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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: PFSchaffner on July 22, 2015, 12:12:39 PM

Title: handled thing (1875)
Post by: PFSchaffner on July 22, 2015, 12:12:39 PM

This one doesn't really count as a wotsit, since I now know (or think I know)
what it is, though when I bought it last weekend I had no idea. 1875 patent
date.



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Title: Re: handled thing (1875)
Post by: Lostmind on July 22, 2015, 04:09:35 PM

Hmmmmm? ( no idea )

Title: Re: handled thing (1875)
Post by: PFSchaffner on July 22, 2015, 04:45:37 PM

It's nothing very exciting, but has a good feel to it. A file holder specifically for small triangular files, as shown below, supplied with a modern file. Though the patent drawing is a bit different, the relevant patent seems to be 167,731, obtained on Sept 14, 1875, by H. Baumgartel (lovely name) of Sturgis, Michigan; see https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US167731.pdf (https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US167731.pdf)

Oddly, I bought this thing in Scotts, Michigan, just down the road from Sturgis, MI -- though neither the buyer nor the seller come from there.

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Title: Re: handled thing (1875)
Post by: Lewill2 on July 22, 2015, 04:58:15 PM

Now that is pretty nice. Never seen one before, great find.

Title: Re: handled thing (1875)
Post by: HeelSpur on July 23, 2015, 06:18:49 AM

Nice, would of never guessed.

Title: Re: handled thing (1875)
Post by: oldtools on July 23, 2015, 06:26:39 PM

Cool Tool!!