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Very Cool!!! Congrats!!!Unusual keyhole configuration only text is patent date. Brass and really well made.View attachment 2174720View attachment 2174721
Thanks Red Coat,Interesting padlock. US patents take their date from the Patents Bulletin, habitually published on Tuesdays. Occasionally, such as over the Christmas holiday period or for other administrative reasons, publication was delayed and the backlog was published the following Tuesday. However, there were no patents issued for 23 February 1871 since it was a Thursday, so that canāt be the actual patent date.
I thought it might be a āPatent Pendingā date but the āantique-padlocks.comā website clearly shows the same lock with that date as āPatādā.
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Occasionally, patentees have been known to ājump the gunā, using the date they were informed their application had been successful although not yet published in the bulletin and I suspect thatās the case here.
The actual application for this padlock design was made on 10 December 1870, and it was granted on 29 August 1871 as patent number 118473. It was granted to Hermon Nelsen of Jerome, New York although the actual signature looks more like āHerman Nelsenā. Probably, this is a typo error in the print and āHermanā is more likely to be the correct spelling.
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Thanks Red Coat, interesting to find it has a bogus Patent date on it. Your gift for research continues to amaze me.Interesting padlock. US patents take their date from the Patents Bulletin, habitually published on Tuesdays. Occasionally, such as over the Christmas holiday period or for other administrative reasons, publication was delayed and the backlog was published the following Tuesday. However, there were no patents issued for 23 February 1871 since it was a Thursday, so that canāt be the actual patent date.
I thought it might be a āPatent Pendingā date but the āantique-padlocks.comā website clearly shows the same lock with that date as āPatādā.
View attachment 2174741
Occasionally, patentees have been known to ājump the gunā, using the date they were informed their application had been successful although not yet published in the bulletin and I suspect thatās the case here.
The actual application for this padlock design was made on 10 December 1870, and it was granted on 29 August 1871 as patent number 118473. It was granted to Hermon Nelsen of Jerome, New York although the actual signature looks more like āHerman Nelsenā. Probably, this is a typo error in the print and āHermanā is more likely to be the correct spelling.
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interesting lock, haven't seen one like that before, great saveUnusual keyhole configuration only text is patent date. Brass and really well made.View attachment 2174720View attachment 2174721