Lacquer is Best!

2024-09-03T16:48:11-04:00

Color print advertisement for lacquer manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company. The advertisement features an illustration of a wooden doll and a silhouette of a grand piano. The accompanying text lists some attributes of Hercules lacquers. This advertisement appeared in Industrial Finishing, Products Finishing, and Organic Finishing.

Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) initially specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders and subsequently diversified its business to encompass a variety of industrial products, including pine and paper chemicals, synthetics, pigments, polymers, and cellulose.