US Patent No. 45378 Game Counter by G Deimel May 26 1891 framed lighting rendered with the three stars

rendered with the three stars he wore as the first lieutenant general since Washington

The Union Soldier's Discharge Certificate 1865 — printed in the closing months of the war

The kind of artifact that smells faintly of newsprint and bunting

and edges that turned a daily chore into a small civic ceremony

a debt of liberty marked paid in the sober arithmetic of the Great War

US Patent No. 45378 Game Counter by G Deimel May 26 1891 framed lighting rendered with the three starsUs Patent No. 45378 Game Counter by G Deimel May 26 1891 Deimel's schematic of rotating dials and numbered wheels belongs to an age when scorekeeping was a mechanical ritual, the click of a thumb lever standing in for paper and pencil. The line drawing reads like a pocket sized adversary to forgetfulness, devised when the parlor and the ballfield alike demanded an honest tally. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American