Vintage Dunlap Tools - My collection / Time Capsule - ALL DUNLAP 🇺🇸

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Vintage Dunlap Tools
Here is my personal  collection of Dunlap Tools.
Every piece is made and marked by Dunlap.
Most of the tools are made in USA, some are made in Germany.
everything pictured including the Dunlap Toolbox.
Dunlap brand was available from late 1930s to 1950's. So all these tools are from that period.
In my experience most Dunlap tools were of equal or near equal quality to Sears main brand Craftsman.
They were able to sell them cheaper by not offering the lifetime warranty.
Information about Dunlap brand:
A brand of Sears, Roebuck & Co., made by Atlas Press, Central Specialty (later King-Seeley), Double A Products, and others. The Dunlap brand first appeared in the spring 1937 catalog, for hand tools. In 1941 it replaced the earlier Companion brand on machinery. It was reportedly named after Thomas M. Dunlap, the head buyer in the hardware department of Sears Roebuck.
Dunlap was a Sears economy brand, introduced in 1941 to replace their "Companion" brand.  The Dunlap brand was discontinued in the late 1950's, with the "Sears" brand taking over.  Interesting, in the late 1980's the "Companion" brand once again appeared, supplanting the "Sears" name for the company's cheaper line of tools.
Dunlap was a Sears & Roebuck store brand for tools. The story is that Tom Dunlap assumed control of the hardware division of Sears in 1937. The goal was to furnish Sears customers a lower cost alternative to the Craftsman brand. Tom was determined to provide an attractive as well as quality tool. This was done through strict quality controls and the use of proven tool companies. There was never a Dunlap factory. All tools were contracted through Sears from companies such as Danielson or Moore Drop Forge.
No discussion of Craftsman tools would be complete without at least some mention of the Dunlap brand, a sister brand used for a line of economy tools. The Dunlap brand was supposedly named after Tom Dunlap, the manager of the Sears hardware division from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Sears filed a trademark application for the Dunlap brand in 1938, and the trademark was issued as #369,614 on August 1, 1939.
The first use date was listed as January 23, 1937.
Dunlap tools began appearing in the Sears catalogs in the 1938-1939 Fall and Winter edition, and often the new brand was used for tools that had previously been offered under the Merit or Fulton brands. Dunlap tools continued to be offered at least into the late 1950s.