1866 Weed Letter to Singer Regarding Howe License and patent use.
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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) [ATTACH=CONFIG]508047[/ATTACH] |
Very cool! It's amazing what survives when it comes to paper. What is that? 1 year after the Civil War? Now if only my eyes were good enough to read it.
Rodney |
Neat! Especially when you have machines of that era too (Weed and Singer)
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Nice old document.
CD in Oklahoma |
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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. [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] |
Art. For Article 8 vs. Section
License not licence.....if we are going to be precise. :) (JL or S)? CLARK.....could also be FL.....pretty confident about CLARK |
Steve, you find the coolest things!
Jeanette |
Originally Posted by Cogito
(Post 7068939)
Art. For Article 8 vs. Section
License not licence.....if we are going to be precise. :) (JL or S)? CLARK.....could also be FL.....pretty confident about CLARK |
Originally Posted by maviskw
(Post 7069738)
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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Originally Posted by Cogito
(Post 7069750)
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.
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