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Colorado Nut

Accession Number

1676.2022.1

Object Name

Colorado Nut

Created

05/08/2022

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

05/08/2022

Brief Description

Colorado Nut with 6 holes

Materials

Aluminium Alloy

Dimensions

4.5(L) x 2.8(W) cms

Number Of Objects

1

Inscription Description

"COLORADO NUT 1"

Colour

silver

Maker

Sibley & Roos

Object Production Place

USA

Provenance

The story goes that American climber, Royal Robbins, came over to the UK in the 1960’s and found British climbers festooned with their newly created ‘nuts’…Acorns, M.O.A.C.s and hexagonals so he took a bunch of them home to show his mates and the nut revolution began in the USA.
Billy Roos and Paul Sibley seem to have been the first to create the American ‘nut’
“we were the first in the US to manufacture climbing nuts….the Brits were clearly first, with MOACs and some hexes. We basically copied the hexes”
Sibley and Roos started production in 1968 using the name of the state in which they lived as their product logo.
Hexagonals seem to have been the mainstay of the range, though we understand there may have been other products. The company didn’t last very long and we are not sure of the date when
“ The combination of not wanting to spend 8 hours a day on the chop, saw and drill press….we just let the company go. Hey, we had girlfriends with trust funds, so we didn’t really need to work that hard!!”
So Colorado nuts came and went pretty quickly, making them a collector’s item if nothing else.
This one was kindly posted over from the US by our good friend, Art McCarthy.

Acquisition Method

Donated by Art McCarthy

Acquisition Date

05/08/2022

Condition Check Date

05/08/2022

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

05/08/2022

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