1807 Copper Engraving Flax Brake Heckle Scutcher Farm Machinery Agriculture TCF1 YCG1 This is an original 1918

This is an original 1918 black and white print ad for trucks by the General Motors Truck Company of Pontiac

2 of a limited edition of 800 copies

It is estimated that the equivalent of the entire world population is transported by the Otis Elevator Company every three to nine days

26 x 22 cm

Please also note that there are a few small dark spots in the margins of this piece

1807 Copper Engraving Flax Brake Heckle Scutcher Farm Machinery Agriculture TCF1 YCG1 This is an original 1918"Apparatus for Dressing Flax" This is an original 1807 black and white copper engraving of a flax hand brake that is used to break and separate the boon or core from the flax (figs. 1 and 2), a flax foot brake (fig. 3), a beating or scrutching machine (fig. 4), a flax heckle used to straighten the fibers of flax (fig. 5), a flax rippling comb used to separate the bolls from the flax seed (fig. 6), a flax stock and scutcher (fig. 9), and other farm