Ball's patent safety pump, for supplying steam boilers with water

by Ames Manufacturing Company

$350 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Chicopee, Mass. 1856 . Broadside on extremely thin paper, approx. 14 x 9¾ , with a wood-engraved illustration of the pump, a description thereof, and 3 testimonials at the bottom, all dated September, 1856. Some wrinkling and creasing, but in all, and under the circumstances, very good. The broadside is on tissue paper and as such, a remarkable survival. OCLC amazingly finds one at the Henry Ford Museum although not noting the paper on which it is printed , and no others. Item #57521

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