I wonder what the thinking was regarding manufacturers putting such elaborate cast plates on their equipment, they must have been costly to produce even though labour was much cheaper back them but it was still relative to the costs at the time. I doubt they were thinking that in a hundred years time it might be important to anybody.
G'day
Norm and
GeoffI am chaffing at the bit here...
My best guess is that makers' plates and agencies' plates were a natural
progression from
attestation in letter writing!
They were
statements of importance!Of course "Yours Faithfully" carried the baggage of
religious faith.
The faith was about the product of man's labour.
It was that important, it was in the image of deities or a deity!
I have seen makers' and agencies' plates from the earliest days of
garden machinery. They reflect this pride in human endeavour.
Oh, I should mention, that makers plates originated when calling cards
were the go, in a World without phones or the internet.
They acted as a proud statement
and advertisement!
Where do you get it? Whom do you contact?
Cheers--------------------
Jack
