Message-ID: <68A99CD5A40C476B848813EF0B0E7871@karenPC> From: "Karen Baumgartner" <krbaumga@pctcnet.net> Subject: Seeking name and use for unknown iron object Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 08:58:56 -0500
The attached photos are of two metal objects that look like brass
knuckles, but aren't. They are used in farming. Our best guess is rope
guides. The size would fit in the palm of your hand, about 3 inches
across. LOUDEN is the manufacturing company.
The Louden Machinery Company had operations in Fairfield, Iowa.
In 1867, William Louden invented a patented hay carrier that made
two-story barns practical. According to one description, Louden's hay
carrier "utilized the already existing hay fork tool but broadened its
use by attaching it to an overhead monorail along which the hay fork and
hay could be moved within a barn."
Source: Wikipedia.org/wiki/Louden_Machinery_Company
There is a Louden catalog online, but this small piece didn't seem to be
in it.
Any help you can give us to name and describe these objects will be
appreciated.
Karen Baumgartner
German Settlement History, Inc
Ogema, Wisconsin