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Scythe rifle

Scythe rifle

Summary

A tool for sharpening scythes; also called a scythestone.

Digest of Patents Issued by the United States, 558; Fessenden, Complete Farmer and Rural Economist, 324.

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A Digest of Patents, Issued by the United States, from 1790 to January 1, 1839: Published by Act of Congress, under the Superintendence of the Commissioner of Patents, Henry L. Ellsworth. To Which Is Added the Present Law relating to Patents. Washington DC: Peter Force, 1840.

Fessenden, Thomas G. The Complete Farmer and Rural Economist; Containing a Compendious Epitome of the Most Important Brances of Agricultural and Rural Economy. 4th ed. Boston: Otis, Broaders, and Co., 1839.

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Invoice, J. F. Scribner to Cahoon, Carter & Co., 16 June 1836

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