Greetings,

Without getting into any speculation regarding the source of
the names for Disston's second quality lines, as listed by
Pete Taran:

No. 00: Jackson
No. 0:  T.Taylor
No. 1:  C. Bishop
No. 3:  Brown's

I thought it might be interesting to simply list the dates for
these Disston models, along with the dates for firms with
names which might suggest Disston was trading on their name
recognition. All information taken from Erv. Schaffer's
_Hand-Saw Makers of North America_.

1813-      Wm. Jackson & Co  Monroe NY (short lived?)
1860       Taylor Brothers    Philadelphia, PA (one year?)
1865-1872  I.S. & C.N Brown  Providence, RI
1865-1936  Brown's model (Disston)
1865-1923  Jackson model (Disston)
1865-1923  C. Bishop model (Disston)
1870-1871  Henry C. Brown & Co.  Baltimore, MD
1882-1899  George H. bishop & Co. Cincinnati, OH
1887-1923  T. Taylor model (Disston)

If Disston was trading on George Bishop's name when he introduced
the C. Bishop line, he was amazingly prescient. In two cases,
he would have been trading on names of short-lived firms which
had long been out of business. Only in the case of the Brown's
model might there be any question, and I think it's arguable.

I don't see much of a pattern in this data to indicate that
Disston was trading on name recognition of other firms with
his second quality lines.

Don McConnell
Knox County, Ohio