One for the Ages

March 2007
Leslie C. McManus 
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Cover of an 1880 Rumely catalog Graham Sellers found at Auburn, Ind. The seals indicate an award bestowed on M. & J. Rumely by the Indiana State Board of Agriculture for "the best threshing machine in 1871."
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Horse-drawn Rumely portable steam engine pulls the seniority card

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When Rumely collectors gather, it's the big boys - like the 30-60 OilPull or the equally massive Advance steamers - that draw crowds. But it was a comparatively modest Rumely that generated buzz at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in 2006. In that case, age was the trump card.

'This is the oldest known piece of Rumely equipment,' explained Graham Sellers as he showed off his horse-drawn portable steam engine. Manufactured by M. & J. Rumely in La Porte, Ind., the no. 2 was built before 1882, when Meinrad Rumely bought out his brother, John, and changed the company name to M. Rumely Co.

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