Alemite later model emblems

What years did the last sytle cabinets have these round Alemite badges on their doors vs the cutout style? As well as how many were there?

Those are questions that I do not have a solid answers for. But, below is what I have gathered about them over these years.

 
 

You can see that the two emblems have different oriented mounting studs.

Almost half of the trim-topped cabinets that I have seen, without badges, possess 4 mounting holes in their doors. This would allow the company to use either of the two emblems.

Below are what the other half of the cabinets mounting holes look like. Just two vertical ones for the cutout A badge.

This non-round A emblem is present on all lower workbenches for the whole run from 1948-55.

The Round A door badge is present in a few ads in ‘49 and ‘50, But all other ads show the other style even over these same years.

 
 

Out of nearly 400 images of these cabinets - 35% less cabinets had the round circle than the A alone. These quantities would roughly mean the round emblem cabinet was produced for 3 years, and the other cutout style for close to 5 years.

My current guess would be that the Round emblem was in use from 1948-50 and the other from 1951-55, with the 4 mounting holes lingering just past 1951.


As door badges can go missing, the round ones are more readily available, because they are on the lubers produced through all these years.