January 2007-Charleston What's It! Frank Take a look!

Ian · Last edited by Ian on Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:13 am; edited 1 time in total

When we headed to Charleston, we were all invited to hunt a nice yard downtown. Before Frank found his Slave Tag, he and I both found this interesting piece. I could only speculate as to what it was.

It has a patent date of July 6 1875 stamped on the front of it.

WHAT IS THIS THING!?(scroll down for answer)

So, after moving in this weekend, I had to pocket this thing more than 5 times so that I wouldn't lose it. I wanted to know what it was! Tonight was the night to find out the true Identity.

I went over to Google. They have a feature to search by Patent Dates. I entered in "July 6 1875" and low and behold it was the first result listed.

It's an IMPROVED Picture Hanger!!!

Here's the original patent information from the United States Patent Office:

While it doesn't show the EXACT item, it does show the variation of the design in Figure 3. You know how the Charlestonians have to have their stuff nice and decorated...

-Ian Very Happy

CJ Tuffy · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:10 am Post subject: Nice !!

That's a very fancy one. Way to go on that find. I bet that's made of brass and would clean up nice. You can use it in your new place.

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