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UNUSUAL PIECE NEEDS IDENTIFYING

I purchased this tool at an auction, but no one knows what it was or what it was used for. There is no company name, with a patent date of 1860, maybe. The total height is 38-inches, the width is 11-inches. The corkscrew turns by lifting the catch.

-William McCormick, 4656 Howlett Hill Rd., Marcellus, NY 13108-9731

ANTIQUE ROWING MACHINE?

This photo was sent in by Warren Paulson. He would like help identifying this piece, its manufacturer and use. He can be contacted at 6910 Argyle Rd., Calendonia, IL 61011.

FURTHER COMMENTS ON OKLAHOMA THRESHER'

The picture of the piece of equipment in the February 2001 issue of Farm Collector (Unusual Museum Piece Resembles Thresher), is what is left of a combine dating from the twenties or thirties. It does resemble a thresher because that is the way many early combines were made. The opening on the front of the combine is where the header would deposit the cut grain into the threshing mechanism. The header could have been between ten and twenty feet in width, depending on the capacity of the threshing mechanism. There would have been a grain tank or bagging platform on the far side, under the spout. It looks like the rear separator part of the combine may be missing. There would have been an engine mounted over the single front wheel to power the machine. It would have been pulled around the field with a tractor. Some of the earlier combines were pulled in the field with a team of horses. I'm sending a picture of an early Case Combine and a 1925 Case 12-20 tractor I own that might be similiar to the combine in Oklahoma.

-Herb Wessel, 2200 Fairmount Rd., Hampstead, MD 21074-1308

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