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Wooden Square Handles

These are probably the must common of all the ice picks. The four flat sides are good surfaces for advertisements. Thus many of this type of ice picks were complimentary to customers. There are probably millions in use today and many still being produced.

	I don’t know of a better place to start than with an example of a square handled ice pick in the original sales packaging. On the front a price of 29 cents and at the bottom 1001 USES HOME & SHOP. On the back side of the packaging is the following markings – FLAT SIDES PREVENT ROLLING, HY-CARBON STEEL BLADE, USE TO CRACK ICE, PUNCH HOLES IN, CANS, LEATHER,PLASTIC,STOVE PIPE (for bolt assemble0, WOOD, METAL, PLASTER (for hanging pictures), REMOVE NAILS, GLASS, ETC. FROM TIRES MADE AND PRINTED IN U.S.A. GOODELL COMPANY ANTRIM, N. H. 03440
	L = 7-3/4”, Ice pick has a square handle and a protective cylinder cover for the tine. No markings. Wording on the package: ICE PICK WITH SHEATH DURABLE SOLID STEEL SHAFT PROTECTIVE WOODEN COVER FOR SAFETY USE AS A HOLE PUNCH FOR WOOD, LEATHER, ETC. HAROLD’S KITCHEN On the reverse: Harold Import Company, Inc. Lakewood, NJ 08701 Made in Taiwan



L = 8-3/8”, The four sides of the handle displays different advertisements and services.
L = 8-1/2”, JACK DANIEL’S on one side, ENJOY on another side, LYNCHBURG, TENN. EST & REG IN 1866 on another and OLD NO. 7 TENNESSEE WHISKEY the fourth side.
L = 8” No ferrule. No markings.		L = 7-3/4”, Long ferrule. No markings.
L = 8-5/8” No ferrule. Tapered with some serrations on the edges. No markings.		L = 7-7/8” No ferrule. “MOST MEN GET ONE WIFE BUT THE ICE MAN GETS HIS …… PICK.”
L = 8-3/8”, NATIONAL ICE Telephone No.8		L = 8-5/8”, CRYSTAL ICE CO., Phone 811
L = 7-7/8”, Bevel on the four edges. No markings.		L = 8-1/2”, The Southland Corp. green print on two opposite side and red on the other two sides.
L = 7-3/4”, NORTH FORT WORTH ICE CO., PHONE MA 4-3113		L = 8”, No ferrule, bevel on the four edges. No markings.
L = 4-1/2”, No ferrule. No markings. Gift from Birdie Black		L = 7-3/4”, Phone 54, Geyser Ice Company, WACO, TEXAS, on the handle. J.L. SUMMER, NEWARK, N.J. on the end of the ferrule.
L – 8-3/4”, GOODELL MADE IN USA stamped on the face of the ferrule.
Patent 1,739,457 Issued Dec. 10, 1929 L = 8-1/8’, WM. MATLOCK on one side, ICE on another, Phone 100 on the third side and can’t read the fourth side. Sheet metal formed around the pick at the ferrule for a cap lifter.
Patent No. 1,741,294 Issued Dec 31, 1929 L = 8-3/8”, Patented cap lifter attached at the ferrule.		L = 9” (top), 9-3/4” (bottom), slightly different cap lifters on end of handle, both cap lifters have three tabs. No markings.