August 10, 1921 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



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'Mt^XM&AH ANCIENT LGYRJ 



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A BIT OF HISTORY 



ECENT research discloses some altogether wonderful, 

 almost startling, facts relative to hoth Plywood and 

 Veneer. 



The principle is as old as the oldest records of mankind. 

 Egypt knew it and practiced it well. Old King Rameses 

 had his special household furniture and cabinets built of 

 Plywood as far back as the year 1250 B. C. 



I'he Hiiredii dii Roi, the most wonderful piece of furniture 

 in all history, was built of Plywood. Napoleon's private 

 w riting desk, carried with him on all his marches and called 

 his ''cahinet (ic canipn^fnc'' was made altogether of Plywood. 



These facts are interesting and instructixe, but not suffi- 

 cient. The modern, up-to-the-minute manufacturer w ants 

 something more — something in the present tense — some- 

 thing he can cash. And right here in New Albany, we have 

 it for him, in what we venture to claim is the most scientif- 

 ically exact Plyw ood Plant in America. We say this because 

 we believe it's true. Our best thought and (nir best efforts 

 have been spent to make it true. 



FOR instance, we might havebeen 

 content to follow the crowd in 

 making the old style face veneer 

 joint with the ordinary four bit cut- 

 ter head, but we wanted 'a better 

 joint. " We got it, and our customers 

 have blessed us ever since. 



We originated the si.xteen bit cut- 

 ur head for a \eneer jointer, and 

 Herman I'letcher, the old tool maker 

 cif Louisville, made our hrst head b\ 

 hand from solid tool steel, and the 

 joints made by this sixteen bit cutter 

 liead were real-for-sure joints — the 

 same kind of joints we are making 

 today. 



WE have originated many other 

 improvements of equal im- 

 portance to Plywood users, 

 which we are going to tell you about 

 from month to month. 



We want our customers and our 

 friends to know the real inside of 

 what we are doing in New Albany 

 to make Plywood the most exten- 

 sively useful and most highl\' service- 

 able product f)f its kind in the \\ (irld. 



This is the first modest introduc- 

 tion of our series of ctlnccitioiuil (tdvcr- 

 tiseiiunls on Plyuood to appear before 

 the year is out, right here in the 

 HardiV'Kul Record. 



New Albany Veneering Company 



P:. \'. KNIGHT PF,^"WO()I) SAJ>ES CO. 

 S,-\LKS AGKNTS NKW ALBANY, IND. 



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