Help With These S & W Handcuffes

[The Mighty S&W]

This past Sept. - Oct. 2021 at the S&WCA symposium in Tulsa, OK. for our 50th / 51st Anniversary, my display was titled Smith & Wesson Handcuff History. This display covered the history of S&W manufacturing handcuffs for the Peerless Handcuff Company beginning in 1914 through November of 1940. Then S&W logo handcuffs manufactured from 1952 through present day. The display was 12 (6 foot x 30 inch) tables, total of 72 feet in length. The display included handcuffs & restraints, contracts between S&W and Peerless, patents, advertisements, product brochures, handcuff cases and S&W handcuff printing blocks used in advertisements & product brochures. I believe there was 150+ handcuffs in the display.
I have been working on a new eBook that will cover the contents of this display that I hope to finish sometime this year.
Dave

Very interesting stuff. I honestly hadn’t a clue that anyone collected the handcuffs. I suppose when you work around something everyday for so many years, it just becomes so commonplace to you that you simply don’t give it a second thought. With that in mind, perhaps a young me should have taken a job tending bar in a brothel. Hehehehe!

Fantastic looking collection. I will be learning more about these things as a result of this thread.