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Waving the flag

By Robert H. Tallman

Route 5, Box 185 Harbeson, Delaware 19951

On April 1, 1929, the Oliver Plow Company merged with the Hart-Parr Tractor Company, Nichols and Shepard Threshing Machine Company, and American Seeding Machine Company to form the Oliver Farm Equipment Company. At that time they created a flag as an emblem to symbolize the new company (as shown on the fly sheet of an old Oliver Plow catalog). This emblem was used for several years until the first Oliver shield was adopted.

We don't know whether actual flags were ever made or whether they were just used as a printed emblem-at least we've never run across any actual flags. We would surely like to know if any collector might have one.  

Mr. and Mrs. Norman D. Clark, P.O. Box 27, Honey Grove, PA 17035, and Mr. and Mrs. John Clow, Jr., 703 Sonne Drive, Annapolis, MD 21401 shown w...

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