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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Clamshell press. Fixed vertical bed with toggle-activated hinged platen. Known in Europe as 'Boston Presses,' after the city in which the pioneers developed this style of press, namely Daniel Treadwell, Stephen Ruggles and William Golding (Golding & Company), who produced the Pearl, (1869) and the Golding Jobber (1880). The Peerless Press was first manufactured by the Globe Manufacturing Company of Palmyra, New York, in 1875. Cropper, Charlton & Co., who commenced trading in the early 1890's either copied the patents after they expired or purchased the rights to them. To add confusion, another Nottingham manufacturer, H.S. Cropper & Co, produced the Minerva, a copy of Gordon's improved Franklin Press of 1862 plus another called the Cropperette! A. Morphitt, of the Empress Machine Works likewise produced the Empress and Eagle Platens plus the Eaglet, a copy of the Peerless. The Planet and the America were other Peerless clones.
Additional details courtesy Nicholas Smith
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