Manufacturer McClary Manufacturing

McClary's Match Holder

Credit LineGift of Jane Bondy, London, Ontario, 1990.

Object number1990.015.025

Label TextThe McClary Manufacturing Company made this match holder. In 1852, John McClary joined his brother Oliver's tinsmith business, launched in 1847. As J. & O. McClary, they soon added a foundry and produced “all kinds of stoves, tinners’ supplies, pressed japanned and spliced wares.” They formed the McClary Manufacturing Company in 1871 and produced stoves, agricultural implements, as well as tin, copper, and pressed metal wares.

NameHolder, Match