Inspection Stamp on chair

Here's something neat. Underneath a chair from like the 1920s, there is a cool tag with a State of New York Department of Labor Bedding Division Inspection Stamp.

Question: who paid the value of the stamp? Did the inspector have to pay every time he inspected something?

 

Hotwheelsearl, I'm guessing you have already done your research on this company but . . . I found the following information:

"1910: First manufacturing plant (Picker-Stick and Novelty Company) which became the Liberty Chair Company in 1912. Liberty Chair changed its name to Liberty Furniture Company in 1975."

I have included the following only because it is "interesting":

"1917: First electricity in Liberty. The Liberty Chair Company furnished the first electricity for the town. The company actually bought the dynamo in 1916 and sold it in 1922." (emphasis added)

http://www.liberty-nc.com/index.asp...7584-AEE4-4AF6-BEBC-74882C7DD021&Type=B_BASIC

 

No, the inspector inspected and placed the stamp.
The company would have had to pay to have the inspection done.

Not sure how that would have worked. Whether someone actually came and inspected hundreds of chairs in a day. Or if the prototype was inspected and the approval stamps purchased to be placed on the chairs.
Maybe someone can explain that.

 

Interesting that the chairs were made in North Carolina, but the inspection stamp is from New York. ??

 

I was wondering the same

 

I wonder whether it's like the PA Dept of Agriculture stamps on food (regardless of where from - or at least it used to be.)

 

New York was (and is) a strong union town - and items "imported" from other states had to meet NY standards. And of course there was a fee involved............

Reminds me of After 6:00 butcher shops in the grocery store..................because of union rules, butchers did not work after 6:00 in the evening or on Sundays. According to union rules, the store could not sell fresh meat if there was no butcher on duty, even if it had been cut before 6. Thus after 6 or on Sundays, the meat cases were covered with white or red butchers paper and you could not buy fresh meat................

 

Interesting. Raised in Calif.
Just new that Mom had to get to the meat department before they left for the day.
Didn't realize it was Union rules. Of course that makes sense now.

 

My family was involved in a number of businesses and there were union rules for just about everything in NY. And there was always a charge or fee of some sort involved. We even had to deal with a union sanctioned grave diggers strike for over a month once. Part of the union agreement was that no one but a union member could dig a hole in our cemeteries. There were so many coffins awaiting internment piling up that we had to close one funeral home just to store the coffins in. Because of course, there was a union rule that coffins containing remains could not be stored in a non-union site.

There was a union rule involving the fire hydrants as well, one that is still in effect here in Chicago..............painting a fire hydrant REQUIRES 3 people (all getting paid) on site. A supervisor, a painter and a relief painter - to complete the job in the event the painter gets injured..................while painting a fire hydrant.............3 feet tall.....................

There was a union "rule" in the garment workers that required five buttons and five button holes on the front of a man's shirt, NOT including the collar button.

We had some issues with migrant workers as well, every fall. Even though our farms were leased to tenant farmers, we arranged for the migrant pickers and harvesters en masse, and there were some really ridiculous rules there as well, but the rules did not really benefit the workers, they were money machines for the union bosses. The baskets used to pick cherries and pears had to meet certain standards - set by, and incidentally sold by, the unions. There had to be a special union rep on hand to grade potatoes. One of our tenants raised nothing but Long Island ducks, and there were a bunch of rules attached to slaughtering them as well. And what a coincidence............the (paid) Rabbi that we had on site to over see the Kosher end of things was best friends with the (paid) State inspector AND the (paid) union rep who was on site during slaughtering season...........

 

Hi Bakergma,
Just about everything had the Pennsylvania stamp on it since it was the MOST lax laws about everything. It was like the most ridiculous thing. Things that COULD not be sold anywhere else was stamped in PA so it was alright selling them in every other state. I remember a friend wanted to double the size of his home. He had all of these drawing done and engineers reports. When he went to the planning board the lady in charge pulled out a sheet with an empty six inch square box and said just draw the house as a square to fit inside the box. He did not need the 4 thousand dollars he spent on drawings. Just a box.
greg

 

It never occurred to me that the PA stamp was anything like that, Greg! The things you learn here.