Description
Tender with some tattering as good evidence of age and originality, yet nicely displayable with lots of eye appeal, this approximately 10 X 13 inch, July 16, 1864 weekly issue of The Scientific American is complete and contains an account of George Custer’s U. S. Patent improved horseshoe design. An appealing design line drawing is presented over the bold heading CUSTER’S HORSE-SHOE with an accompanying description of the design and intended improvement over the old standard design. The little-known George Armstrong Custer effort in the patent arena has been largely forgotten and lost in time due to a subsequent credit transcription error in 1870 U. S. Census records. Very simply the name of George A. Custer was mistakenly transcribed in a research reference as George C Custer. This simple transcription inaccuracy from the original record led to a conclusion published in Mike O’Keefe’s Custer, the Seventh Cavalry & the Little Big Horn that the patent was not issued by George A. Custer but another George Custer. A look at renderings of original hand written census records will show that George A. Custer was the only George Custer with a Monroe, Michigan address as provided in official U. S. Patent documents. (This offering will come with convincing research notes with respect to the above.) Framed up or simply laid out with Civil War or Western Indian War material, this piece will add A neat piece of Americana!
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