(SCIENCE ENGINEERING) Pair of patents for improvements in b

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(SCIENCE & ENGINEERING.) Pair of patents for improvements "in breech-loading fire arms." Each 6 or 7 leaves of varied size bound by ribbon to a total size of 16 x 10 inches, each including a certificate with commissioner's signature and embossed paper seal, partly-printed cover sheet with secretarial signatures, one or two original inked drawings on architectural vellum, and a printed description of the invention; minor wear, partial separations at folds to the second printed description. Washington, 1868 and 1869

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The first was issued to William Morgenstern of Hartford, CT on 23 June 1868, and the other to Valentine Fogerty of Boston on 2 February 1869. Six years later Fogerty went on to greater fame for his patent of the first American nail-clipper.