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Spring Action Nutcracker & 6 Pickers, HMQ Henry Marcus Quackenbush Nickel Plated
Condition note:
All items in very good condition with only light signs of age or usage.
Item description:
Complete set of 6x picker sticks and a nutcracker.
All made by Henry Marcus Quackenbush (HMQ), New York, USA.
Thought to be nickel plated (unverified).
Year of manufacturer unknown.
Henry Marcus Quackenbush (April 27, 1847 – September 8, 1933), commonly called "H.M.", was an American inventor and industrialist who founded the H.M. Quackenbush Company in Herkimer, New York. His company was widely known for its air rifles and for the invention of the metal, spring-jointed nutcracker.
In 1913, Quackenbush invented the spring-jointed nutcracker and a nutpick, designs still in wide use today. Over the years, his company produced over 200 million, and metal nutcrackers seen today stamped with the hallmark "HMQ" or "QBC" were those made by the Quackenbush. The company stopped making air guns in the 1930s, but continued making nutpicks and nutcrackers.
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