Description: Antique 19th century handwritten document / ledger page / receipt for "blooms" shipped by Western Transport Co to R. Miller and Sold to H.S. Spang and Son. Blooms - The final product of smelting, not including ash and slag. A rough, often spongy mass containing iron flakes and nodules that have sintered together, mixed with bits of slag, partially reduced ore, unburnt fuel and parts of furnace clay (from the Pyrites website) These blooms were evidently then sold to (or on behalf of) the other companies listed on the ledger - J.B. Buchannon & Son; John Adams, G.B. Engles and Samuel Edmiston The document is undated, but the HS Spang & Son company was founded in 1817. It changed names in 1845, so this document dates somewhere between those dates.There is a handwritten note on the back, contemporary, in pencil, which states "Removed from 1841 Papers & Letters" which is in line with these dates, as well as the fact that this was purchased as part of a large lot with other pre-Civil War documents. H.S. Spang & Son existed in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Price: 32.5 USD
Location: North Aurora, Illinois
End Time: 2024-12-07T00:56:52.000Z
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States