US Patent No. 586713 Bow by HC Peters July 2 1897 Hawaii Islanders The date itself is the

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US Patent No. 586713 Bow by HC Peters July 2 1897 Hawaii Islanders The date itself is theUs Patent No. 586713 Bow by Hc Peters July 2 1897 H. C. Peters' inventor's diagram traces the limbs and grip of an archer's bow at the close of the nineteenth century, when target archery still moved in the gentlemanly cadence of lawn meets and the line drawing carried the quiet authority of a tillered stave understood by hand. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for