Jun 21, 2018 - Sale 2483

Sale 2483 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 1,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
HIGH TECH ENGINEERING: PATENT FOR SOLID BODY DUNG FORK MONROE, JAMES. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, as President, granting a patent to Martin Stevens for his improvement "in the mode of making Steel Dung-forks, with four or more tines, without riveting or welding out of a solid Bar of Steel." Countersigned by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. With the 2-page schedule describing Stevens's invention on one vellum leaf, attached with ribbon. 14 1/2x11 inches; folds, paper seal intact. Washington, 16 April 1824