Spear & Jackson saw questions

[homesy135]

Are my Google skills wanting or is there a dearth of S&J saw information on the net?

I have the green covered "The Handsaw Catalogue Collection." This publication has a few pages about S&J saws (from 1915) at the end of the book and mentions the S&J brands. How are these ranked in terms of quality?

Double Mermaid and Mermaid appear to be a premium line, Leapfrog, perhaps a notch under the Mermaids based on catalogue price. The Goblin saws appears to be their cheaper line. There are John Cockerill saws that appear to encompass a few models - Aetna, Sovereign. Aetna appears to be a sub-brand on it own, too. Technical, Lloyd Davies, S&J (itself)............................(Marketing confusion to rival a contemporary mobile phone contract!)

Has anybody produced a descriptive list of S&J brands or published a web page showing models, etches and medallions? Did S&J regularly produce and publish tool catalogues?

[TobyC]

I have looked relentlessly, and no!

I wish there was something like the disstonianinstitute for Spear & Jackson but no one has done that, unfortunately.

[TobyC]

They did print catalogs, you see them for sale occasionally, but not very often.

[code4pay]

We should start one, a wiki where contributors could post information would be a good starting point.

[Scribbly Gum]

A S&J Institute page with models listed would be a great asset.
You may have seen the .pdf document on the History of Saws here:
There is also
THIS

S&J produced some fine saws indeed.
Cheers
SG

[pmcgee]

I started collecting links together a while back ... there is information collected here, but I'm not 100% sure it is the main thread.
Cheers,
Paul

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