Sample Item C1-2

Here is a sample item from the catalog. The text is from page six while the picture is shown on the opposing page (page seven). Every item is pictured in the catalogue.

C1-2: Hayes, Oren T., Hastings, Minnesota: Patent Bevel and Square. Patented January 29,1867. Original Patent Model. Length: 12 Inches. We are especially pleased to be able to offer a small number of patent models in this Edition. These models all came to us from a single source and we believe strongly that the opportunity to purchase artifacts of such historical and technological significance as these is not likely to present itself again soon, if ever. Hastings, Minnesota, is situated on the West bank of the upper Mississippi River just directly South of Minneapolis. The name of Oren T. Hayes, the patentee of this tool, is to be found nowhere else in the volumes of information about tools and their makers that line the waIls of this office and provide extra insulation from Western New York winters. But does it really matter who Oren F Hayes was? Isn't it enough to know that he was a dreanier, a thinker, a tinkerer and a believer that things could be made better? And what of this carefully constructed bevel square, angle finder and protractor with its perfectly preserved patent tag? Are these just pieces of mahogany and brass that document an idea that failed? Are they some fool's folly, a waste of time and effort? Or maybe, just maybe, are they the timeless, changeless, vestiges of an idea took flight? Yes, just pieces...pieces of the American Dream. One of a kind. (FINE) $1295.00

Another Patent Model is Item E1-2