(SCIENCE ENGINEERING) Medals photographs and circular of Ve

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(SCIENCE & ENGINEERING.) Medals, photographs, and circular of Vermont inventor Reuben Daniels. 6 items in one box, circular a bit worn, otherwise condition very strong. Vp, 1850-69 and undated

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Reuben Daniels (1804-1876) was a successful machinist and manufacturer in Woodstock, VT with a talent for invention. Offered here are:
3 medals engraved by the American Institute of New York to Daniels for his inventions, each 2 inches across: "Reuben Daniels for a Wool Picker, 1850" (silver, in original case); "Daniels & Raymond for a superior granular fuel cutter, 1855" (silver, in original case); "Daniels Machine Co. for a Cider Press & Cider Mill, 1869" (bronze).
Cased tintype portrait, hand-colored, presumably of Daniels.
Carte-de-visite photograph of the Daniels Cider Mill by Henry Cushing of Woodstock.
2-page illustrated circular advertising "Daniels' Patent Granular Fuel," 1852.