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Original Patent Model for Shutters to Cover the Port-Holes of Civil War Iron Clad Vessels....
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Description
Original Patent Model for Shutters to Cover the Port-Holes of Civil War Iron Clad Vessels. Wood. 4.5" x 9" x 2.25". This fantastic patent model is a section of B. H. Bartol's larger invention for "mounting a gun on a carriage arranged to traverse suitable tracks on a supplementary carriage" on ironclad vessels for which he was granted Patent No. 38,089. The patent model illustrates a design for armored shutters to cover the gun openings and is complete with the original Patent office tag reading "No. 38,089 1863 / B. H. Bartol / Shutters for the / Port-Holes of / Iron Clad Vessels/ Patented April 7th / 1863". A copy of the full text of the original patent is included. It is unknown whether Bartol's gun mounting system was ever used. This fantastic piece is from the noted Petersen Collection. In 1979 Cliff Petersen purchased the remaining patent models, some 800 crates, from the collection of Sir Henry Wellcome. In 1898 Wellcome purchased 150,000 from the United States patent office, spanning inventions devised from 1790 and 1898.Auction Info
2009 December Signature Arms & Militaria Including Civil War Auction #6021 (go to Auction Home page)
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December, 2009
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