c. 1920s to 1930s McCormick-Deering Binder

 This binder was made by International Harvester Company in Chicago, Illinois, probably sometime in the late 1920s or 1930s. It has a list of seven patents, including:

1041968, published October 22, 1912, which you can view here; 

1234718, published July 31, 1917, which you can view here;

1272711, published July 16, 1918, which you can view here;

1328781, published January 20, 1920, which you can view here; 1349435, published August 10, 1920, which you can view here;
1464736, published August 14, 1923, which you can view here; and
1632164, published June 14, 1927, which you can view here.

You can see a 2 minute and 26 second video (with some photos) of a 1920s McCormick-Deering binder in action by clicking or touching here. For a 3 minute and 17 second video of another binder being used for harvesting oats, click or touch here.

 Inside a metal container on the back of this binder is a small number of binder twine labels, including the one pictured below. This binder twine was made by International Harvester Company in Chicago in 1955.