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:shrug:THE OAKLAND??

doublet2a

New member
Appears to be copper/brass
It says........


THE OAKLAND
PATD.
SEPT.&4, 1901
MANF'D BY
THE J.A. GRAY CO.
S.F. CAL
Thanks in advance for any help


HH TIM :twodetecting:
 
but it's hard to find what "The Oakland" was without a patent number. There is no information available on the U.S. Patent Office site for Sept. 1, 1901, but there were 417 patents issued on September 24th. Unfortunately, for a date that old you can only search the patents by issue date and patent number. Here's the page: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=isd%2F9%2F24%2F1901&d=PALL

Good Luck!
 
You can search by date, number or name. I found lots of J.A. GRAYs but not with that date for "filed on" or "issued on".
 
Most patents are filed by individuals who are either employed by the company they are inventing the product for or, most likely, later selling the rights to a company to produce it. So it's not surprising if "The Oakland" can't be found by searching patents by J.A. Gray, unless J.A. Gray himself was issued the patent.

Isn't trying to solve these Whatzits fun? My wife does Sudoku puzzles, and I do this. :laugh:
 
Maybe a picture would help??
 
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