Automobile manufacturer (1863-1928) known for his Packard Motor Car Company, founded in 1899 in Warren, Ohio. ADS signed “J. W. Packard,” one page, 5.25 x 7.5, The New York & Ohio Co. letterhead, March 11, 1891. Partly-printed order form submitted to the Ohio Pulley & Machine Co., filled out in Packard's own hand. Packard requests "One wood-split pulley, 24 x 6 x 2 1/8 flat face." In fine condition, with a light diagonal bend, and faint ghostlike impressions of writing from another item that must have been in contact with this at one time. The New York & Ohio Co. was an electrical manufacturing company owned by James Ward Packard and his brother William Doud Packard. The first Packard motor car would be built at the New York and Ohio plant in 1899, and the brothers incorporated the New York and Ohio Automobile Company in 1900. This would be renamed as the Packard Motor Car Company in 1902, with James Packard as its president. Packard's autograph is extremely rare in any form, with this very early example being just the third we have offered.
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