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I'm still, and will always be, trying to make sense of Ideal mould markings. I'm specifically focusing on when the address markings were changed from New Haven, Connecticut, to Middlefield, Connecticut. The reason I'm asking is because Ideal was owned by Marlin from 1910 to around 1918 when Marlin sold Ideal to Phineas Talcott. The Lyman family subsequently purchased the company in 1925. My assumption is that the "New Haven" marked moulds are from the Marlin era since Marlin was in New Haven, and that would have been the logical mailing address for the company. Lymans information on this is sketchy at best. I remember pats of the "Red Barn" story, and am under the impression that the Ideal/Lyman factory was always in Middlefield Ct.
Um... help?
Um... help?