Cool steam engine ID plate

[smokeythecat]

My buddy found this on Monday. It says: Special Steam Pump, Patd Oct 3rd, 1865

A. S. Cameron & Co.

New York

(cannot make out this) Size 2

Any info on the company?

 

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[lairmo]

Pretty cool!!! Ouch on the scratch...lol

 

[lairmo]

Here it is: https://www.bizapedia.com/mo/as-cameron-steam-pump-works.html


Not sure why it's New York though... I played with the pic a bit and thought I saw an S instead of a C...?

I might be wrong....

 

[smokeythecat]

Thanks. Apparently they were in NY before moving to the midwest. It is a little larger than a Civil War belt plate, and as we were looking for a CW site, you know what we first thought. The scratch can be retouched with no issues, if I ever get around to it, that is.

 

[bologna321]

cool find

 

[lairmo]

There is a catalog from New York on ebay... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-19...talog-NEW-YORK-/362519175836?oid=113404908957

 

[smokeythecat]

That's cool. This probably came off a piece of farm machinery. (Think I'll pass on the catalog.) The patent office would have the original prints, but again, too much bother. Thank you for your help.

 

[Icewing]

Check this out
https://books.google.com/books?id=9...rce=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=true

 

[Inspector]

That's a very cool tag/emblem, congrats on the find.

 

[Relicific]

Interesting find

 

[smokeythecat]

Cool brochure Icewing!

 

[dfallis1]

That was a beautiful target. Had me going for a second, the shape and green patina.

 

[Hawks88]

Very nice save. Congrats

 

[smokeythecat]

Darryl found it walking over 3 and a half miles looking for a Confederate camp...we had already found a mile away! But history said they were on the other hill. History was wrong.

 

[dfallis1]

Darryl found it walking over 3 and a half miles looking for a Confederate camp...we had already found a mile away! But history said they were on the other hill. History was wrong.

It doesn't make sense, should have been there. Time for the next wild goose chase, opposite direction. Haha

 

[smokeythecat]

No, it makes sense. No water for the troops they could get to, and no house nearby to hide at.

 

[Possum]

Very cool find Smokey, tell ya friend congrats on a great save!!! "D"

 

[Whyme]

Pretty cool find! Congrats!

 

[smokeythecat]

These are the backs of the two 19th century buttons found on the same property. Nothing much, but better than nothing. Someone had hammered the house in the past.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Sweet relic!