Morrison & Fay Mfg. Co. Bryan Sulky Plow Seat & Footrest
Pre-1905 Collection, Ohio Cast Iron, Agriculture Implements, SSC Museum Collection Steve Thaman Pre-1905 Collection, Ohio Cast Iron, Agriculture Implements, SSC Museum Collection Steve Thaman

Morrison & Fay Mfg. Co. Bryan Sulky Plow Seat & Footrest

These two cast iron pieces — the seat and footrest from a Bryan Sulky Plow, Improved — are what remained when the plow itself was gone. Made by The Morrison & Fay Mfg. Co. of Bryan, Ohio in the 1880s, the Bryan Sulky was no regional curiosity: in documented field trials it outpulled John Deere's Gilpin, the Casaday, the Syracuse, and the Wiard. This is the iron that carried the man who drove it.

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