UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS COME: [drop title, followed by a partly printed document, completed in manuscript, granting Letters Patent (No. 259.990) to “Stephen M. Allen of Duxbury, Massachusetts,” for an alleged new and useful improvement in “Wood Grinders for Making Paper Pulp,” signed by Secretary of the Interior Henry M. Teller and Commissioner of Patents E.M. Marble, June 22, 1882, and with a printed two-page description and full-page lithographed diagram of the invention, bound with the signed Letters Patent by the seal ribbon]. Cut, 1 7/8 x 4 inches, of the Patent Office Building framed by the title.