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1. 
   dcarroll3000 | Jan 01, 2008 08:07pm | #1

   We use what are referred to as valve tags at work.  You can get them blank from

   http://www.mcmaster.com/ and stamp them yourself. McMaster also has numbered stamp sets.

    

   -D

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   Stuart | Jan 01, 2008 08:22pm | #2

   There are several sets of them for sale on eBay right now, go there and do a search on 'window tacks'.  Apparently they were made by a company named Acro.

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   dovetail97128 | Jan 01, 2008 08:28pm | #3

   WE had those on the screen of my house when I was a kid....
   Same disc and matching # on the storms as well.

   How I hated the dreaded announcement it was time to switch the storms for screen and vice versa. 3 story house, full screen porch , take them down , wash , get the replacements out of storage, wash and install, store the others till the next dreaded day coming in 6 months. And God help you if you damaged the screen fabric or broke the glass.

   Now if you can find an old fashioned hardware store in a part of the country that used to use storms and screens you might just find some on a dusty shelf at the back of the store, up high , left hand side.

   They will be by the storm sash locking side supports that were used to keep the storms open on mild days in the spring.

   ;-)

   They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
4. 
   marv | Jan 01, 2008 08:30pm | #4

   http://houseofantiquehardware.com/s.nl;jsessionid=0a00144a1f4381671f26b03e4790aec8eb7a280e1560.e3eSbNmQaheLe34Pa38Ta38Lbhz0?sc=12&category=90

    

   House of antique hardware

   You get out of life what you put into it......minus taxes.

   Marv

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   Disputantum | Jan 01, 2008 08:34pm | #5

   Thanks for the help everyone. I ordered two sets of prenumbered valve tags from a place called Brimar.ne sutor ultra crepidam

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   DianeA | Jan 01, 2008 08:37pm | #6

   You can get some Original unused Arco tacks here as well. I used them on my replacement screens for my 1912 bungalow

   http://www.wmjrigby.com/index.php?cat_id=89&nav_tree=10,23,89

   Diane

6. 
   DanH | Jan 01, 2008 10:46pm | #7

   Used to be available at any decent hardware store. Probably not anymore, though, since wood screens disappeared with the Edsel.

   If your view never changes you're following the wrong leader