DEERE, JOHN (1804-86) American Inventor & Businessman; Founder of Deere & Company; Invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837

Original Steel Engraving, 7 ¾” x 10 ½” overall, with a printed facsimile signature beneath a 3 ¼” x 4” image of Deere, imprinted “Eng[raved] by H.B. Hall & Sons, 13 Barclay St., N.Y.”  From a biographical work, published in 1876.

Seldom-seen and in nearly pristine condition.