Posted 10 years ago
TheGateKee…
(222 items)
The automatic farm gate patented by Joseph E. Stong, of Newton Brook, Ontario, Canada. Patent no. 141,900 dated August 19, 1873. The last photo is a model gate that sold at auction in 2005. Evidently two configurations of the gate were available, or an enterprising farmer simply re-worked the gate to suit his own idea. I restored the gate to allow both options by simply replacing the upper beam. My collection now includes a sample of each of the three Stong gate patents.
Added go-with advertising card 1/31/2015. (3rd photo)
