Posted 10 years ago
kanukster
(63 items)
This item is a vintage Pioneer Brand Trapper Nelson Indian Packboard No. 2. The Canadian pat # dates to the late twenties. I believe it's missing the actual pack, which is removable. These where also used with out the pack to haul odd shaped items. One of the first purposely designed or commercially available backpack styles.
Cool!
Here is a link to the patent drawing that shows the actual removable pack.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrevets-patents.ic.gc.ca%2Fopic-cipo%2Fcpd%2Feng%2Fpatent%2F244902%2Fpage%2F244902_19951116_drawings.pdf
Thanks very much for the link 'walksoftly'! I'm going to keep my eye's open for the removable pack section.
You're welcome, glad to help!
Great idea PDAM...done!