11-24-2013, 03:36 PM
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Good eye!
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Originally Posted by Michael B
The rest of the words on the photo appear to be H & B Am Mch Co. - probably H & B American Machine Company.
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Michael, Very good deciphering job...I have an 1840 letter in that squiggly long hand that talks about a football game between Harvard and Dartmouth...which is hard to make out...maybe you could decipher it...
https://archive.org/stream/ringspinn...ge/n1/mode/2up
BTW...there is a lot of references to H & B American Machine Company on google...seems to have been big on cotton machines...link above
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