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<p>[QUOTE="Rayo56, post: 206999, member: 2022"]Looks like a cast iron casting (could also be cast aluminum) from wooden patterns - maybe the pattern shop that produced the patterns were from PA - hence the Roovers embossing tags that were nailed to the pattern and then were molded into the sand molds that show on the actual casting. I'de research Reedsville Pa for a pattern shop or foundry.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/img_4086-jpg.59937/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>When I was a pattern maker from the 80's to the mid 2000's we always used the metals embossed tags to identify castings instead of using the lead letters that were expensive.</p><p><a href="http://www.tractorpartsforrepairs.com/antique-tractor/embossing-rolls.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tractorpartsforrepairs.com/antique-tractor/embossing-rolls.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.tractorpartsforrepairs.com/gif/162194992179_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.pannier.com/metal-fabrication-marking/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pannier.com/metal-fabrication-marking/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.pannier.com/wp-content/uploads/06p-roovers-embossed-metal-tape.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Rayo56, post: 206999, member: 2022"]Looks like a cast iron casting (could also be cast aluminum) from wooden patterns - maybe the pattern shop that produced the patterns were from PA - hence the Roovers embossing tags that were nailed to the pattern and then were molded into the sand molds that show on the actual casting. I'de research Reedsville Pa for a pattern shop or foundry. [IMG]https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/img_4086-jpg.59937/[/IMG] When I was a pattern maker from the 80's to the mid 2000's we always used the metals embossed tags to identify castings instead of using the lead letters that were expensive. [URL='http://www.tractorpartsforrepairs.com/antique-tractor/embossing-rolls.html'][IMG]http://www.tractorpartsforrepairs.com/gif/162194992179_1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL='http://www.pannier.com/metal-fabrication-marking/'][IMG]http://www.pannier.com/wp-content/uploads/06p-roovers-embossed-metal-tape.jpg[/IMG][/URL][/QUOTE]
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