Been looking at a couple of old recoil pads and wondering about their time period and who made them. One is marked Red Head Chicago with a standing duck, and the other is marked TruSport Phila, PA. Both have a little shield near the bottom with Patent No. 105358. U.S. Patent No. 105358 is for a cultivator granted on July 12, 1870, to J.B. Moody?!? None of my old catalogues, H&D Folsom, E.K. Tryon, Stoegers, SD&G, etc. show anything but various Jostam pads, the Goodrich pad, and Silvers pads, with the Hawkins and NoShoc appearing in the 1930s. I don't know what period these RedHead or TruSport pads appeared.
