scuffed lower left corner; general toning and soiling across the lid. LBL-11
Wear
lid label surface: Scattered small dark specks and short fibres on the green paper; one small orange-brown speck near the printed word Trade. LBL-12
Box lid: the left edge is frayed and the lower left corner scuffed, with general toning and brown stains. A yellowed tape strip crosses the lid at the left, with a lifted, wrinkled edge, and a narrower strip runs at the right. The label is complete and legible, with small dark specks and fibres on its surface. The hook is not shown inside the box; the hook photographs are attributed to this box by file name.
What the label says
LBL-1 trademark · lid label, upper left, beside arm illustration fromIMG-1
Trade
Mark
LBL-2 printed · lid label, left, under arm illustration fromIMG-1
The Iron Arm
LBL-3 printed · lid label, upper right block fromIMG-1
H. MILWARD & SONS,
REDDITOH, England.
Qual. 3382.
LBL-4 printed · lid label, center, large bold capitals fromIMG-1
KIRBY WHITING HOOKS
LBL-5 printed · lid label, below center, italic fromIMG-1
Tinned, Ringed
LBL-6 printed · lid label, bottom line, left fromIMG-1
100 No.
LBL-7 printed · lid label, bottom line, right fromIMG-1
MADE IN ENGLAND
LBL-8 handwritten · lid label, bottom line, directly after printed No. fromIMG-1
2 (blue-black ink, written over the green label paper and the lower border)
Trademark
Black line illustration of a bent arm with a banded cuff, the hand raised toward the upper right, resting on a horizontal striped bar at the base. Trade Mark is printed to its right and The Iron Arm below.
As entered on the specimen record
Trade
Mark
The Iron Arm
H. MILWARD & SONS,
REDDITOH, England.
Qual. 3382.
KIRBY WHITING HOOKS
Tinned, Ringed
100 No.
MADE IN ENGLAND
Layout
Green paper label with a printed border on the box lid, slightly skewed. The trademark drawing is at upper left with Trade Mark beside it and The Iron Arm beneath. The maker and number block is at upper right. The hook name runs across the center, with Tinned, Ringed below it. The bottom line holds the count, No. and MADE IN ENGLAND.
Typeface
KIRBY WHITING HOOKS in large bold capitals. Tinned, Ringed in italic. Maker name in capitals. The town name is transcribed as it reads in the delivered image; its seventh letter appears as O.
Later marks
2, in blue-black ink after the printed No. on the lid label, written over the green label paper and the lower border.
Matches: Bend, Wire, Gap, Eye, Eye Orient. +5 moreDiffers: Shank: Special Long vs 4X Long; Finish: Tinned vs Bright / Uncoated Steel; Application: Other, Bait vs Bait +3 more
Matches: Bend, Wire, Gap, Eye, Eye Orient. +5 moreDiffers: Shank: Special Long vs 4X Long; Finish: Tinned vs Bronzed; Application: Other, Bait vs Bait, Saltwater +2 more
Matches: Bend, Shank, Eye, Eye Orient., Forging +3 moreDiffers: Wire: Fine (1X Fine) vs Extra-Fine; Gap: Narrow vs Standard; Point: Standard / Spear vs Hollow Point +4 more
Matches: Bend, Wire, Gap, Eye, Eye Orient. +4 moreDiffers: Shank: Special Long vs 4X Long; Point: Standard / Spear vs Superior; Finish: Tinned vs Bronzed +4 more
Matches: Bend, Shank, Eye, Forging, Shank Feat. +1 moreDiffers: Wire: Fine (1X Fine) vs Standard; Gap: Narrow vs Standard; Eye Orient.: Straight / Inline vs Turned Down +6 more
