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Figure 1 10. — Ne Plus Ultra of about 1867. Another of the 

 interesting hand-turned chainstitch machines of the late 

 1850s and 1860s was patented by O.L. Reynolds. The 

 baster plates and the handle on the wheel are missing on this 

 machine, but an interesting shield and draped-tlag pattern 

 is painted on the base. 

 Another machine of this type has the following inscription 



stamped on the baster plate: "Ne Plus Ultra, Patent Applied 

 For. 174, O.L. Reynolds, Patentee & Manufacturer, Dover 

 N.H." Reynold's patent model, March 30, 1858, bears the 

 serial number 110, indicating that the machine illustrated 

 here — which bears the serial number 26 — was manufactured 

 before the patent was obtained. (Smithsonian photo 

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