Clark's Patent Lawn Roller

Higganum, CT: Higganum Manufacturing Corporation, 1880. Very good. Small broadside, n. d. (1880s); 9 1/4 x 6; off-white stock, printed in black and illustrated with a wood engraving; mild age-toning to margins; small repair to verso of upper left corner; in very good condition.The Clark brothers - George Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Lee - founded the Higganum Manufacturing Corporation in 1867, manufacturing agricultural machinery. They would be remembered for employing a large expanse of flat land along the Connecticut River to test out their inventions. Their current lawn roller was said to be made of just one piece, with proprietory, "peculiar" adjustment of the weights and handles - making it easy to operate, with a minimum ammount of labor.