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US Patent No. 335579 Field Game Marker by A. Gutzloe February 9 1886 lincoln portrait two years before the gunsUs Patent No. 335579 Field Game Marker by A. Gutzloe February 9 1886 a small, stake driven sentinel from the rough and tumble dawn of American field sports, when boundary lines were still negotiated by gentlemen and groundskeepers. Gutzloe's inventor's diagram renders the marker with the quiet precision of a man convinced the game itself depended on knowing exactly where it ended. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American