The Monarch Junior

The Monarch Junior iHorn is made from a 1921 Monarch Company of Dayton, Ohio price marking machine.  It is in wonderful condition and is a one of a kind iHorn.  Frederick Kohnle had an interest in doing things better and more efficiently.  As a clerk in a St. Louis department store, he price marked merchandise by marking with a pen or pencil.  On August 6th, 1890, he applied for a patent on a strip ticket that was 3" long and 3/4" wide.  Kohnle founded the Climax Tag Company in 1891 and contracted with a company in Toledo Ohio to build the first marking machine.  Finally, in 1901, the first machine was produced and the company became Monarch.  In 1921, sales totaled $350,000.  In 1968, Monarch was purchased by Pitney Bowes Inc .  Today, a version of the company remains in business as a subsidiary of Avery Dennison.  The Monarch Junior represents ingenuity and the long standing reality that there is a better mousetrap.  So go build it!