My uncle Ed owned Kerner Tool and Die. My father Fritz ran it. The shop opened in Erie in 1944 and built die-casting dies and molds for thirty years, until the building burned in 1974.

This is the mark from the company letterhead and the matchbooks, tall K and all, stitched the way a shop cap ought to be. Erie, Penna., spelled the way they spelled it then.

One size, adjustable strap. Embroidered, not printed.