WWI USMC First Aid Packet (Bauer & Black 1916) & M1910 Carrier (P.B.&CO. 1917)

Description

WWI USMC / Army  First-Aid Packet (
“B
auer & Black 1916
”
) and it’s
M1910 Carrier
(
“
P.B. & CO. 1917
”).
*****
M1910 CARRIER:
— The LIGHT KHAKI
M1910 CARRIER
from the "
PLANT
BROTHERS and COMPANY"
is in
NEAR MINT
condition and dated “
1917.
” This was made either right before  President Wilson's "
War Message"
to Congress and our
Declaration of War, April 2, 1917
— or shortly thereafter!
— There is a bold legible contractor’s stamp on the underside of the Flap
“
P.B. & CO. 1917
”
and
below
it
the
Inspector’s
initials
, “T.M.”
— The finish on the two
Blackened BRASS PRESS SNAPS
is
PERFECT
. On the underside of the bright brass is stamped,
“
CARR’S / PAT. ‘13
”.
—
ZERO
holes, fraying, loose stitching, stains, personalized markings, or corrosion!
— The Brass
M1910
BELT
HOOK
Is unbent and in superb shape. It is attached with a Brown
WEB
TAB
.
*****
FIRST
AID
PACKET 1916:
— The intact pre-war First-Aid Packet is embossed,
“FIRST AID PACKET - U.S. ARMY / CONTRACT NOV. 2-1916 / BAUER & BLACK / CHICAGO, U.S.A. / TO OPEN - PULL RING / PATENT APPLIED FOR”
— This is a soldered
BRASS 2-piece CASE
that opens by means of
a
“PULL RING” TAPE.
— Traces of the original
BROWN
PAINT
remains on the uniformly dented soft
BRASS
CASE
.
— Never opened! ZERO breaks!
*****
HISTORY OF BAUER & BLACK:
Bauer & Black, Inc.
was founded in 1893 by Louis Bauer, Alexander Bauer, Gustav T. Bauer, and Stephen H. Black in Chicago, Illinois.
Its industry was surgical appliances and its headquarters remained in Chicago, Illinois.
Acquired by the
Kendall Company
in 1928, it
was purchased in 1976 by the
Becton-Dickinson Company
. Since 2009,
Bauer & Black
has been a division of the  3M COMPANY
*****
HISTORY OF CARR FASTENER CORPORATION"
he Carr Fastener Company of Cambridge Massachusetts started manufacturing fasteners for automobile tops and side curtains for open bodied vehicles at it new Gage Ave north location in 1920.
After a merger in 1928 the company became United-Carr Fastener and it remained in this location until the 1960's when all production was moved to a new Stoney Creek location.
The building still stands today as Trotters Auto Service.
*****
United-Carr.
...began as the Carr Fastener Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1912.  Fred S. Carr was a carriage-maker who came up with a unique fastener for attaching canvas to carriages.  He marketed these as "Dot" fasteners and they quickly became standard on horse-drawn and, later, horseless carriages.
The company went on to develop many different kinds of "snap" and other garment fasteners, manufacturing them as well as conventional buttons.  They made uniform buttons for the Canadian forces in World War I, and also produced the socket-and-stud fastener marketed as the "Lift-the-Dot" that was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1916.
In 1929, they merged with the U.S. Fastener of South Boston to become United-Carr.