Boys Rival Balls United States Rubber Co. Wheeled Box for Shoes | ||
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Posted 2 years ago
ho2cultcha
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I have no idea why it says 'Boys Rival Balls' on one side. It's a beautiful, large, wheeled box - early 20th c or late 19th c from Portland Oregon. One of my favorite boxes now!
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Maybe they were samples of early sneakers for ball games? They have the color "White" printed on the side and a list of sizes they came in, so maybe the box was used to deliver and reused
or stored in the gym?
thank you maryh1956. i think that the box was used to deliver the sneakers. very early for sneakers too!
this is interesting from wikipedia: 'By 1892, there were many rubber manufacturing companies in Naugatuck, Connecticut, as well as elsewhere in Connecticut. Nine companies consolidated their operations in Naugatuck to become the United States Rubber Company. One of the nine, Goodyear's India Rubber Glove Mfg. Co. (named Litchfield Rubber Co. until 1847) – which manufactured rubber gloves for telegraph linemen – was the only company in which Charles Goodyear, inventor of the rubber vulcanization process, is known to have owned stock.
From 1892 to 1913, the rubber footwear divisions of U.S. Rubber manufactured their products under 30 different brand names, including the Wales-Goodyear Shoe Co. The company consolidated these footwear brands under one name, Keds, in 1916, and were mass-marketed as the first flexible rubber-sole with canvas-top "sneakers" in 1917.' apparently, this was one of the first 12 companies listed in the Dow. and it was government owneds??