ID tag... ???

[fd3615]

I found this tag at a construction site... the area has been populated for that last 100 years... there is a school close by, a resort from the late 1800's.. This was found at aprox 14 inches deep.. any ideas.. I thought of a prisoners tag... .with the word " yard " and all but as far as my research tells me there was no jail nor prison in the area..

any ideas.. ??

the reverse is a duplicate image.. the markings are hand tooled and arent lined up the same, yet the inscription is identical

 

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[TheDane]

A patent sign !!

Try googling G.W. Otterson !

 

[dg39]

Check this.
DG

http://www.sewerhistory.org/articles/maint/cleaning.htm

 

[fd3615]

is that a standard patent sign? i have never heard of one

 

[Angelo]

Vacaville Prison?

Railroad Yard?

Otterson Street in Chico?

Not much info from me.

Tony

 

[TheDane]

Maybe not a patent sign, but a machine sign from one of Ottersons inventions.

Seems to be kind of sewer pumps or so !!??

 

[Angelo]

A little more information if it is the G. W. Otterson we are tracking.

Sewer History: Photos and Graphics
Manufactured by The Springfield Engineering Company, Springfield, Ohio, ... Patented by G. W. Otterson on January 4, 1916. U.S. Patent No. 1166713. Sheet 1. ...
www.sewerhistory.org/grfx/maint/swr_veh2.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages
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Tony