1890s patent plate

[93vector]

1890's patent plate

Found this a couple days ago and I am very curious what it would have been from. Anyone familiar with how to identify products from a patent date? I tried some searches online but didn't come up with anything.

Thanks

 

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[Limitool]

I'm not 1000% sure but I'm "pretty sure".... Those dates correlate with patents filed and owned by a gentlemen named Amandus Metzger. He lived in New York in the county of Schenectady. He interest appears to have been in the electrical world. He held various patents in that field with those dates. I checked out 4 of them and they all referenced him. Sooooooo..... with that said I'd say the tag you found belonged on "something" electrically related. Mr. Metzger was all over the map on items he developed electrically. I'll try and nail it down further later with the tag ID #. I happen to own an engineering U.S. patent (7073241) and it was fun helping you..... Brad

 

[ModernMiner]

Well done Limitool.

 

[DocBeav]

Good job on the ID Brad!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Very interesting find congrats !

 

[93vector]

That's great! Thank you very much for your research time. At least now I have some type of idea

 

[Limitool]

That's great! Thank you very much for your research time. At least now I have some type of idea

Mr. 93.... I tried and tried today to nail down possibly what the plate was attached to but I failed. I believe I'm now in a "box" and have to regroup. Now listen... I might be wrong with Mr. Metzger being the patent holder. I wrote down a lot of names using the 1st date and then proceeded to the next. And I crossed off the names that didn't follow the next patent dates. After the fourth one I just "assumed" Mr. Metzger was one smart fellow. So if this is right it was attached to something electrical.

Here's where I believe I could be wrong... Why would all these different patents be on one item? So I'm now thinking this pertains to one item and as improvements were developed so were the patents.

Gotta ask now.... Where did you find it and how? When found was anything else around it? We could contact the U.S. patent office with the dates you have and see what they respond with. There're much smarter than us on how to use there data base. If interested get back with the info guy.... later, Brad