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Hawaii: Where Made

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1922 Type 1:                                 Hibbard

1922 Type 2:                                 ?

1923-25:                                     Kittle (also 1927-33, 1936-40)

1926 Type 1, 1935:                           Grimm

1926 Type 2, 1927-33, 34 Type 2, 36 Type 1:  ? (Kittle?)

1934 Type 1, 1936 Type 2, 1937 Type 1:       ?

1937 Type 2, 1938, 1939 Type 2:              ? (Kittle?)

1939 Type 1:                                 ?

1941 Type 1, 1942 Type 2:                    ? (Kittle?)

1940, 1941 Type 2, 1942 Type 1:              Norton

1946:                                        ? (Kittle?)

1947-50:                                     Norton

1951-60:                                     Screw Machine

1961-68:                                     Irwin-Hodson

1969-75:                                     Metal Stamping

1976-80 Type 1, 1981-91 Type 1:              Polyvend

1979-80 Type 2, 1985-91 Type 2:              Irwin-Hodson

1991-on Type 1:                              Irwin-Hodson

1995-99 Type 2:                              Polyvend

 

Note:  The contract was awarded to the following companies but it is believed

they were local agents who subcontracted the plates to actual manufacturing

companies on the mainland.  For example, American Factors won the contract for

1923 but plates were actually made by Kittle.

 

American Factors, Ltd.   1923, 1927-28, 1930, 1932-33, 1936-39, 1945 W/S, 1949

Charles R. Frazier & Son 1934-35, 1941, 1943 W/S