William Patch Dickey at W.P. Dickey & Co., Bangor, Maine

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William Patch Dickey at W.P. Dickey & Co., Bangor, Maine

William Patch Dickey is standing next to the desk in his prodigiously stocked hardware store on Broad Street in Bangor, Maine. Among the items shown for sale are:

H & B pocket knives made by William L. Humason, Sr., who founded the Humason & Beckley Manufacturing Company of New Britain, Connecticut, in 1853. The company produced fine pocket cutlery, corkscrews and other hardware.

Kerosene lamps of every description – hanging from the ceiling
Chamois – hanging from the ceiling
Many varieties of thermometers hanging in a row from the ceiling
Shotguns and other knives
Feather dusters
String and a cast iron string holder
A model of the Eiffel tower
A small, portable steam engine, possibly a toy
Chain and twine
A beautiful wind-up alarm clock with a bell on top
Cow bells
Pratt & Lambert’s “Faultless Varnishes"
Boxes of sleigh bells and shaft bells
Glass.

Mr. Dickey’s female clerk, carefully dressed in an apron with her hair put up in a bun, is standing at the desk. Items seen on the desk are:

W.P. Dickey & Co. invoices neatly held by a painted tin box stenciled “Bill-Heads"
Glass Ink pots
Standard Liquid Glue
A leather-bound ledger
Steel-nibbed pens
Rubber stamps

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