1866 Weed Letter to Singer Regarding Howe License and patent use.
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1866 Weed Letter to Singer Regarding Howe License and patent use.
It never ceases to amaze me what comes up for sale on the auction site...
This was listed as a "1866 Letter-WFFD Sewing Machine Company" letter
Once I started reading I just made my bid and hoped....
NOBODY else bid so I got this for under $10 (including shipping)!!!!!
The penmanship is amazing.
(I will scan it in the morning)
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This was listed as a "1866 Letter-WFFD Sewing Machine Company" letter
Once I started reading I just made my bid and hoped....
NOBODY else bid so I got this for under $10 (including shipping)!!!!!
The penmanship is amazing.
(I will scan it in the morning)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]508047[/ATTACH]
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The cool folks on Needlebar are helping to read it also.
"Singer Mnfg Co,
Gentlemen, In accordance with Sct 8 of the licence granted us by Howe et al to build sewing machines under certain Patents, we(?) have produced a machine, specimen of which has this day been sent you by Adams express for your approval, which please send us as early as practicable & oblige.
Yours Very Truly,
(?)
Secy (Secretary)"
Is the current thought.
Here is a clean scan.
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and when we turned it over we saw that there is the "Ghost" of another document stained into the back!!!
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"Singer Mnfg Co,
Gentlemen, In accordance with Sct 8 of the licence granted us by Howe et al to build sewing machines under certain Patents, we(?) have produced a machine, specimen of which has this day been sent you by Adams express for your approval, which please send us as early as practicable & oblige.
Yours Very Truly,
(?)
Secy (Secretary)"
Is the current thought.
Here is a clean scan.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]508079[/ATTACH]
and when we turned it over we saw that there is the "Ghost" of another document stained into the back!!!
[ATTACH=CONFIG]508080[/ATTACH]
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I agree with the Art. But the name could be L.S. something. The last letter certainly could be a "t". That's the way the t was made in "Art." Sometimes letters were made differently back then.
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Yes they were. The more I look at it the more I think it is probably FL. I stand by CLARK. He did the downstroke of the k and continued it under the name. "T's" as illustrated in the "art" often ended with that small upstroke on the end.
Last edited by Cogito; 01-30-2015 at 06:17 AM.
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Yes, my husband makes his F like that - with the bottom going around backwards. But that would be a lower case F, and I doubt there would be a lower case F there. That makes it an "L".
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