SteveH

It never ceases to amaze me what comes up for sale on the auction site...

This was listed as a "1866 Letter-WFFD Sewing Machine Company" letter

Once I started reading I just made my bid and hoped....

NOBODY else bid so I got this for under $10 (including shipping)!!!!!

The penmanship is amazing.

(I will scan it in the morning)

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Rodney

Very cool! It's amazing what survives when it comes to paper. What is that? 1 year after the Civil War? Now if only my eyes were good enough to read it.
Rodney

Macybaby

Neat! Especially when you have machines of that era too (Weed and Singer)

ThayerRags

Nice old document.

CD in Oklahoma

SteveH

The cool folks on Needlebar are helping to read it also.

"Singer Mnfg Co,


Gentlemen, In accordance with Sct 8 of the licence granted us by Howe et al to build sewing machines under certain Patents, we(?) have produced a machine, specimen of which has this day been sent you by Adams express for your approval, which please send us as early as practicable & oblige.
Yours Very Truly,
(?)
Secy (Secretary)"

Is the current thought.

Here is a clean scan.
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and when we turned it over we saw that there is the "Ghost" of another document stained into the back!!!
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Cogito

Art. For Article 8 vs. Section
License not licence.....if we are going to be precise.
(JL or S)? CLARK.....could also be FL.....pretty confident about CLARK

Jeanette Frantz

Steve, you find the coolest things!

Jeanette

maviskw

I agree with the Art. But the name could be L.S. something. The last letter certainly could be a "t". That's the way the t was made in "Art." Sometimes letters were made differently back then.

Cogito

Yes they were. The more I look at it the more I think it is probably FL. I stand by CLARK. He did the downstroke of the k and continued it under the name. "T's" as illustrated in the "art" often ended with that small upstroke on the end.

maviskw

Yes, my husband makes his F like that - with the bottom going around backwards. But that would be a lower case F, and I doubt there would be a lower case F there. That makes it an "L".