Martin Donnelly, of Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools, Avoca, New York, has let me know that Charles Thurber's 1857 and 1860 patent 'Kaligraph', in its original shipping crate, sold for $40,250 (including buyer's premium) at an auction in Nashua, New Hampshire, on Saturday. The anticipated price range was $6000 to $12,000. Here is my post about the auction from a month ago. The artist's impression of Thurber I used in that post showed, quite clearly, an earlier Thurber invention (and captioned as his "patent printer"), which is explained in my 'Truth about Thurber' post here.
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