Beautiful matchbook, and I’ve no idea what they did. Except that whatever they did, it was reliable and dependable.
1920s: The Birth of a Distributor
On August 8, 1924, George Van Waters and Nat Rogers filed incorporation papers in Olympia, Washington. The small firm sold paint, raw materials, caustic soda, soda ash, cotton linters, dry colors for paint, and denatured alcohol. Their willingness to buy—and sell, for profit—new types of materials helped the company grow.
