Item #64451 SOMETHING NEW! The William Stoddard Patent Shingle Machine! For Splitting or Riving and Shaving Shingles. Patented Nov. 24th, 1854. May be seen in operation at [supplied in pencil: J. Banister & Co./ Fond du Lac, Wisconsin] [caption title]. Trade, Broadside.

SOMETHING NEW! The William Stoddard Patent Shingle Machine! For Splitting or Riving and Shaving Shingles. Patented Nov. 24th, 1854. May be seen in operation at [supplied in pencil: J. Banister & Co./ Fond du Lac, Wisconsin] [caption title].

Fond du Lac, Wis: Herald Print, [ca. 1856]. Broadside. 25.5 x 20 cm. Printed on blue paper, text within an ornamental border, signed in type at conclusion of text by C.K. Morrill & Co. of Lowell, Mass, dated June 12th, 1855. Old fold lines, but no wear. Not in Wisconsin Imprints Inventory and not found on OCLC. There are only a handful of separate Fond du Lac imprints before 1855, the most notable being a History of the County of Fond du Lac (1854). The weekly Fountain City Herald was published from 1852 to 1856. Item #64451

Price: $350.00

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