I’m attaching some photos of a salesman’s sample of a mower that was owned by my grandfather, David Thompson Clarke. His sales territory was eastern Washington state. No one ever mentioned what company he worked for and the mower has no identification on it except for the numbers “206” cast on the frame. I was born in 1939 and the mower was just a toy when I was a kid. It’s a magnificent model and I am hoping that you can look at some of the details and figure out who made it and when that model would have been for sale.

It turns out that the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, Nebraska, has a full size Milwaukee No. 5 chain drive mower. So I recently had a friend, who is also a professional photographer, take pictures that clearly show the details of my chain drive mechanism. The Stuhr people sent me pictures of their mower. I can tell that their machine is quite a bit newer than mine because they have the attached toolbox and the holder for the oil can. The lid of the toolbox says “MILWAUKEE HARVESTER, CO. MILWAUKEE, WIS.” And on the frame, “No 5.”